Fat America

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  • smokinjackd
    smokinjackd Posts: 341
    McDonalds, not just for brunch anymore, dinner you say, what will they think of next.
  • DexterDarko
    DexterDarko Posts: 235
    It is pretty sad, but i myself am one of them and my problem was that I isolated myself and had been depressed ever since my teenage years. But I never went out to eat fast food or anything, I just exercised NEVER in those years and always gave up if I did. My diet was horrible aswell and nobody was helping me see that, I was just urged on.

    Anybody who's comfortable in their own skin and is as big as me, could use a wake up call.

    Seriously, I could eat like 3000 calories and do the amount of exercise I'm doing and in a year be close to my weight loss goal, but I'm usually stuffed at around 1000 calories and have to eat more on a full stomach.
  • Yieya
    Yieya Posts: 168 Member
    i like fat people waaay more than i like self righteous a**holes.... just saying.

    ^^^ this^^^
  • Lulu_nz
    Lulu_nz Posts: 4 Member
    On my few visits to USA I have wondered at the portions of food I was served and the obsession with sugar. I read nutrition labels and was stunned at the frequent use of corn syrup and trans fats in over the counter ready foods. First visit, I was confused by the butter being white until I realised it was because the cows don't eat grass, they eat cheap starchy grains. So do the poultry, living in a way that means they grow abnormally large in the fastest time possible in order to yield more meat. All of this adds to the carb, starch and sugar of food. And that stuff will create compulsion, will stimulate over eating, will store in the body as fat and confuse the heck out of our bodies. This is the stuff of diabetes type 2 before puberty.

    People do not seem to understand what they are putting in their bodies. Or when they do, they are so obsessed with the notion of freedom that they see their right to consume a litre of soda as being more important than their health.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    I read the other day that the average American eats upwards of 2,700 calories daily. That's so unfathomable to me, but I guess when you're eating processed garbage that doesn't fill you up it's a lot easier to consume that many calories than it would be to eat 2,700 calories of whole foods? It's still disturbing, anyway.
    People have been eating 2500-2700 calories in the US for well over 200 years. It's not a new thing. The new thing is the fact that we aren't physically active anymore. Everyone works in an office, rather than in a factory or on a farm. The "calories in" part of the weight management equation hasn't honestly changed much in several hundred thousand years (early man averaged a little over 3000 calories a day,) it's the "calories out" side that has drastically changed.
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    Tommy Posts: 127 Member
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