So so fat?
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- inv0
One bite at a time, that's how.
- BuddhaHat0
I think you nailed it. When one of my friends was approaching 350 pounds, he was making pizzas with 7 kinds of cheese on top, and takeout chinese or indian for him and his wife would be 5 or 6 dishes easy. Add booze on top of that, with absolutely zero exercise, and you become a big doughy puddle rather quickly. He cut down on booze and started kick-boxing about 6 months ago, and is around 250 pounds and still shedding weight, thank god.
- mekk0
- Not even foodset
- not even cheese on top?monospaced
- Cheese is fattening. Don't be silly.CyBrainX
- :Dmonospaced
- freedom0
- celebrity biggest loser here we come...BuddhaHat
- Is this real? I assumed it was make up for a part the first time I saw it.Wolfboy
- he looks like a cartoonbenfal99
- it's a role. actors play roles.inteliboy
- yeah, he's a softymonospaced
- "I see fat people"Ramanisky2
- Fax_Benson0
Like most activities that people continue, even though they know they're count-productive, there's probably an underlying psychological issue.
- this. it's an addiction, or mental/emotional disorder.sine
- underlying psychological issue being no respect for themselvesdoesnotexist
- yeah, probably, that's the pointFax_Benson
- sine0
- Xopher0
There are so many forms of addiction, but this one happens to be extremely visible on the outside.
Don't judge. We all deal with mental issues differently.
- set0
Most of the food that fat unhealthy people eat is so low in nutritional value that their bodies are not ever satisfied.
They can eat all day every day and never get the right amount of vitamins and nutrients, because what they are eating is stodgy cardboard shite, and so they always feel like they need more. It's not the volume it's the quality.
This is what most people don't realise. Cutting down on what you eat isn't going to help if what you eat doesn't have much nutritional value.
- Eat proper food and the burning desire to constantly eat will go away.set
- benfal990
I started collecting all the data of what i'm eating into MyFitnessPal app and It's crazy how fast we can reach our calories limit in a day. We eat way too much in general. and dont move enough.
- Ianbolton0
I eat waaaaaaay too much, but have weighed pretty much exactly the same for about 20 years. I also hate myself. When do I start piling on the pounds?
- When your metabolism slows down and can't process all that food, probably.BuddhaHat
- PS. no idea about the self-loathing...BuddhaHat
- when you turn 32monospaced
- lol mono, that's pretty close to when I started stacking it on... riding to work is the only thing keeping it under controlBuddhaHat
- wordmonospaced
- I was lucky enough to stay thin until 32 with almost no effort... now I struggle to stay at a stable weightmonospaced
- gained maybe 20 lbs in the 3 years and am close to 200lbs now at age 35monospaced
- I SHOULD be 180 or somonospaced
- inteliboy0
I can totally understand the way to let go and get a beer gut. Good pasta, deserts, chocolate, beer, eating out a lot, too busy for exercise etc.
But to become a fat fuck obese whale? Yeah, it boggles my mind as well. That blob ankle physique is insane.
Then again, ever seen the kind of "recipes" that are posted on reddit that get attention? Shit is like cookie dough pizzas and bacon wrapped burritos - whilst all the comments rave about how delicious it looks. Ugh. It's like they never grow past the taste buds of an 8 year old.
- This is a good example of said reddit posts http://imgur.com/a/M…BuddhaHat
- monospaced0
Building upon what set wrote above, I've noticed that the obese people I do know simply do not LIKE eating vegetables or fruits, which I find really hard to understand.
- sauce?organicgrid
- you know what I'm sayingmonospaced
- meat sauceset
- I'm simply agreeing with what set said, and pointing out something I noticed... that fat people don't eat vegetables because they don't like themmonospaced
- they don't like them.monospaced
- Picky eaters eat everything else.freedom
- lowimpakt0
a small part of the problem is that less healthy food is cheaper, more widely available and convenient.
- disagreemonospaced
- disagreeApeRobot
- i agree. studies proved that many time. Junk food is everywhere in poor area of Montreal, for exemple.benfal99
- True. Cheap, easy made food is always carb/sugar/sodium loaded.ETM
- How can you disagree with all the data? Eating healthy is super expensive... Walk into any Whole foods versus say Iceland here in the UK...necromation
- the UKnecromation
- buying expensive health crap from whole foods is NOT the same as buying actual "whole" foods and producemonospaced
- Produce is straight and simple fucking CHEAP. I'm talking veggies and beans n' shitmonospaced
- Buying wheat crackers and special 'healthy' juices that are overpackaged is expensive, and FUCK whole foods for thatmonospaced
- I wouldn't say its cheaper, but its certainly more convenient.instrmntl
- scarabin0
seems like a full-time job staying that big
- autoflavour0
250lbs tho isnt that big.. its definitely not melty women in the picture big..
