"Too skinny"

You are making your friend look bad, particularly when her husband is checking you out....and believe me, he is.

Meh, don't sweat it.

This country has become so fat that no one remembers what a "fit" person is supposed to look like anymore.

Your friend is probably a fat slob. Start talking some trash of your own.

Pics, please.

BTW, 109 after having 2 kids is impressive. You're probably quite a fox, and your friend is jealous. Chances are she's not the only one that's jealous.

pic?

such a pet peeve of mine

what if I said someone was 'too fat'? this would not be acceptable.

Just yesterday at a meeting a guy said I needed to have a donut as they needed to 'fatten me up' I didnt really care for that. And everyone laughed.

what if I said: hey you dont need that donut put it down you need to lose weight, which is true.. No one would laugh and Id be sitting in HR right now.

hey no sweat, i once had a man in a car tell me i was digusting and unhealthy. he claimed that skinnyness is unhealthy. i had to laugh. here's an overweight man telling me i'm unhealthy WHILE i'm in the middle of a 10 mile run. i eat properly, and i train hard. granted this happened in kansas so it doesn't suprise me.

Don't worry, at 5'2 and 99lbs I get similar comments all the time. People always ask if I'm eating enough or if I have an eating disorder. I do workout hard, eat healthy/watch what I eat but I certainly do not have a problem. I find the comments to be very irritating as well.

To be 5'4 and 109lbs sounds perfectly healthy to me and can I just say that that is VERY impressive for a mother of two! Keep it up!

nutellalove wrote:

such a pet peeve of mine

what if I said someone was 'too fat'? this would not be acceptable.

Just yesterday at a meeting a guy said I needed to have a donut as they needed to 'fatten me up' I didnt really care for that. And everyone laughed.

what if I said: hey you dont need that donut put it down you need to lose weight, which is true.. No one would laugh and Id be sitting in HR right now.

....so true.

you must look fine. My girlfriend is 18 and runs. she's 5'5" 103lbs. She's gorgeous.

We need pics

I'm exactly the same as you. I feel healthy, strong and for the most part eat whatever I want, whenever I want...and I'm 44! I am proud of my running accomplishments and how I look and feel. Really, it's other people's insecurities on how they look. I just say, "whatever".

I'm 5'5" an 112 lbs. and am a 41 yr.old male. And i could stand to lose 5 or 6 lbs. You must be kind of chunky.

As for the jealousy thing, I suppose it's possible. This woman is about 5'2" and weighs 120ish pounds. She's a stocky build, but not "fat." She has no kids, about 45 y.o.,I'm 34. She trains hard (for her), but barely eats and is clueless about nutrition. My immediate reaction was that I'd be considered cruel if I outwardly questioned why she hasn't lost more fat given that she's training for a half Ironman.

I'm going to a dinner party tomorrow night that she & her hubby are attending, and I'm bringing appetizers. I'm torn between celery stick w/ fat free ranch dip or turkey slices wrapped in lettuce leaves...

I get these comments all the time from friends, saying I amm too thin. A lot of the comments come from people who knew me when I was 92 pounds heavier, so I GUESS I can kind of understand why they would say it. But you know what, they are just jealous of your discipline and how good you look. Next time someone calls you too skinny, tell them they are too fat. I bet that will be the last time they comment.

Actually, too skinny is redundant since skinny (in my mind at least) seems to have a negative connotation. Thin on the other hand is probably what you want to go for...

oh well, i guess one can be too skinny but as the saying goes, you can never be too rich or too thin.

anyway, one-oh-something does seem a bit on the really small side, but it is all relative...usually when someone says that they mean it as a complement.

Anyone who's at a healthy weight is considered too thin by a lot of people. My grandma thought my dad was too thin when he lost some weight, and he was still 5'10 and 175lbs. That isn't thin, and nowhere near skinny. My mom is the same way. I gained about 15 pounds one winter when I had a string of injuries that never let me run more than a few weeks over a period of about 6 months. When I told my mom I was big and needed to get back down to my racing weight, she acted like I was crazy. She thought I was too skinny before and I was 5'10, 150 pounds, which is kinda on the big side for a runner.

Most people have a skewed view of what "normal" is (due to everyone being fatasses), so anyone at a healthy weight looks skinny to them.

Look up your BMI. Though it doesn't take into account body composition, BMI is a good way to find out how you're doing weight-wise.

This seems to be happeining a lot to me too, I'm 5'7 and 115lbs and I eat as much as my boyfriend. It's super annoying, but just stay focused on being healthy and staying fit to run fast. Those other fat asses just don't get it!

If you do look up the BMI, you'll see that the number is 18.7, which is VERY close to the government's unhealthy (i.e., anorexic) range.

I've noticed in the last couple of years a sharp increase in the converage in the tabloids of "too skinny" models and actresses, which is probably a way of making their readership (which I imagine is mostly fat, middle-aged housewives unhappy with their lives and make themselves feel better by putting down others--you, know, just like your average poster here) feel better in their fatness.

But in this particular case, the people may be right.