Skinny people who think they know better...
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The skinny people I know eat horribly. Just this morning. Strawberry milk and doughnuts one posted. Just because someone is skinny doesnt make them healthy. THATS what I cant stand lol. I know a few who eat awful everyday. Well just bc youre skinny doesnt mean your arteries and heart are in great shape!0
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Just asking....
Do you think shes never had a weight problem because she watches her diet and works out? I used to be a skinny gal until I wasnt, lol. Ate what I wanted and stayed thin. When I turned 28 things changed. Anyway, my point is, when I realized I had crossed over to the dark side I started to work out. I saw all the skinny girls really working out hardcore. I thought to myself "why are they here, they are skinny". I came to realize they were skinny because they were working for it and always had.
Not all skinny people work for it, like what you said happened to you. Fit people, work for it. My sister was anorexic/skinny her whole life. She never exercised or watched what she ate once, was always shoving candy and junk food down her face, then when she started taking medication for her hyperthyroidism. BAM she ignored the doctor telling her to start eating healthy, she became fat and lazy and sits there eating VLCD shakes wondering why they aren't making her look like a model. Same thing happened with my brother only his age cough up with him. Now he always says, he can't eat ice cream without his butt inflating. As well as a friend of mine who is still skinny at 35 and eats hungry jacks all day everyday and can't even go for a walk, go up a flight of stairs or lift a few KG weights without complaining its too hard. I guess we are all different.
Skinny doesn't = healthy. Which is how i looked at this. I think when looking at someone who is fit and healthy i'd take there advice over someone who is skinny just as i would take advice from someone who has lost a lot of weight and has maintained for years. Then again i don't want to be skinny. I want to be fit like an athlete again. =D
Skinny and aneroxic are not the same thing.
Sigh. Imma file the above under "crap I can't believe needs said to other adults" BTW.0 -
The skinny people I know eat horribly. Just this morning. Strawberry milk and doughnuts one posted. Just because someone is skinny doesnt make them healthy. THATS what I cant stand lol. I know a few who eat awful everyday. Well just bc youre skinny doesnt mean your arteries and heart are in great shape!
Oh the horror. An entire donut with milk? ...Do you know everything she eats? I only posy tasty stuff, if I post my food on FB. I guess people are assuming I'm some unhealthy skinny person who enjoys flaming hot cheetos, ice cream, and cookies. Is that all she eats? I'm assuming she eats other things. ..0 -
I don't know squat about a healthy lifestyle0
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The skinny people I know eat horribly. Just this morning. Strawberry milk and doughnuts one posted. Just because someone is skinny doesnt make them healthy. THATS what I cant stand lol. I know a few who eat awful everyday. Well just bc youre skinny doesnt mean your arteries and heart are in great shape!
Oh the horror. An entire donut with milk? ...Do you know everything she eats? I only posy tasty stuff, if I post my food on FB. I guess people are assuming I'm some unhealthy skinny person who enjoys flaming hot cheetos, ice cream, and cookies. Is that all she eats? I'm assuming she eats other things. ..
If we're going off Facebook/instagram people must think I eat nothing but cookies and pie. ...not that such an assumption would be totally baseless.0 -
The skinny people I know eat horribly. Just this morning. Strawberry milk and doughnuts one posted. Just because someone is skinny doesnt make them healthy. THATS what I cant stand lol. I know a few who eat awful everyday. Well just bc youre skinny doesnt mean your arteries and heart are in great shape!
Oh the horror. An entire donut with milk? ...Do you know everything she eats? I only posy tasty stuff, if I post my food on FB. I guess people are assuming I'm some unhealthy skinny person who enjoys flaming hot cheetos, ice cream, and cookies. Is that all she eats? I'm assuming she eats other things. ..
If we're going off Facebook/instagram people must think I eat nothing but cookies and pie. ...not that such an assumption would be totally baseless.
I bet your heart and arteries are in great shape though.
Because magic.0 -
Don't you just love know it all's, especially the skinny ones.0
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Don't you just love know it all's, especially the skinny ones.
It's the skinny ones you have to watch out for. Slipping into cracks in the floor and spyings on everyone. Can't trust em.0 -
I have a manager that seriously thinks you have to eat 6 meals a day or you'll gain weight. What even is that? A diet for hobbits? How do people eat 6 meals a day and still have time for jobs or school?
My manager's mom was a real health nut in the 80s and some of the cutting edge science of the day has really left a lasting impression on her. Like eating more than one egg in a day will kill you, and the best way to lose weight is a 900 calorie diet indefinitely.
Some "skinny people who think they know better" are skinny because they make a calorie deficit from some of the most roundabout ways. Some posters think that the results justify the methods; a skinny person MUST be smarter/healthier/better than an overweight person because reasons. I think skinny people are allowed to be unhealthy or uneducated like the rest of us.0 -
Scoot over, I'll bring the beer . . .0 -
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I had a fun back and forth with a guy I never met on facebook after his comment of:
"I see obese people in the lifting area, they really need to get on a treadmill".
Aw hayl naw
Ahaaaha this cracked me up! Exactly what I was thinking!0 -
i also believed in santa clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunnyI firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
As a child I very strongly believed I would hit puberty and gain mutant powers.0 -
I firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
have you actually researched that phenomenon of the skinny friend that always eats thousands of calories, never exercises and never gains weight?
overwhelming evidence of studies with dlw have shown this not to be the case, but if you have evidence beyond the 'I've known ...' it would be good to see0 -
Eating 35% below your TDEE while losing weight isn't healthy at all...
