[pearljam]

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I can assure you that we fat people would be unable to pick our fat asses out of a lineup of asses.

We have no idea HOW fat we are. We know we're fat--but we don't realize HOW fat. I don't know what is happening inside our brains, but there is some sort of "denial dial", and in our case, it is turned up to ten.

I'm shocked--shocked!--every time I see myself in a mirror. That's every day. Tomorrow morning, I'll wake up, walk in the bathroom, see myself in the mirror...and be taken by surprise once again. I'm not joking.

And photographs are even worse.

Ever see The Simpsons where Robert Stack is doing the voice of a tough detective? He gets in Comic Book Guy's face and says, "Tell me what you know, tubby!"

Comic Book Guy, indignant, barks, "Who are you calling tubby?" He then looks down at his gut. His shoulders slump, and he says, "Oh."

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so true, good post.