Comments on: It’s My Fault I’m Fat

By: Bianca

Bianca — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:17:43 +0000

It might have been the breadstick I threw at your head.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:25:24 +0000

That’s the thing – I’m realizing now that it doesn’t matter. It’s like I had an epiphany while at lunch with Bianca – sometimes I have to be hit over the head a million times to get something, and then all of sudden, it just clicks.

Attempting to pinpoint it just made me come to terms with the fact that it’s all goooood.

and thanks for the compliments, BTW!

By: Frances

Frances — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:41:15 +0000

Why does it matter? I’ve read your post and I’ve read all the comments, and they’re all very interesting, but I feel like I’m missing something. Why does it matter how you got fat?

Who cares if it’s genetics or if you brought it on yourself? How will pinpointing the root of your fatness change anything?

I mean, you’re alive and you’re gorgeous and you’re happy. Why do you have to analyse this?

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:53:51 +0000

Yay for theWireMonkey! Thank you for visiting! and thank you for the kind words!

And yes, I am very happy and healthy!

aren’t I brave?

By: theWireMonkey

theWireMonkey — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:19:05 +0000

You are one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever met and one of the most down to earth (and bravest–guess who this is!). So what you’ve got more curves than some women? Are you healthy? Are you happy? You are most definitely loved, if that makes any difference!

Your brave sister-in-law,
TheWireMonkey

By: wriggles

wriggles — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:24:42 +0000

What if something really did happen to me when I was 9 years old, with my physiology, that made me gain the weight?

I think this sort of sums up how I feel. It’s not about what you did when you were 9 years old, it’s that your body made an adjustment and part of that was in your eating. Not the other way around.

That’s what people can’t seem to get, we all eat the same way, we respond to our hunger. Responding to your hunger is not making yourself anything.

By: Calories = BS? « Two Zaftig Chicks

Calories = BS? « Two Zaftig Chicks — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:21:07 +0000

[...] = BS? Yesterday, Sylvia wrote a very honest post, about how she’s always thought it was her fault that she is fat. Thanks everyone for their [...]

By: bobbygee

bobbygee — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:16:49 +0000

We are all different. Eat what you like. Don’t worry be happy Bobby Gee http://bobbygee.wordpress.com/

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:16:22 +0000

It is so liberating and cleansing to put your thoughts out there, all your neuroses, and have people say “I feel the same way!!!” – Thank You!!!

By: Lexxie

Lexxie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:57:54 +0000

As much as I scorned the people who judged me for the way I looked, I hated myself so much more for being that way.

Holy crap! This may have nothing to do with what you are talking about, but I have to say that where my headspace has been lately, this line alone has spoken volumes to me. Sometimes I wonder what holds me back from doing things, I mean other fat people do everything that non-fat people do, people just live there lives and don’t apologize. But me, no no, I have a huge block that sucks my motivation away and it isn’t because of someone, not because of past hurt, not always, I work on these things…the biggest block is ME!!! May seem like an obvious conclusion given that even if I don’t decide what is given to me I do decide what to do with it in the end. But HOLY CRAP!! This is an epiphany, just the way you said it. We blame ourselves. I have hated myself for so long it’s my default. So having given yourself things to think about to do with questioning if there is anything to blame at all, you have also done that for me. In a different way. I love the fatosphere. Rant complete.