As a blanket statement that is incorrect - having occasional, or even regular, days of eating TDEE-35% is perfectly fine. I do this regularly, as my body is much happier, healthier and stronger (not to mention sheds pounds better) when I go through cycles of huge deficits mixed with cycles of higher intake. The PSMF folks take this to the nth degree, running cycles in the neighbourhood of TDEE-65% - I personally have not done that plan, but may do so in the future.
Furthermore, a 35% deficit for someone obese is just fine, even if done regularly, over an extended period of time. The dieter just has to make sure base nutritional requirements are met.
You're simply flat out wrong on this, and there is a ton of research backing it up.
If it's a regular thing, it's fine for obese people... who don't mind losing a lot of muscle in the process.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this. I'm definitely not flat out wrong.
if said obese person is lifting weight and getting adequate protein intake then they will not lose "a lot" of muscle.0 -
i also believed in santa clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunnyI firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
As a child I very strongly believed I would hit puberty and gain mutant powers.
My older brother jumped off the roof of a three story house as a kid because, well, "cape."0 -
Everyone knows what has worked for them (to stay thin or to become thin), when some one tells you how they did it don't think that they are telling you what to do. Take it for what it is... an exchange of ideas, it's one more thing to try, one more idea, maybe not for today but for later when you run out of ideas.0
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Everyone knows what has worked for them (to stay thin or to become thin), when some one tells you how they did it don't think that they are telling you what to do. Take it for what it is... an exchange of ideas, it's one more thing to try, one more idea, maybe not for today but for later when you run out of ideas.
Except me. If it's me, I'm pretty much telling you what to do.0 -
i also believed in santa clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunnyI firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
As a child I very strongly believed I would hit puberty and gain mutant powers.
We didn't do Santa in my house. My mom didn't want some old white man taking credit for the gifts she bought with her hard earned money.0 -
OP - based on your previous posts in this thread I think that you were actually wrong in the advice you gave….just my two cents...0
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i also believed in santa clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunnyI firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
As a child I very strongly believed I would hit puberty and gain mutant powers.
We didn't do Santa in my house. My mom didn't want some old white man taking credit for the gifts she bought with her hard earned money.
did anyone ever "do" Santa…? I thought he was a virgin…?0 -
i also believed in santa clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunnyI firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
As a child I very strongly believed I would hit puberty and gain mutant powers.
We didn't do Santa in my house. My mom didn't want some old white man taking credit for the gifts she bought with her hard earned money.
did anyone ever "do" Santa…? I thought he was a virgin…?
Poor Mrs. Clause didn't ever get none?0 -
i also believed in santa clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunnyI firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
As a child I very strongly believed I would hit puberty and gain mutant powers.
We didn't do Santa in my house. My mom didn't want some old white man taking credit for the gifts she bought with her hard earned money.
did anyone ever "do" Santa…? I thought he was a virgin…?
Isn't he married?0 -
i also believed in santa clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunnyI firmly believe that some people just get lucky with an amazing metabolism. I've known people personally who ate ~5000 cals a day, exercised little, and stayed skinny (although whether they are healthy is debatable). Meanwhile, here I am gaining weight on a meager 1500 cals/day. I've always wondered if these lucky people know they are gifted, or if they think overweight people must all be eating 15,000 cals/day. On the flipside, the "skinny woman" mentioned by the OP may have a lifelong eating disorder and believe that the key to staying thin is limiting oneself to 500 cals/day.
As a child I very strongly believed I would hit puberty and gain mutant powers.
We didn't do Santa in my house. My mom didn't want some old white man taking credit for the gifts she bought with her hard earned money.
did anyone ever "do" Santa…? I thought he was a virgin…?
Isn't he married?
Is that where the elves come from?0 -
Skinny doesn't always mean healthy. I've know many skinny/slim women who were physically weak and sick a lot, but they were praised for being thin
My mother is about 100lbs, 5'2" and super thin. Again she is told how great she looks. She smokes a pack day and eats like a bird. She has terrible health0 -
I want my invitation to Professor Xavier's school now. As a telepath I feel it is necessary. I foresaw the skinny shaming...acolypse.0
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If she gave good advice then it doesn't matter her weight, size, fitness.
If she gave bad advice, then that is annoying.
I don't give advice unless people ask me and then I give the advice that I know about such as strength training with proper form, counting calories If that is what they want to do, calorie deficit, not too restrictive, protein, good nutrition is also nice as well however you manage it. I can't be their therapist and help them with emotional eating or binge eating, unless their issues are related to sexual abuse then I can support them very well with the underlying issue in most circumstances. Even though binge eating has never been my issue I can relate to certain emotional states which lead to coping mechanisms. If that is the issue.
And just because someone is slim doesn't mean they wouldn't eat all the calorie laden food in the world if it did not lead to weight gain. I mean we like the taste of yummy food also.
I've never had a weight issue, but because I'm very fit and have had two babies and I'm 35, and I am fitness oriented, people will sometimes ask my advice. I'm also a dancer and other dancers will ask advice.
I didn't read all the comments or really much past the first few. I know some people don't like that, but I really don't have time to read the forums.
Also, I am slim and fit and healthy, and I eat over 2000 calories a day, but it's not magic (just keep within my TDEE and I'm active).0 -
Everyone knows what has worked for them (to stay thin or to become thin), when some one tells you how they did it don't think that they are telling you what to do. Take it for what it is... an exchange of ideas, it's one more thing to try, one more idea, maybe not for today but for later when you run out of ideas.
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The skinny people I know eat horribly. Just this morning. Strawberry milk and doughnuts one posted. Just because someone is skinny doesnt make them healthy. THATS what I cant stand lol. I know a few who eat awful everyday. Well just bc youre skinny doesnt mean your arteries and heart are in great shape!
Please stop. :noway:0 -
Was this "internet argument" on MFP?0
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