My mother tried everything. Richard Simmons diets, Weight Watchers, Starch Stoppers, you name it. Never lost any weight. She’s over 300 pounds at 5’2” and she’s 89. Dieting would kill her.
“She’s over 300 pounds at 5’2” and she’s 89. Dieting would kill her.”
God bless her.
I don’t like being fat or looking fat. When I weigh less I have more energy and am more comfortable.
But that said you know I don’t think it’s all that bad for you in the grand scheme of things.
I think yo yo dieting is worse for you, for example.
There will be lots of anti-fatty comments in this thread. I get it. We hate the excuses and the lack of personal responsibility of “the fat.”
But I am telling you the truth and FReepers may or may not accept it: some people who are fat really don’t eat a ton of food. And some thin people eat like horses. I’ve seen it.
I still remember the reed thin father of my daughter’s bestie. She’d sleep over sometimes. He’d come home with a dozen doughnuts and eat 8 of them. When my daughter expressed astonishment she was told he did this all the time. He operated a restaurant and ate lots of heavy, meaty, fatty, delicious foods (a really nice restaurant). Just as thin as a reed and full of energy.
He eats probaby 5 to 6 x what I do in a day and I am twice as heavy. It’s not because he has some superior self control.
Similarly I know some heavier women who eat probably somewhere between 1000 and 1300 calories a day. They should not be overweight but they are. And no they are not bingeing when I’m not around, I am sure at least not most of them, some of whom I’ve lived with.
It is a physical equation but I am telling the equation differs from person to person.