Two Kinds of Fat People

I don't know but I love the breakfast club and don't forget the character who said it was kind of an A hole!

There are two kinds of fat people.

There's the kind that decide they don't want to be fat anymore and do something about it.
And there's the kind that stay fat.

How that got that way is completely irrelevant and none of your business. Don't make someone's type, past or genetics another hurdle for them to deal with. It's hard enough as it is.

There are no fat folks, but maybe they are just way fluffy. Now, get rid of fast food, rediscover walking, and if you can a bicycle. Most bikes hang in garages for years, just check it out..

I don't agree.

The ability to pile on the fat during periods of plenty and burn it during lean times is a survival feature of many creatures, humans included. It is part of our evolution. If we were still in the stone age, many of those people who did not stack on the weight during summer and autumn would die in winter. This means that people who put on fat easily are, under stone age circumstances, the survival superior to those who do not. The problem is that the lean times of the stone age no longer occur every year and the accumulated fat is not burned off. And, like it or not, genetically we are still in the stone age.

Then we have the situation where the human body undergoes changes as we age. In the mid to late twenties, most humans finally stop growing and a change occurs in the hormonal balance. This predisposes most of us to put on weight more easily. Then there are others who never seem to put on weight. Not all of this is due to self-discipline. Some people's hormonal balance stays "young" and their body processes calories differently making it easier for them to keep their weight down. I have two sons in their early thirties. One watches what he eats all the time and struggles to keep his weight under control. The other eats everything that comes within arm's length and never puts on a kilo.

I despair when I read young people saying how easy it is for them to keep their weight down when they haven't even stopped growing yet. Wait until you are in your mid-thirties before you assess your weight-maintaining abilities. When I was 26, I was 50Kg (under my minimum according to BMI) and I ate about 7000 calories per day (no joke). I could not put on weight no matter what. At 28 I was in the high 70KGs and only eating in the 2500 calorie region.

So how do we combat the continual plenty and bodily changes problems? We could simulate the stone age and starve ourselves during winter. No thanks! I don't think that many of us would come at that. Or we could simulate lean times permanently by limiting our food intake. A much more acceptable technique I think.

What I am saying is that there are those of us for whom fat accumulation is easier than others and that this ease of accumulation can change. We are all different but the solution is the same - match what comes in to what goes out.

The only way you become fat is to eat too much. Even people with a family history of obesity are not destined to become fat. Fat is not genetic.



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Also, I think it's all attitude. You can wish to be skinny all you want, but until something snaps you're not going to work at it.

What about third kind of fat people? Fat all your life but then become fit?

The movie quote is silly and is a sneering attempt at mild abuse. There are people who are more prone to becoming fat because they are wired differently to others. For some of us its an addiction and you can't use abstinence as a way to get over it. Unless you've lived with it, you probably can't understand. That's why the majority of personal trainers (who are well motivated) cant grasp the problem in the first place.

Wired in what way? Calorie surplus and deficit work for ANYONE who isn't suffering from a health/hormone issue. Sorry, but I don't buy it. Doing this for professionally for more than 16 years, I've taken the same people you've mentioned and helped them attain and sustain a normal weight. I just got them to think different about themselves.

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I am a person who started off thin, became fat, and have lost it back off. I became fat through two reasons. One is hypothyroidism, which is now properly medicated, and the other reason is eating disordered behavior that came from .... let's just say messed up things occurring during formative years.