- its definitely overweight.. no denying it.. but its not that hard to get thereautoflavour
- monospaced0
It's so upsetting that people complain that healthy food is too expensive. Sure, there's a premium if your idea of healthy food is the outrageous health offerings from a store like Whole Foods. That place's whole model is based on rich people who will pay a premium. But what I'm referring to is more the produce. When I was poor, I bought actual "whole foods" like organic chickens, fresh vegetables, and I cooked them.
I think part of the problem is that a lot of people are just too damn lazy to eat healthy. Nobody cooks anymore! I can buy enough veggies and produce to feed a dozen people at $30. Everything from sweet potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, zucchini, to organic chickens and real spices. If people understood that healthy can be had without going through the overpackaged health isles at Whole Foods, then they might stop complaining about it being so expensive.
- OF COURSE the fast-food offerings are more readily available, they're for lazy fucks who won't take time to prepare foodmonospaced
- canned vegis and fruit are far cheaper and then also don't require preplocustsloth
- Also, one organic chicken costs way more per meal than say chicken nuggetslocustsloth
- Not sure where you shopped when you were "poor"locustsloth
- People in poor neighborhoods also don't have great access to produce.freedom
- can not pay for food, but can pay an iphone 6, 4k tv,silly useless gadgets,pricey brands....ApeRobot
- ...we all got priority.ApeRobot
- i'm talking about mid class.ApeRobot
- such bullshit... an organic whole chicken costs $12, the price of a box or two of nuggets... that's 5lbs vs 1monospaced
- Again, not sure where you are shopping. Unless teh nuggets were organic and free rangelocustsloth
- All natural (not even organic) chicken here is $4/lb vs Tyson Chick Nugg at ~$2.50/lblocustsloth
- Not to mention that the breading fills a stomach more and that prep and additional ingredients are next to nothinglocustsloth
- You are so face down in your own situation, mono that you can't pick your head up and actually realize what others go thrulocustsloth
- thru.locustsloth
- you are so face down in your own shit that you make bullshit assumptions about my life, but I guarantee I know more than youmonospaced
- Not assuming anything you arrogant fuck, just basing it on what you said, you pompous dickbaglocustsloth
- you may not actually be mentally handicapped, mono, but you are certainly a social retardlocustsloth
- MrT0
Healthy food is not too expensive, people just don't know what to do with it. I just watched Fed Up and although there are better docs about the food industry, those kids who couldn't lose weight but were eating low fat 'reformulations' of already crappy food was really sad.
I don't think organic matters that much either, aside from often being an excuse to be ripped off and that the certification is a government/federal issue (certainly in the US, EU and here in Aus), if you're eating non-organic fruit, veg and meat, it's still better than anything from a packet or a fast food counter.
- monNom0
Cooking takes time. Prep/cook/clean up after a standard dinner for 4 and you're looking at 1-1.5hrs total time. In a two income situation, with long commutes, maybe second jobs (skewing toward lower income families, which have the most obesity problems), and all the other demands of our time, the frozen food isle and McDonalds are more about saving time than saving money.
Just a theory.
- <<instrmntl
- if you're too lazy to cook for an hour or so, then you deserve to eat fast food shit and die of obesitymonospaced
- fact is, the majority of the planet can figure this out, it's only lazy fat fucks that forgot what being human ismonospaced
- Agree it's not as simple as a lot of posts (inc mine) make it. But what you and your family eat should be #1 on the list.MrT
- lowimpakt0
"Eating well is increasingly become the preserve of the rich, according to a study showing that the price gap between healthy and unhealthy foods is widening.
Products officially designated as healthy by the Government now cost an average of three times more than less healthy alternatives, said the researchers, who tracked the prices of 94 key food and drink items between 2002 and 2012.
Healthier food such as fruit and vegetables was found to be consistently more expensive than those high in fat and sugar, such as frozen pizza. They have also risen more sharply in price over the 10-year period."
- ArmandoEstrada0
My local supermarket sells Honey Crisp apples for $1.99 a pound (US). I could buy 1 or two apples or get value meal at McD.
- Good luck convincing Americans to eat apples for meals.bainbridge
- Fuck off. Plenty of healthy Americans you nitwit.marychain
- Honey Crisps are like the most expensive apples around...zarkonite
- why so mad marychain?mekk
- Good luck convincing me that one or two apples is going to fill me up better at lunchtime than some shitty McDdetritus
- ..and man, do I fucking love apples.detritus