Let's have a fat chat

 

 

 

Chewing the fat: “An information conversation, idle chit-chat’’.

 

 

The word fat has so many negative connotations, yet it gets thrown around with gay abandon (much like the word gay).

For example, the word seems to naturally pair with the word ugly – fat and ugly, fat arse, fat mamma.

If you are reading this, you probably have a sorry relationship with the word and its many, sorry uses.

That is because you are one of Michelle Bridges’ 12WBT participants, and have followed a link to get to my post.

I thought I would create a blog where we can explore what being fat means, and where we can, indeed, chew the fat, have a chat, and hopefully a light-hearted laugh.

To start the ball rolling I have reproduced some quotes about being fat,

 

“Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.”
- Anonymous

 

“It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.”
- Roseanne Barr

“Brain cells come and brain cells go but fat cells live forever!”
- Anonymous

“Thin people are beautiful but fat people are adorable!”
- Jackie Gleason


“There’s a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.”
- Kirstie Alley

 

“When we lose twenty pounds…we may be losing the best twenty pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.”
- Woody Allen

 

“If nature had intended for our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.”
- Elmer Rice

 

“I was really tired of words like ‘plus size’, ‘round’ and ‘large’. I thought, ‘come on we’re fat’.”
- Kirstie Alley

 

 

Please, tell me, what words you use to avoid saying the words “I’m fat’’. Or words that other people have used?

 

 

Here are some examples - plump, stout, overweight, large, chubby, portly, flabby, paunchy, potbellied, beer-bellied, meaty, of ample proportions, heavyset; obese, corpulent, fleshy, gross; plus-sized, big-boned, tubby, roly-poly, well-upholstered, beefy, porky, blubbery, chunky, pudgy.

Here are some times when it's great to be called fat...
 

 

 

...when it's a part of your name, and you're busy having  a PHAT  time (PHAT = Pretty Hot and Tempting, street talk)

...when you're a FAT TIRE, and build for speed

 

...and when you're a fat cat - the type that's rolling in the dough, not the type that eats all your leftovers.

 

I look forward to hearing from you.