Birthcycle » If you’re reading my blog, I’m assuming that I’m the fat person you like.

Birthcycle » If you’re reading my blog, I’m assuming that I’m the fat person you like.

“People have often said to me, ‘K, you’re not *that* fat.’” He tried to interrupt me (probably to tell me that in fact, I wasn’t *that* fat) but I cut him off, “No, they do. Do you know what that means? That means they want to let me off the hook for being fat because they like me, so that they can continue to hold a moral judgment about other fat people without having to apply it to me too. But you know, I weigh 240 pounds. I’m fat, just like she is. In fact, she and I probably weigh about the same, we just don’t look the same because we’re built differently.

word!

i hear "oh, but you're not fat!" or "oh, but you're not that fat!".

i was 242 pounds, as of last tuesday at the doctors office. i need to get some recent pictures of me up somewhere so people can see what i look like at the moment.

due to the rampant fatphobia in american (and other western) societies, no one knows what various weights look like. and i'd like to help change that.

over at kate harding's shapely prose (google it; i'm not feeling like linking right now), one of the authors challenged people to stop lying about their weight. i don't lie about it, i just don't weigh myself other than at the doctors office so i don't much know what it is. (okay, i weigh myself at my parents' house, but their scale reports different numbers than the doctors' office, and i do not think it's completely accurate.) (this is not a hint for locals to offer me an accurate scale, fyi. not interested.)

even people who know me very very well guess wrong. a particularly fine person who i am rather fond of (hi mom!) guessed that i weighed 170 or 180 this may. i may have weighed as much as ten pounds less than i do now, but not any more of a difference than that.

we are so, so, weird about weight. this is what about 240 pounds sounds like, and i'll work on some recent pictures so you can see what it looks like on big boobed, long torsoed, short legged me.