# "No wonder you're so fat" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487 "2003-07-23T21:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![finette6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@finette6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finette6)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487/61 "2003-07-26T05:13:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*As for **finette** , you may be surprised at what people notice. I can’t imagine losing 15 pounds and not having it be noticeable. I once lost 10 over the course of the summer quite unintentionally and several people noticed it, even though I didn’t realize I had lost weight until I jumped on a scale after the comments. It was quite nice. \*\* Well, it was nice the first time (when I came home that thankgiving) but when she kept harping about it all through the year when I know positively that I didn’t lose any more weight (doctor visits each time, the only way I ever know my weight anyway), the bloom wore off. It was like she was commenting not on how nice I looked then, but how bad I had looked before (to her). As I said, after the inital drop, no one else saw a difference and my clothes all fit the same (still do, a year later). It was the constant repetion that hurt, not the particular words. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487/62 "2003-07-26T15:15:43Z")
My favourite comment from my manipulative grandmother (whom I loved very much, and who didn’t get away with pulling any nonsense with me) was: “Well, you never did want to look pretty, did you?” Um. Gee. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![UperCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c0e974/32.png) [@UperCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UperCow)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487/63 "2003-07-27T01:13:40Z")
God my grandmother is like that too. My cousin is obese and i am norimal i guess whatever you want to call it. Grandma comes in “oh sara you are so beautiful you get thinner everytime Joanna (my cousin) now she’s a bit to chubby she has to wear stretchy ppants but oh you are pretty” yeah…she most have missed the whole sara’s got eating problems and your part of the reason why they developed Sara ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487/64 "2003-07-27T06:39:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*But Karma ended up biting Grandma in her bony ass. > > She died from complications from osteoporosis. \*\* In that case, wouldn’t it be that Karma ended up biting Grandma in her \*\*lack-of-\*\*bony ass? ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487/65 "2003-07-27T12:51:05Z")
I’ve always been heavy. I remember one day my normal sized cousin and I were playing together. She was eating a candy bar and her grandmother came in and said to her “if you keep eating like that, you’ll end up looking like Laura.” To say I was hurt would be putting it mildly. But I did get my own, quiet revenge. She used to eat Thanksgiving dinner with us every year, and every year I’d make up little place cards of where everyone would sit. This meant that when I let our three dogs eat off her dishes, I was sure they were her dishes 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487/66 "2003-07-27T15:43:17Z")
My grandmother manages to combine the sweet grandma and the evil old bitch. When I visit her, she always, always runs down the list of junk food available. “There’s some ice cream, some egg rolls in there, some candy…” On and on. The last time I saw her, I finally broke down and asked “Do you have something in a cookie?” (Yes.) Whenever I talk to her on the phone and mention food in even the most tangential way (“Oh, we’re going to order pizza and rent a movie”), she always follows it with “Don’t eat too much, you’ll get fat.” Extremely annoying, but I’m sure she speaks from experience, having spent years sprawled in her armchair with her hand jammed down a box of Cheez-its. ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487/67 "2003-07-27T18:21:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thatDDperson \* > \*\*My Aunt Alice is your grandmother?? > > Last time Aunt Alice pulled that crap on me (in MY home, not my parent’s home, MINE) I told her to shut the hell up , and go outside and have another cigarette, since her hacking up half her lungs hadn’t kept but 2/3 of the neighbors awake the night before. Her response? “Well, you don’t need to sit there and eat pudding for breakfast.” I thrust a handful of yogurt at her face and said “Yogurt, you bitch, yogurt.” The I packed her stuff, put her in the car and took her to the Holiday Inn. > \*\* What a scream of a story. I’m in Houston too; we should get a beer. Anyway, it’s sad when grandparents are like this. You sort of expect parents to pick and nag at you (because they think it’s their job), but grandparents, aunts, etc. are supposed to spoil you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-youre-so-fat/190487.md?page=3)