Why do fat people say "I would be dead if I weighed that much"? (kind of rant) This 200 pound transfat and I were discussing weight loss, she's one of the fatorexics. She binges and purges for attention. Considers eating cake, chips, quesadillas and cookies all before 3 pm "not that bad".  I asked her what her goal weight was, and she was like "I don't know, probably 150." 150 at 5'5 is still fat. Just barely not overweight. Skinnyfat, if you will. I told her 120-125 would be more ideal and she got so up in arms. "Bro I would be dead. I'm just really big in general." Like, if you've been fat your whole life, how can you claim that you would be dead at a certain weight?