'you're fat therefore you were eating too much food'... NO

trudijoy

I'm so sick of seeing this 'logic' splashed over the boards. I ate less when I was big than I do now. I just ate different, more calorific food. When people say they are struggling to get to calories it's sometimes because they are genuine about doing this and they have restricted themselves to lean meat, veges, and not much else, all really low fat and low cal, because that is what they heard for years and they don't know that there is another, more effective way.

People being sanctimonious and throwing about the 'you must know how to eat because you're fat' line is ridiculous. Everyones scenario is a little bit different and while the same solution (in variations) will work for everyone, NOT everyone is fat because they ate too much bulk of food, their balance was simply off. Or, like me, they had an accident and that, coupled with a thyroid problem and (at the time) ignorance of BMR led me to put on weight.

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SirBonerFart

You're wrong

TyTy76

DopeItUp

Huh?

Acg67

I'm so sick of seeing this 'logic' splashed over the boards. I ate less when I was big than I do now. I just ate different, more calorific food. When people say they are struggling to get to calories it's sometimes because they are genuine about doing this and they have restricted themselves to lean meat, veges, and not much else, all really low fat and low cal, because that is what they heard for years and they don't know that there is another, more effective way.

People being sanctimonious and throwing about the 'you must know how to eat because you're fat' line is ridiculous. Everyones scenario is a little bit different and while the same solution (in variations) will work for everyone, NOT everyone is fat because they ate too much bulk of food, their balance was simply off. Or, like me, they had an accident and that, coupled with a thyroid problem and (at the time) ignorance of BMR led me to put on weight.

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Replace food with calories in your topic title and the no to yes

DavPul

trogalicious

TheGymGypsy

So you're saying you ate less food but you still ate more calories? Didn't you just contradict your whole post? :grumble:

fivethreeone

False logic. Too much food does not mean that your piece of cake was too big; it means too many calories.

The volume of food you eat has nothing to do with the number of calories it contains.

pastryari

I'm so sick of seeing this 'logic' splashed over the boards. I ate less when I was big than I do now. I just ate different, more calorific food. When people say they are struggling to get to calories it's sometimes because they are genuine about doing this and they have restricted themselves to lean meat, veges, and not much else, all really low fat and low cal, because that is what they heard for years and they don't know that there is another, more effective way.

People being sanctimonious and throwing about the 'you must know how to eat because you're fat' line is ridiculous. Everyones scenario is a little bit different and while the same solution (in variations) will work for everyone, NOT everyone is fat because they ate too much bulk of food, their balance was simply off. Or, like me, they had an accident and that, coupled with a thyroid problem and (at the time) ignorance of BMR led me to put on weight.

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You contradict yourself. See the bolded above. Is it bulk of food or bulk of calories? If you got fat, you were eating at a caloric surplus. End of story.


Also, obviously getting into an accident and medical conditions are the exception. But that's not usually the case for the average overweight individual. Unless they state that either of those is the case, then you're wrong.

be_dazzled

Fair point but it's not true for everyone. Personally I was fat because I was greedy and lazy

paxbfl

Replace food with calories in your topic title and the no to yes

^THIS

It's not the food, it's the calories in the food.

So what? You were still eating too much.

What's dangerous about your "logic" is that many people try to deflect the blame for their weight to some rare medical condition or whatever. I was 55 pounds overweight because I really like to eat, and I ate too much. The blame is 100% mine. Period.

Contrarian

No. What people say is "You were consuming too many calories." Not too much food.

And they are correct.

Iron_Lotus

LOL!

UsedToBeHusky

False logic. Too much food does not mean that your piece of cake was too big; it means too many calories.

The volume of food you eat has nothing to do with the number of calories it contains.

Hmmm... this feels a bit like the lb of fat vs lb of muscle debate.

OP - Volume is implied!

TheSlorax

So I'm confused, you're saying you weren't eating a lot of FOOD, but you were eating a lot of CALORIES? You're upset that people assume that you consumed too much FOOD, as in too much volume? Kinda splitting hairs, you ate too much of something which lead to you being overweight. I ate too much of everything which made me fat. I'm not gonna sit here and get pissy because people can't tell what my eating habits are like by looking at me. I wouldn't be fat if I hadn't eaten too much of something, whether it be volume or calories.

k8blujay2

See herein lies the problem. Now you are counting your calories and watching your intake... and while you say you ate less food before, you probably just don't remember the handful of chips here, the cookie there... it adds up even if you don't count it or realize you are eating.

jonnythan

If you were fat, you ate too much food.

AlongCame_Molly

mommabenefield

PepperWorm

In for fail logic.

djeffreys10

Your premise is, well, wrong. Yes, they were eating too much. People can lose weight eating nothing but cake. But if they eat too much cake, they will gain weight.

How calorie dense the food is determines what too much of the food is. In calorie dense food, less volume is still too much. So yes, they were eating too much.

barkin43

Yup, eating too much [wrong kind of] food. That's my story.......




And I'm sticking to it!

_Waffle_

I'm so sick of seeing this 'logic' splashed over the boards. I ate less when I was big than I do now. I just ate different, more calorific food.

4 donuts OR 2 bananas, an apple, and 20 grapes. I'm eating so much more now.

DiabolicBooger

people tend to use medical conditions as excuses for their over eating. like everyone else I here stated, You are dead wrong!

nomeejerome

OP:
I think you might be a bit con.fus.ed.

MoreBean13

1/10 for incorrectness

usmcmp

When they say you're fat therefore you were eating too much, they mean calories. Which is true by the way.

IamOnMywayNow

OP are you for realz? That makes NO sense!!

eric_sg61

In on roll bread

TheSlorax

OP:
I think you might be a bit con.fus.ed.

I for one am very confused. I don't really understand how eating too much and being fat is not at all like, well, eating too much and being fat.