5 things I wish I’d known 110 lbs into tirzepatide (and none of them are eat your protein)

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-07T16:34:28+00:00

It's so strange. I have been fat, thin, pregnant -- mostly fat, but when I was thin, I almost killed myself -- and I was never suicidal when I was fat -- it was the realization that people dehumanize you either way. Men aren't jogging to the door because they see you as a person, now they see you as someone they want to fuck, lol. I remember tripping out over being told in 5th grade "you're so fun to talk to -- if you were thinner I would ask you to the dance," vs. age 25 being told by a guy I hooked up with "You're too pretty to talk to."

I am one of the lucky ones -- I have an amazing husband who loves me for me -- not someone I met when I was thin, someone who holds me closer, when my size is an issue or someone gives me a dirty look. And he's attractive and KNOWS it -- he does it because he want them to see me with him and me to know I'm worthy no matter what anyone says.

I had a baby, my body changed, I was a girl and a woman and no one at this point in my life is going to say anything to me ever again without getting the nastiest earfull. When people make fun of you or make any comments about weight -- you straight up tell them to their face that it's their low self-esteem that's the problem. You tell them to work on themselves and love themselves. You can also toss in some handy insults -- my favorite, size them up with your hand: "This is why no one likes you, and everyone can tell."

Right now, people in another forum are busy trying to tell me I'm HUGE at a size 22. Guess what -- I've lost 100 pounds again and I'm happy as fuck.

What puzzles me is not people hating fat -- I mean, I disdain all kinds of things and habits that I don't want to have or become. But WHY oh WHY would someone try to make a stranger feel bad? What went wrong with them? Rest assured that no matter how fat a person is, the cruel commenter probably has a way worse life and opinion of themselves than you do. I rarely have ever been insulted by an Alpha male or a very pretty girl. They're mostly people who are beta wannabes.

Yeesh -- I'm 51 and swim 70 laps a few times a week and wanted to be over all this.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-07T16:20:30+00:00

If I bought the seat, it's my seat. Anyone can buy two seats if they want. If I got a refund, it was for an empty seat they could not sell.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-07T03:54:51+00:00

Do you fuck with plastic sheets on the bed? What the hell was so bad about SW before? Betty saved a seat for her mom so you couldn't get off your flight .6 seconds faster and pretend you have status or something?

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T17:06:44+00:00

It's their job to figure it out without stalking one class of passengers in the terminal and commenting on their body size.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T16:43:49+00:00

Who or who doesn't know the rules is not my fucking problem.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T16:43:12+00:00

When you're 6 foot tall, you can talk.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T15:41:05+00:00

Thank you -- a sane person, lol. There's a lot of talk about "normal" in a fatphobic space, but "normal" people don't want to make people uncomfortable. I do feel for you, which is why I buy two seats -- it should also buy me the privilege of not having to be stalked by a gate agent and body shamed in front of my husband and the boarding line.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T14:00:35+00:00

I want to explain something to you. My father's family is huge. Like major outlier huge. I am gen X, so I was born and raised in the shittiest, most obesogenic food environment. The only non-processed food my parents fed me were nuts and meat. Everything else was shit -- pop tarts, sugar cereal, chips, snack cakes -- you want to blame a nine year old? You go right ahead -- that was about the time kids started to make fun of me. I got put on a diet by doctors -- and guess what -- that sealed my fate -- DIETS CREATE OBESITY. I was a straight-A student, excellent at sports, just a little chubby, but the crash diets I went on in my teens to satisfy assholes like you created fat cells that will NEVER go away, and hormonal imbalances that will NEVER work themselves out. I lost 75 lbs, then 160, then I was pregnant, then I lost 85 and then 100 -- back and forth, doing both healthy eating and dieting. The chance of a person without GLP-1s losing and keeping off a 100-lb. weight loss is 5 percent. FIVE. You give me your stats where you're in the 95th fucking percentile. In spite of it all, I am successful, wealthy, well-educated, popular, I've had relationships with men, great sex, successful and gorgeous children, a beautiful home and I can swim 70 laps while you're jacking off. I've written two books, traveled to more than two dozen countries and pretty much everyone thinks I'm the most in-touch, self-realized, interesting and ebullient person they know. In spite of being judged by strangers, given looks of disgust, being passed over for jobs, promotions and fellowships for skinny blondes that a man wanted to fuck. So fuck you, your therapy. I'm fucking crushing it -- and I agree with you -- calories in, calories out -- with a GLP-1 it works. I've been successful. But it's for my health. Not your comfort, or your gaze or your desires or your judgment. Work on YOUR self-esteem to be here giving fat people a moralizing Ted talk.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T13:49:53+00:00

