SkinnyD:
It's becoming a playful joking thing at work (automotive shop, bunch of dudes who joke and mess around with each other all day). They started calling me Skinny one day because I was only 130lbs at 5'9". I started gaining last year after losing weight from an injury and surgery.

Now I'm 165 which isn't that heavy at all but I clearly have a bit of a tummy and chonky thighs, and my uniform pants went from size 30 to 36 (although with Cintas their 36 is more like a 34), so they're trying to figure out new nicknames and just being silly. The other day I sat down and one coworker is like "holy shit look at Skinny's belly! He's BellyD now!" When we left work he's just like "see you Monday, Belly!" I just have to chuckle at it. I can't say that I admired "SkinnyFatA**" though, that name wasn't too endearing. Sometimes I'll be finishing my breakfast or grabbing a quick snack during some downtime and I hear "OMG this guy is eating again! He's going for that 180 next!"

The other day I stepped up onto what was supposed to be a bench made of pallets, and almost went through it. I attributed it to the thin wood beginning to rot, but another coworker attributed it to me getting heavier. They joke now, but wait until I'm another 35lbs heavier and actually am kinda fat. I actually wonder if they will still joke the same, probably if I keep playing along with it. Most of the time I don't feel offended because I know they are being playful, one of them used to be 180 and lost 20 or 30 lbs, he was saying something about getting back up there so maybe he's actually jealous? Guess we'll see.

Meanwhile my girlfriend who is 5'7" and 230lbs will now point to my tummy and declare "ooh, you chubby now!" and then I just say "no, you chubby!" And then I hug her and say "I not chubby yet!" We are silly. Eventually I will have to admit to being chubby though, but I don't feel chubby yet, I just feel "normal".

Morbidly A Beast:
I saw someone come at pickles in the thread and I just gotta say I hope you step on a lego, pickles are delicious

Wifestuffer:
In Japan it's complicated; there are so many pickles!

Some of them are sweet and tasty, some are salty or spicy, which I love too. Some taste to me like they were fermented in toe jam and piss.

Morbidly A Beast:
Spicy pickles are where it’s at. Honestly I just started throwing hot peppers in my pickle jars I get from the store gives them a bit of a kick

BigBallBellyGirl:
Have you tried sweet jalapeno pickles?? They're delicious!

Jstraw22:
For me recently, it was seeing a fresh stretch mark on my belly after thinking I’d been losing weight. Next thing I know I just finished 2 boxes of macaroni n cheese with a stick of butter and heavy cream instead of skim milk. I'm about to blow up 15 to 20 lbs in no time

Morbidly A Beast:
I saw someone come at pickles in the thread and I just gotta say I hope you step on a lego, pickles are delicious

Wifestuffer:
In Japan it's complicated; there are so many pickles!

Some of them are sweet and tasty, some are salty or spicy, which I love too. Some taste to me like they were fermented in toe jam and piss.

Morbidly A Beast:
I think there’s probably creeps who think fat people are vulnerable but then are btfo’d and sorely mistaken when they try their moves on people

Munchies:
I wish that it were that simple.

The fact of the matter is that a lot of fat women have internalized fatphobia. So, unfortunately, that can make some of them more vulnerable to manipulative, abusive people. They think this is the best it gets for them, so they end up tolerating things that they shouldn't have to tolerate.

That said, there are plenty of fat women who have enough self-respect to weed out most of these creeps. Sometimes the slyer creeps fly under the radar, so that will only get you so far.

Nok:
They are worse than human garbage, bordering on being truly evil. There are obligate predators, people like serial killers that are driven to do evil, but in the same way that I'm driven to eat chocolate or maybe someone with tourettes is driven to tick. As a society, we need to remove them, but their "evil" is overblown.

Then there are facultative predators and opportunists, people that do evil because they think it's fun and their bored or because it is moderately easier than something else (or, tbf, because they had it modelled for them by other people in their lives, friends, parents, etc.). People that intentionally cause pain and damage and are not "unwillingly" evil. Those people are truly among the worst humanity has to offer, imho, and I'd say the group you describe falls in that category.