48 Quotes About Overweight

If you want to heal a broken heart,Be smart! That's all an ancient art.Start by loving the very small partsThat were left there shattered apart.

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they do or what they know. (1)

Never second guess a BBW

[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar.

Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth?""Couldn't tell you to save my life.""Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world.""De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason.""Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there.""Well then, what was they put here for?""To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.

fanny-pack: (v.) to put on a few extra pounds during the holiday season.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.