JN_TumLover56:
I like how this forum post had went from the OP addressing concerns from their parents, to a debate about toppings on a pizza.

Arame:
But wouldn’t that still be considered skinnyfat?

Professorbigbody:
I mean I didn’t get a double chin until I was over 330 pounds

Arame:
Oh wow, so it took you a while

Professorbigbody:
yeah but now its near impossible to hide haha

Arame:
But wouldn’t that still be considered skinnyfat?

Professorbigbody:
I mean I didn’t get a double chin until I was over 330 pounds

MTurn2411:
I have no idea how I thought of it, but I've been fixated on this for awhile now.

Picture this, my car breaks down on the side of the highway in the middle of nowhere, signal on my phone is nonexistent and the nearest auto body shop is over 100 miles away. I've got no choice but to try hitch hiking or hope cell service pops up.

After an hour or two, a guy in a semi pulls over and asks if everything's alright. After a quick look, he decides there's no way to fix my car unless it's taken to a shop and he offers me a ride to wherever I need to go, on one condition. He'll take me wherever I want to go as long as I eat whatever he buys for me, and I'm not allowed to stop eating until he says so or I run out.

Thinking that this was the best option, I would agree, but then he begins making stops wherever he can to get more food and drinks. Always making sure I'm eating or drinking something until my shirt starts riding up and the seat belt is cutting into my stuffed belly. Unbeknownst to me, we've passed multiple gas stations and auto shops.

By the time he decides I can stop I look like I'm about to give birth and all I want is for him to rub my belly and tell me I'm a good girl.

Growing Rolls:
I’m more into the contrast between a slim face and a fat belly. There’s something about the aesthetic, but also the surprise element. I hope to develop the fattest and softest belly possible without my face being significantly affected. If you’re fat in the face, it sort of gives it away immediately. I ran into an old colleague by chance a couple of days ago, and after we had chatted for a while, she noticed my belly. I could see her glance down towards it repeatedly after that (I don’t think she’s FFA, just to clarify). There’s also something about being heavier than you "look." When summer comes, and you're wearing lighter and thinner clothes, and suddenly some "fat rolls" show up: that surprise, the shock effect! I love it.

Arame:
Haha that’s funny cause I said that as well, earlier in the thread. Double chins are a tell-tell sign that you’re chubby in most cases. Of course genetics plays a role in fat distribution.

However you touched on something else that I think is underrated. And that’s “Skinnyfat”. I agree, I love the “hidden surprise” factor as well. Like they look like an average sized person in public but behind closed doors they have a belly for both of us to enjoy as much as we want. It’s the thrill of having the best of both worlds kinda thing?

Growing Rolls:
No, I'm not really thinking about "skinny fat," but more about proportions and ratios—how the belly and love handles are disproportionately large, noticeably large compared to the face. The belly can be visible even with a lot of clothing, obvious very fat, but it is still much, much bigger than the face would suggest. :-)

Growing Rolls:
I’m more into the contrast between a slim face and a fat belly. There’s something about the aesthetic, but also the surprise element. I hope to develop the fattest and softest belly possible without my face being significantly affected. If you’re fat in the face, it sort of gives it away immediately. I ran into an old colleague by chance a couple of days ago, and after we had chatted for a while, she noticed my belly. I could see her glance down towards it repeatedly after that (I don’t think she’s FFA, just to clarify). There’s also something about being heavier than you "look." When summer comes, and you're wearing lighter and thinner clothes, and suddenly some "fat rolls" show up: that surprise, the shock effect! I love it.

Ditzy:
I think people share too much about themselves and their fetishes online.
Doing videos because they desire attention or validation.
I never felt I needed validation from strangers to do anything in my life.
I think perhaps the BP movement has a subset of people that push too hard to make us all look like weirdos.
Social media is not always a good place to aire your laundry.

I do support the BP movement and learning how to love yourself no matter how large or small you are.

Arame:
Did I forget to mention that Big Pun and Heavy D literally died from being obese and yet to this day are praised for their music but again Lizzo was bullied into a weight loss journey? So she was promoting obesity but they weren’t? When they literally died from being obese??? Smh it’s infuriating

JN_TumLover56:
Interesting take on this topic, very valid points. But with Lizzo’s case her reputation has already been skewed by the allegations of her body shaming her own backup dancers, then with the weight loss then people got bad because of the somewhat hypocrisy.

I have also seen a similar story with Adele when she lost the weight even with being a voice towards being a positive influence for being more curvier at the time.

And I can see why because they try to preach about embracing imperfections and saying to not worry about changing to be skinny to met societal standards… and then when they lose the weight; that’s when people be like “WTF I thought you were confident?”. It seems like it’s a lot more tricky when it comes to balancing being an inspiration to plus size people and not getting carried away from negating your wellbeing. A little something that Olivasworld95 talked about from her weight loss video.