You can call me fat.
You can call me overweight, plump, heavy..
You can call me chubby, portly, rotund.
You can call me corpulent, stout, cumbersome.
You can call me zaftig, hefty, ponderous.
You can call me stout, overblown, porcine.
But don't call me obese!

There is something about that word that infuriates me. It's so medical and seems so permanent. Doctors use that word so matter of fact like they were saying you're right handed. Well, I've checked my BMI and now I have a goal. I've got to lose 24 more lbs. and then I can truly say

"You can call me fat,but you can't call me Obese."

Les
(5/25/03)
259/221/197

And even worse ... morbidly obese. I was there at one time .... then I was severely obese...now I'm just extremely obese !!! I guess it'll be a good day when I'm just plain obese.

LOL

Sheri

Those labels are terrible I agree. My next mini goal is "overweight", but I still hate the labels.

Like all of you I hate the word obese also. Call me fat I can take it, but not obese.

I remember when my late mother was being treated for breast cancer. She was horrible upset over being called obese (she weighed 180 and was 5'6"). I thought she was going to take the doctors head off . That is really an ugly word!

Thanks Les fro the poem .

Susan ( AKA Northwest)
207/177.5/160

Here's one for you--I review written reports for a number of different doctors. There is one who always refers to his patients as "mammothly" obese. Visions of wooly mammoth, anyone? I swear, I wouldn't go to this guy just because of that perspective!

Aderyn

I prefer to be called "big-boned."

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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door."

Pleasantly pump is great, or better yet a couple of descriptions that have gone out of style are "Rubensque and Portly". Those two sound very romantic to me.

FAT sounds so obtuse and is a hateful word in my vocabulary. I've always been "portly" even as a child. In school my nickname was "Jelly Belly" since I decided one day to accept it, it sort of stuck and was shortened. By the time I was in Jr HS, it was shortened to JB.

When I was in the service "Pillsbury Dough-boy" was applied by some skinny-as-a-rail troglodyte that couldn't add two and two. (my..my still angry about this after all this time ) Again I kind of though of how cute and cuddly that image brought to mind and accepted it. Thus another nickname stuck.

However when I was in an auto accident about 12 years ago and read my chart. The doctor referred to me as "morbidly obese". I was crushed. First lesson, don't read your med chart!

Anyway sorry for the ramble, this topic really struck a cord.

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LC - 7/3/03
290/242/169

I myself have always preferred the term "voluptuous"

Vicky >^..^<

"Dogs are nature's way of telling you your furniture's too nice!"

I was always just a "sweet guy" with a "good personality"...

Now I've lost 50+ pounds, I'd have to figure out where I am on the scale. Probably still in the "galactically obese" category.


Mikeyrat

Started Atkins 5/30/2003
337/283.5/237 - 6'2" 43 YO
Wife: 224/194/165 - 5'11"

I generally refer to DH and myself as "Real Americans -- We take up space!!". I have no problem refering to myself as a fat girl. In my family you either admitted to your faults and owned them or were harassed mercilessly. It takes the fun out of name calling -- for the teaser anyway!!

Call me Bob....

"Can't Means Won't"
"No matter where you go, there you are..."

(266)257/220/125

i prefer "fluffy" =) it brings to mind baby chicks and little bunnies rather than huge barrels of lard =P

i dont like obese because its a label, particularly used in the medical field. i really hate labels, especially when applied by a doctor who is trying to control your behavior in some way with it.

Erin
atkins since 12/2/02
preggo and lcing!

lol @ 'fluffy'...
My mom had a poster that she had hangin on her wall, was a big ole fuzzy bear with a caption that read...
"I'm not Fat!, I'm just Fluffy"

Thanks for the memory

Yup.. I remember all to well when the PA said that I was considered morbidly obese! Of course this was the first time I had ever been called that! For some reason that made my heart sink to the bottom of my stomach like "I" did something terribly wrong and was in trouble for it! Every since then I have hated that term! Even after all the names I was called in school including "porky pig".. that one hurt the most!

Tanya


Member since Jan 2002
re-started on 1-3-03
272/197/185<--(next goal)

Not just hearing that I'm morbidly obese hurt a lot when a obgyn told me that, even more so to "JUST lose about at least 20 pounds" and I would have an easier time becoming pregnant hurt a lot too - like that is soooooo easy (that was way before I had ever heard of Atkins or low-carb). Of course that Dr was skinny and thus has no idea how it is to be big-boned. I changed doctors - he didn't give me any other reasons or options.

Never give up! Never surrender!

Katrin

Ktrin.. I can feel for you on the part of the OBGYN telling you that. I went to this new OBGYN for infertility and he said that he wanted me to loose 25lbs to prove to him that I really want a baby! I cried right in front of him! I think trying for 3 years at that point was more than enough to prove that I wanted a baby! Needless to say I never went back to him and refused to see any other doctors until my husband convinced me to try one more! Finally after 6 and half years we got our baby! Doctors can be soo cruel!

Tanya


Member since Jan 2002
re-started on 1-3-03
272/197/185<--(next goal)