If someone is a size 12, do you think they are fat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Fat" is relative. I'm a size 18 and would love to be a size 12. That would be thin for me. The last time I was a size 12 was in 1988. I'm 41.

This is me as well. In high school I was very active, took PE every term whether it was required or not, played softball, ran or rode my bike after school etc. I was a size 9 pants and sometimes a 12 in the shirt because I had boobs. I did everything I could to try and be thin and it just wasn't in the cards. I'd be thrilled to be a size 12 again (hell, I'd settle for a 14) and if anyone tried to tell me I was fat I'd knock them into next week! It's those people calling everyone fat that are causing eating disorders in the first place. Get some self esteem, and if you can't do that then at least do us all a favor and keep your yap shut about your own weight issues.

[Anonymous]

I am 5'8" and at 140 (muscular and fit) I am a size ten. Small waist big hips and boobs. My daughter at 5'5" can be 140 and a size 6, maybe and 8. She carries it in her butt and legs. Other daughter at 5'8" is 135 and a size 4. Have no idea where she carries it. She looks very long and lean. Size means nothing. Thank god I have always told my daughters that . You who think it is about a size are nuts. We all look great in clothes and know what works on us. I think my daughter who is 5'5" is the happiest with her body. Think Sophia Vergara.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Size 12 is neither fat nor thin but just edging toward chubbiness.

this (obviously leaning more towards chubby as you get shorter)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Size 12 is neither fat nor thin but just edging toward chubbiness.

this (obviously leaning more towards chubby as you get shorter)

Yes, I agree.

Age is another important variable - size 12 at 60 seems more within the range of "normal" at that age. (And also looks better than size 4 at age 60, in my opinion, YMMV.) And before anybody jumps on me, I'm not saying size 20 at age 60 is healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i'm 5'6 and about 135 and I wear a 6/8. I think I look okay--I feel better at a straight 6 but that requires me to continually starve myself. As it is, people (friends) always refer to me as thin (which always takes me back because I don't "feel" thin. If I mention loosing weight I get the eye roll of "are you nuts? you're fine!".

If I gain 15 pounds (150), I'm a 10 and I"m definitely over weight. Not chubby per say but slightly overweight. I've never been a 12 (yet!) but on my frame that would mean 165 and I'd be quite chubby.

How old are you?

37

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 5'8" and at 140 (muscular and fit) I am a size ten. Small waist big hips and boobs. My daughter at 5'5" can be 140 and a size 6, maybe and 8. She carries it in her butt and legs. Other daughter at 5'8" is 135 and a size 4. Have no idea where she carries it. She looks very long and lean. Size means nothing. Thank god I have always told my daughters that . You who think it is about a size are nuts. We all look great in clothes and know what works on us. I think my daughter who is 5'5" is the happiest with her body. Think Sophia Vergara.

I'm 5'8" and 135 and a size 2/4. So funny how differently sized the same height/weight can be.

[Anonymous]

Report back when you're 47, PP. You might find that more weight looks better as you get older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Size 12 is neither fat nor thin but just edging toward chubbiness.

this (obviously leaning more towards chubby as you get shorter)

Again, it depends on the person's body type. I know this is impossible for some folks on this thread to believe but if you met me and I told you I was a size 14 you wouldn't believe me and I'm 5' 4".

[Anonymous]

Yup, i'm a size 12 and i"m fat. So what? I'm not in the market for a date and I'm not so fat it's detrimental to my health.

[Anonymous]

I'm the 50-year-old again, who wears a size 12. People really do wear clothing sizes differently. A year or so ago a boss tried to give me her size 6 skirts which no longer fit her, and I had to hand them back.

[Anonymous]

Because they were too big or too small?????

[Anonymous]

Holy cow people. There was a monster thread on this in Beauty/Fashion forum a few months ago that played out exactly like this.

Why don't we just take the lessons learned from that thread and move on? This is what came of it:

Today's size 12 was really a size 18 a few decades ago, and a size 18 in the US is really a size 22 in the UK, and obviously anyone who is a size 22 is obese. So yeah, obese.

Or something like that, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they were too big or too small?????

Too small. Really, read the post more carefully and it will be obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy cow people. There was a monster thread on this in Beauty/Fashion forum a few months ago that played out exactly like this.

Why don't we just take the lessons learned from that thread and move on? This is what came of it:

Today's size 12 was really a size 18 a few decades ago, and a size 18 in the US is really a size 22 in the UK, and obviously anyone who is a size 22 is obese. So yeah, obese.

Or something like that, anyway.

No, nothing like that, anyway. Size 12 in the US is size 14 in the UK. Think before you post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they were too big or too small?????

Duh, the poster who wears size 12 looks like she wears a 6.