[cathylovee]

So I have this friend, and shes about my height and weighs only around 105 pounds, while I weigh like 120 pounds. She keeps complaining about her fat, but ive seen her body and it's very toned and theres NO fat at all! It makes me so mad when she says that, it's like she needs to have her friends assure her she's still skinny.

What do you say to those people? I try telling her shes FINE and she denies it everytime. she calls her self names like," fatass, pig, obese." I really don't know if she actually considers herself overweight...

[Mentos]

I used to, but not anymore.

1. They're either fishing for compliments (in a really pathetic way), or,
2. They have distorted views of "healthiness", and,
3. They have LOW self esteem


I used to have a friend like that. She was skin and bones, and she kept complaining about her gut (clearly there was none).
Even though I'm "fatter" than her, I just agreed and suggested that she should work out more than just once a week if she's that unhappy ^^.
I knew she was fishing for compliments.

I don't stand for those kinds of people.
However, if it's a SERIOUS problem... then I'm not the right person to help "cure" that kind of a mentality.
I'd suggest a psychologist. (Not that I WON'T help discourage that kind of a mentality).

[WhiteStars]

shoot, i get really annoyed when girls call them skinny
when they are not it drives me mad.
i do agree they are just askin for compliments or something

[MrPower]

This is how I see it.

They're either looking for reassurance that's they're not fat, or their standards for what determines one to be "fat" is much higher than most people.

Don't hate. Just accept them.

[Makaveli]

Doesn't bother me, just makes me think that they're absolute morons and they may possibly have
dysmorphia. They are definitely not impressive or attractive. Quite the opposite.

[xxingy_XP]

Maybe when they're calling themselves fat, they just mean they feel fat and not that they're actually fat. :shrug: If it annoys you that much, tell her to stop complaining.

[screamxlove]

I have friends who do that all the time. I'm bigger than a majority of my friends (although my height may have some play in this) so it's like eh. Before, I used to feel uneasy but nowadays, I'm just going EH. Whatever. I'm just going to keep eating. I'm healthy. I exercise. I've got nothing to worry over. Them, however... Last time I said to a friend to go ahead and work out -- I can help her out if she wanted -- she just... cried and cried and said I was mean.

Lol wtf :|

[C2yeuhs]

Or she knows that she is fine and wants you to confirm that , hahaa....
My cousin like that, everytime I meet her, she alway talks about her weight
Athough she is thin than me, but she think she is fat.
alway compaining with me , so boring

[ohmylamb.]

I'm like that alright =/
But then, I think it's only my tummy showing~
So I'm not really fat
I need to do exercises!
I feel ashamed to wear clothes and they look so zzz after meals.

[Nokken]

I have a few friends like that... I tell them there not fat at all.. they insist they are. finally I tell them to look at me.. and they shut up .______.;

[soyabeangirl16]

yeah, it does bother me because they have really bad body image. and thats a problem.
one of my really skinny friends who's my height and 10 pounds lighter than me (and wayyy more toned) says that im skinnier than her. and she runs for riduculous amounts of time each day because apparently she needs to lose fat.
i hope these kinds of people snap out of it eventually.

[chrissatinee]

Yeah, I have a friend who's 5"6 and weighs about 100-105 and she looks skinny as well.
She always goes "I'm so fat" Holy cr@p, then what I am?
I change my voice to a serious tone, and go "Are you serious?"

[~ BunnyliciouS ~]

probably they feel that way because of the fat in their mid-section?
Some people said i'm pretty skinny, but I disagree, because of my stomach is not flat, it makes me feel super fat.

yah, some people are so abnormal, they feel fat if they aren't under 100 lbs, not toothpick skinny with flat chest and flat butt.

[kame0o]

1. They're either fishing for compliments (in a really pathetic way), or,
2. They have distorted views of "healthiness", and,
3. They have LOW self esteem

Totally agree.

I have a friend who had a baby (about 5 yrs ago now) and she ALWAYS complains about how fat she is. She's about 5'3" and 115 pounds and for someone who gave birth, that is not fat. This is rather skinny. I'm bigger than her so I would reply back, "so if you're fat, does that make me a pig?" she didn't reply ..... She's obsessed with her weight because her mom is also obsessed with it, and skinny runs in her family. It's so freaking annoying and honestly next time she complains that she's "fat", imma snap back and state those 3 reasons of why I think she complains so much about her weight "problem". And also, that it's rude to complain about this to people who are obviously bigger than they are.

[xo_do.re.mi_ox]

YESS! it's super annoying. especially when they do it in front of not so skinny people.
it's like they want others to notice the fact that they're skinny (fishing for compliments)
and they want to make the other person look like total frap.
makes me mad.

[daniMIAMI]

Sometimes, lol. I have this skinny-short friend and she keeps calling herself huge. If she's fat, if she's fat, what am I? I'd be huge. ==; But seriously, she's skinny as hell. Not anorexic skinny but skinny, though she does eat a lot. It's not fair that she doesn't gain weight. ==;

[c i e l`]

If I see a...double-chin? XD I'm fat,
no matter how many times people tell me I'm thin,
I absolutely am fat.

[blisstic]

Hmmm...alot of people/my friends say I'm 'skinny' (5ft, around 89lbs, and size 00-0) but I don't think so at all D:
I need to lose like...at least 5 pounds or something >_< my thighs are huuuuge T_T
Anyways, with your friend it could be that she's like me lmao xD and has low self esteem/thinks the ideal body is really skinny.
Oooor she wants compliments and reassurance from her friends?

[iitzjesss]

next time she complains be like yep go hit the gym buddy....definitely got me and a few of my friends to shut up when we complain

[TSignature]

Hmmm...alot of people/my friends say I'm 'skinny' (5ft, around 89lbs, and size 00-0) but I don't think so at all D:
I need to lose like...at least 5 pounds or something >_< my thighs are huuuuge T_T
Anyways, with your friend it could be that she's like me lmao xD and has low self esteem/thinks the ideal body is really skinny.
Oooor she wants compliments and reassurance from her friends?

I know what you mean. With short people our thighs can be a really small pant size but they look big in proportion to the rest of our body because our legs are so much shorter.

I know I wear pretty small sized everywhere but I still look fat compared to a girl who's 5'7" and wears size 5. because their skinny for their height and I'm not.

Actually, the thing that annoys me even more than skinny people calling themselves fat is fat people who call skinnier people fat. I have overweight friends who make fun of my weight and I'm like 'what?'