Comments on: Please don’t poke the fat girl

By: gtree

gtree — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:09:11 +0000

I’m taking abs classes and every once in a while I’ll look at myself in the mirror to see what new ab muscles are visible (they are still shy but peeking out). Then I’ll yell to my husband to come see them. The funny thing is that he will come see them and get as excited for me as I am (or is he excited for himeself?)

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:32:36 +0000

haha, that totally reminds me of my little skinny baby.. He pokes my stomach and is so gleeful about it, it’s kinda embarrassing because now he thinks its fair game to go up to anyone with a tummy and smack it to see it jiggle. And I just want to point out that your fat % scale is probably wrong – You’ve lost a lot of weight, they don’t account for skin.

By: Dyan

Dyan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:22:36 +0000

My 8 year old stepdaughter loves to tell me that I am fat and then come over and poke at the places where I need to lose weight.

Her mother is an aerobics instructor and gym teacher. She has also taught her daughter that fat people are lazy and eat too much at McDonalds and that tanning is good for her.

And they say stepmothers are evil?

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:40:04 +0000

Hmmm…

This post brings up so many thoughts about how I feel about my body AND how I feel about what I THINK others think about my body—-past and present. Its funny how certain exchanges stay in your mind for years and years, while so many others just slip through. Why did that moment stick? I always wonder if those are the thoughts that mull around in your mind at night, when you’re not looking, and eventually have an impact on your “awake” thinking, too. Can a negative become a positive? I’m mulling again…

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:53:32 +0000

Wow tuff stuff from the last couple of comments from the peanut gallery today. I wish we could be allowed to honestly ask those questions that we really don’t understand the answer to. Political Correctness causes us to smugly walk around ignorant of the truth assuming we never hurt anyone, but in actuality hurting many. It doesn’t seem like she was trying to be malicious.

Anyway…my actual response to your comment (before I hit the slush at the end of the comments) was that it is amazing that while your body has been transforming and your thinking of food related things have changed, your true philosophy about life is still the same. I marvel at the complexity of the human body on a regular basis.

By: TOWR

TOWR — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:29:46 +0000

What a hag. I would have poked her in the frigging eye.

By: RuralGurl

RuralGurl — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:06:09 +0000

huff, puff, I finally caught up. I’ve been reading your blog since October and now I’m all current. (slow reader).You should have poked Diedre back and said, “so that’s what a sack of bones feels like”. Sorry I have no patience for unfeeling people. Even if she was just ignorantly curious, common sense should have prevailed.

I’m no where near feeling muscles or ribs, but I do have this one hollow near my hip that wasn’t there before. Very cool! Really enjoy your blog, thanks and I’ll keep reading.

By: Les~

Les~ — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:46:49 +0000

Congrats on your sculpting and muscle tone!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:04:52 +0000

Take two… don’t know what happened to my first comment, it didn’t show up properly.

What a strange story from your high school days! I cant believe that girl poked your belly, I have never heard of anyone doing that before. I wonder if she reads your blog and I wonder what she would say to you now if she seen you?!?! :)

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:04:29 +0000

Take two… don’t know what happened to my first post.