fat

[brokenup]

I am fat! i'm not proud of it or whatever but i feel like it's a curse... i never had any troubles with my relatioship with God before but lately comments just pop in my mind without me realising.. .it's always comments like " why did God have to create me as ugly, as fat" etc etc. I keep feeling depressed because of these comments but because of a guy... I met him through another friend and i am very attracted to him, as a person.. he is sweet and very gentle.. but I feel that he would like me at all because i'm so fat!!

[Turtle]

I don't think we've met here before...but hi!
I also think no matter the size, some people have body image issues (myself included).
Has there been spiritual abuse in your life?
I gained about 20 lbs. the year we left our old church.
It's tough sometimes, but take care of you. I don't know your circumstances, but sometimes I know I need to remind myself.

[Elisabeth]

Size doesn't matter to God, or to many people. My mother usually weighed around 200 pounds, for awhile she was up over 230, at 5'6", and I have had many friends bigger than she. What matters is the person inside. And take care of you, like the other poster said. My mother and a few other friends have had thyroid problems, so make sure that physically you are healthy. And enjoy life, and don't feel like people are looking down on you for what you look like. Most won't and the ones that do, well, that's their problem! :D

[ex-shep]

I actually loved a bit in a Hanna Barbara cartoon. It may have been an episode of Quick Draw McGraw. A thief was trying to steal an elephant. He was complaining how fat he has. The elephant pined, "I am not fat, I am pleasant plump".

Some gossip in college was giving me grief about a sizeable woman I was dating. I just looked at him, "Hey, just more to enjoy". We are still good friends today.