Me-Me #12 -- Fat Girl Thin

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12. I've always been a size "plump."



So last week I confessed what it's like living with a size 3 sister. I hinted at the fact that I was a bit more than a size 3. Truth be told, I've never been a size 3, though I have been a size 5, for about 6 months total, split up as two three month stretches.

So have I really always been a size "plump"? I have to honestly say that I don't know. I can remember being pretty young, sitting at the dinner table with my family, and being taunted by my step-dad for putting a pat or two of butter on my rice or potatoes. "You're fat enough as it is, Kid. Watch it." So I honestly grew up believing that I was a fat kid, a fat teenager, a fat and unloveable girl.



The weirdness that lies herein is that when I look at pictures of myself as a kid, a teenager, a girl -- well, I wasn't fat at all. As a matter of fact, I looked pretty damned good if I do say so myself. One picture in particular (and man, this is where I really wish my scanner was working) is from my yearbook. I think I was a freshman, and I snagged the part as one of the lounge singers (Virtue, ha ha) in our school's production of Anything Goes. I remember balking at the queer wardrobe guy (well, he WAS queer) for putting my "fat ass in all this spandex shit". But when I look back at those pictures now, I looked hot as hell. I had curves, but in good places; my ass, my boobs, and my hips. My waist and stomach were non-existant.



Be that as it may -- and parents, listen damned closely to me right now -- being TOLD all my life that I was "plump" resulted in a plump complex. I remember believing I was fat, and guess what? I acted like a fat kid, a fat teenger, a fat girl. I used food for comfort, used food to stave off boredom, and, well, I got fat.



So from the time I was about sixteen until this very day, I struggle with that fucking food because of that fucking fat complex. I go up (the highests was a size 24) I go down (the lowest was a size 6) and then I bounce back to the mid-range (a size 16 usually settles in quite happily.)
It permeates everything. I don't want to be outgoing in class because I don't want someone saying "That fat girl talks too much."
I don't want to stay too long at the company Christmas party because I don't want the attorneys to think "Who's that fat girl drinking all the Michelob Ultra."
And this:



I can't put it into words, but I can translate what this girl is thinking instead:
"Please don't touch me there. It's just gross. As a matter of fact, can you do this without touching me at all?"



I have this odd notion that one day I will no longer struggle with my weight. I don't mean that to say that I'm going to "be happy with myself no matter my size", but I know that one day "it" will click. I'll figure out that I am NOT a fat girl. Once that happens, it's all down-size from there.



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