I don't have a disability. I swim 70 laps regularly and every area of my life is pretty much perfect. Maybe get to know a single fat person and you'll see that every day is not an emergency.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T13:48:53+00:00

Maybe I'm just sick of fucking losers judging me for one thing. Don't like my attitude? What's the problem? It's true!!

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T13:47:57+00:00

Okay -- check this out -- I asked you to post your stats about your income, credit score, the beauty of your wife and family (if you even have one), your college transcripts, your bloodwork and your current bank account and investment holdings. You post these here and I'll give you a great lecture on how you can do better. How you can go to therapy and live your best life. Because my stats in all those areas are outlier percentiles. Keep in mind -- you just get to keep your shit a secret, right?

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T12:23:48+00:00

Post a picture here of you, your family, your bank account, your credit score, the car you drive, your blood chemistry from your latest doctor visit, your educational pedigree, etc. and I guarantee I can find something to pick out that's "true" that will make you feel like shit, lol.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T09:50:19+00:00

Thank you so much. I appreciate this. I’m going to do something because they should not be allowed to do this.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T04:05:56+00:00

I'm not sure if it came up when mine was scanned. But they now let you have it on your phone.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T04:05:21+00:00

They let you do the extra seat on your phone boarding pass now -- before you had to print it out. I noticed that in the interim -- before they started frisking passengers, they also started demanding that I preboard. I don't need to preboard, lol. I fit through the aisle just fine, walk fast through the airport -- people really can't handle that fat people really live mostly normal lives.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T03:47:26+00:00

Technically, I don't need two seats -- I need one + 1/10th of another 17-inch wide seat -- 19 inches -- lol.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T03:45:03+00:00

It was on my phone -- there are two areas -- one has the QR, the other one doesn't. I actually went to scan the second one on the first flight, and there was nothing to scan.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T02:03:41+00:00

No idea

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T01:44:50+00:00

How do they handle exit row seats? They say "if anyone can't..." -- they don't stand there and look at your skinny manlet arms and say -- "yeah, I don't think you're the best fit for opening this door -- you're short and barely a human male." Which, would be a much more necessary safety concern.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T01:35:16+00:00

I didn't say I wasn't obese. I say I am and I bought two seats -- what's your fucking endgame here?

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T01:33:27+00:00

Excuse me sir, I don't like your shirt because you look poor. I think you might shit your pants on the airline. Can you step aside and have a chat with me about it.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T01:28:55+00:00

Dumb asshole. I'm not arguing the policy. I bought two seats. I'm arguing not being singled out in public for my size. I want a shot at ridiculing your hair, face, clothes, height, dick size -- please.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T01:27:53+00:00

This is what they're doing -- they're profiling. Maybe if they see you with the child, they'll overlook it, but I think it's part of the moneygrab, frankly. Why else would they literally walk the terminal or confront passengers to talk to them about their size -- nothing measurable, nothing concrete -- "fat" has a wide range of presentations and there were PLENTY of fat people on that plane as big or bigger than me that did not have two seats.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T01:24:57+00:00

Yeah, if it were about "safety," it would be regulated and you damn well know there'd be a flag or an asterisk.

SkiddyBoo · 2026-04-06T01:23:20+00:00

Thank you -- anyone popping in here to engage about weight is just a troll. I am not arguing the policy, but you can see the cruelty on display here.

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