Conversationalists: me and some old woman, probably in her 70s
Old lady: So do you play soccer, basketball, or volleyball?
Me: Actually, I am a runner.
Old lady: Really? You don't look like one.
Me: Oh.
Old lady: Runners are always skinny. I once took a yoga class that was too advanced for me and the instructor was a runner and there was nothing to her. But you....you've got some meat on your bones. A lot of meat on your bones.
Me: Put hair in pony tail.
Old lady: Does that bob make you run faster?
Me: Put in ear phones and walk away, saying some words to her in my head. I just couldn't take it anymore.
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Seriously, did that lady just call me fat to my face in a round-about way? I wanted to punch her, but refrained from doing so. As a person who has struggled and struggles with weight and body image, this type of comment frustrates me. Granted, I chalk it up to lady being old and senile. But still, to have the nerve to say that. That is the first time in my life that I can remember that someone called me fat.
Now, I am not and will never be a size 0 or 2, but that does not bother me. In the past few months, I have come to terms with my "happy weight." The scale does not define me or my happiness. I'm happy being me, in my size 6 or 8. I am healthy the way I am, and don't feel like I need to change that. I feel like the pictures below show that. So, old lady, take your comment back. You can eat my dust when I fly past you.
That lady is wiggity wiggity wiggity whack. (Sorry for the Kris Kross reference.) But seriously - what the hell? You're gorgeously in shape!
ReplyDeleteYou go! Don't let that old lady get you down.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, you look great (from what I can tell from your photos).
Right after my diagnosis, I was working as a barista and wearing my medical ID bracelet. At that point, I was about 30 lbs lighter than I am now, and some old lady asked if I could just exercise more, lose weight, and eat better to cure my diabetes. Yeah lady, do I look fat to you?
P.S. Me being the snark that I am would have just told her that her comments were inappropriate and gone on my merry way. You are a much calmer soul than I am.
OMG. holy hell that's maddening!
ReplyDeleteI honestly can't believe even the most old and senile folks are that daft.
You got NOTHING to worry about. But you know that.
Good luck on your duathalon, I look forward to reading about it.
Maybe it's a guy thing, but I wouldn't take offense at someone saying I had meat on my bones. Or maybe it's a fat guy thing, now that I think about it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, skinny can be taken too far. Maybe she wasn't trying to say what you think she was.
I agree that you have no need to be concerned.