# I'm Getting Fat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527 "2001-06-20T22:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/1 "2001-06-20T22:34:18Z")
Ever since I graduated from high school I’ve kept the same weight … right around 120 pounds. It’s ridiculous. I’m one of those people who can eat and eat and eat and I just never gain weight. No matter _what_ I eat. 25 years now and it’s never changed. Except this afternoon when I wieghed myself. 130 pounds. God, I feel so bloated. ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/2 "2001-06-20T22:37:51Z")
Ohh, Ooooohhh! I get to be the first to respond!! :: pauses to gather his thoughts :: Ready? Fuck you!! :: d&r :: Sua ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/3 "2001-06-20T22:43:39Z")
Hey **Euty** , maybe you are starting a new period in your life. Hopefully it won’t cramp your style. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/4 "2001-06-20T22:47:36Z")
Don’t worry, it’s just water. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/5 "2001-06-20T22:53:09Z")
Time to hit the gym, Euty - you’ll be the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the SDMB before we know it 😃 BTW, I am almost twice your weight! OK, I’m over 6 foot, and used to play football (yes, US folks - that’s **your** football]), but it’s still a frightening thought… ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/6 "2001-06-20T23:03:43Z")
Fracking beanpole. 🙂 My bare skeleton would weigh more than that, I’d bet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/7 "2001-06-20T23:22:43Z")
You’re pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/8 "2001-06-20T23:31:35Z")
I used to weigh around 126 for the longest time. Then last year I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and one of the ‘side effects’ of that is weight gain due to slower metabolism. My average weight is now around 146, and man do I feel fat! I know I don’t look “fat”, as a friend said to me, “You’ve filled out a little”, but I hate it. Euty, I feel your pain! ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/9 "2001-06-20T23:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\*Don’t worry, it’s just water. 😃 \*\* …and say it again, and we’ll hold you UNDER water. 2 minutes sound OK? We start counting when the bubbles stop… ---
**Author:** ![maidenunicorn41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@maidenunicorn41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maidenunicorn41)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/10 "2001-06-21T00:09:58Z")
well, I used to feel fat, but have now lost 65 lbs and still losing. And it wasnt water weight either. I feel for those who put on weight, trying hard to keep mine off. and 130 is not fat!!!. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/11 "2001-06-21T01:34:39Z")
Sounds like you might be about the same general dimensions as me. As a teenager and until about 24, I had a 28" waist on my 6’1" frame, and weighed about 140. I’m now 32, and have ballooned to 180 - in other words, normal for my height. Some of it is simply age. My body’s like that of my Scandinavian-American grandfather, who was the same height, weighed 130lb when he married my grandmother at age 24. He eventually filled out, but not until his early 30s. If your demographics are similar, well, we just mature slowly we Northern European types. What it means is that eventually you really do have to start paying attention to what you eat, so you might as well get in good habits now. ---
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/12 "2001-06-21T01:42:05Z")
Don’t worry Euty, it is all muscle 😃 That is what I tell myself, anyway ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/13 "2001-06-21T01:44:11Z")
Wow Euty! When I was a track star, you were almost skinnier than me! Stick-bug people unite! Just don’t stand sideways. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/14 "2001-06-21T01:53:51Z")
Awwwww… poor baby. 10 whole pounds! You **should** feel bloated you disgusting lard ass! Look at yourself you worthless, undisciplined sack of suet. You wouldn’t push away from the table or even exercise moderately and now look where it’s gotten you. 10 extra pounds of hideous fat hanging on you like a lard overcoat. Who could love your hideous face with your beady little pig eyes looking out over grotesquely swollen chipmunk cheeks fatso? Think about what a crappy caretaker you’ve been for the temple that is your body as the sweat dribbles out from undeneath your bulging, hairy man titties and your flabby gut pooches out over your belt. 10 pounds! Who could love you now? Only a hungry lion. You should be caned by a Singaporean Sergeant! NOW! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/15 "2001-06-21T02:12:01Z")
Awwwww… poor baby. 10 whole pounds! You **should** feel bloated you disgusting lard ass! Look at yourself you worthless, undisciplined sack of suet. You wouldn’t push away from the table or even exercise moderately and now look where it’s gotten you. 10 extra pounds of hideous fat hanging on you like a lard overcoat. Who could love your hideous face with your beady little pig eyes looking out over grotesquely swollen chipmunk cheeks fatso? Think about what a crappy caretaker you’ve been for the temple that is your body as the sweat dribbles out from undeneath your bulging, hairy man titties and your flabby gut pooches out over your belt. 10 pounds! Who could love you now? Only a hungry lion. You should be caned by a Singaporean Sergeant! NOW! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/16 "2001-06-21T02:41:58Z")
10 pounds? I gain that much at lunch. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/17 "2001-06-21T02:42:02Z")
MMmmmmm, Euty, I hear ya! I’ve always had a hummingbird metabolism, but recently put on five pounds. I took up bellydancing, and my oh my, vive la difference! :::Euty bellydancing!!!::: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/18 "2001-06-21T04:58:08Z")
Aw, **EutyHoney…** Nothing wrong with being fluffy, not that I think you are anywhere NEAR fluffy yet. Just repeat after me…Fluffy is good. Fluffy is awesome. Fluffy is your FRIEND! If that doesn’t help…well, listen to **Persephone…** Water, that’s the ticket. Or, keep the cats out of the bathroom when you weigh yourself. The little darlings probably have their front paws on the back of the scale when you think you are all alone weighing yourself. Trust me on this. Cats are devious…pay attention to your computer, or your family, when you should be paying attention to THEM? Heh…they’ll get you, and trust me…they KNOW how to do it! Scotti:) ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/19 "2001-06-21T05:12:52Z")
130? Feh. Cry me a river. Call me when you have a real problem, babe. Sheesh. People say women are weird about their weight. [sub]you know I loves ya, Euty[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527/20 "2001-06-21T05:47:30Z")
You’re not fat, **Eutychus,** you’re extra special. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-fat/69527.md?page=2)