[csmusaret]

All those people trying to explain why so many people are fat have obviously never watched fat people eat. It is not what they eat that makes them fat but the humongeous amount of food they consume. Fat people are prodigous eaters. That is why they are fat.

[Ingtar]

I am a fat person. A nutritionist has monitored my eating. You know what? I am not a prodigious eater. In fact, my current food choices are, if anything, bulkier than my old and I have lost 50 pounds “eating more.” It is what you eat, how your body reacts, and how active you are that matter. What works for me is likely not to work for you.

[Hodar]

You have a valid point. The balance a healthy body has, is that the appetite is governed by the number of calories the body believes it needs.

When a person gets obese, this balance is thrown out of kilter; a fat person is ALWAYS hungry. No matter how much he consumes, in an hour his body is telling him that he is hungry. Hunger is not a fun, enjoyable sensation; yet for the fat person, hunger pains are real, and they are far more frequent than in a thin person.

Ask anyone you know who was obese and lost the weight. They will tell you how amazing it is that they can survive on the amount of food they now consume; and that when they were ‘big’ they were hungry all of the time.

It’s a problem that is metabolic, it’s genetic, it’s psychological and it’s physical. No obese person likes being obese, I doubt you’ll find one person in the US population that is obese that doesn’t wish they were thin.

[Just A Nobody]

Fat people are prodigous eaters.

You LIE.

[ravingnutter]

That's a pretty wide brush you are swinging there. I gained 35 lbs. on steroid injections that I have to take for painful arthritis and until I can get my hip replacement, I am not allowed to exercise per doctor's orders. I eat like a bird, do not use sugar, do not eat fried foods and most days I skip dinner. My sister takes Prednisone as she has Meniere's Disease, she also very eats very little and is overweight from the medication. We jokingly refer to ourselves as the "Steroid Sisters". So, no, we are not fat because we eat too much. There are medical conditions and medications that can cause people to gain weight.

[calex59]

All those people trying to explain why so many people are fat have obviously never watched fat people eat. It is not what they eat that makes them fat but the humongeous amount of food they consume. Fat people are prodigous eaters. That is why they are fat.

I would suspect you don't know many fat people. A great many fat people eat very little. Yes, some are large eaters, many are not. What they all lack is exercise. I would suspect that Bozo will have us all working our tails off for the government and starving if he has his way, not to mention freezing to death in the dark without electricity.

[RipSawyer]

“All those people trying to explain why so many people are fat have obviously never watched fat people eat. It is not what they eat that makes them fat but the humongeous amount of food they consume. Fat people are prodigous eaters. That is why they are fat.”
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Actually it is not so simple. I have fought a weight problem for years, I went froma chubby fourteen year old to a stringbean Navy recruit and have evolved through many incarnations from skinny to fat to muscular and back to fat and now back to muscular. The biggest factor is probably WHAT you eat followed by exercise. I defy anyone to go on a diet of tomatoes, celery, boiled unsalted rice etc. and become anything other than skinny, if you eat the right foods you cannot consume enough to be fat, this is proven.

I know from experience that I can eat protein only and lose weight but that is an unhealthy diet and I cannot stay on it long. I also know from experience that I can go an a carbohydrate only diet and lose weight as long as I stay away from sweets, I can last longer on that than on high protein only. As soon as I combine meat and carbs I start to gain weight.

Currently I do heavy weight lifting three times a week along with cardio. I eat pretty much what I want to and at six four I weigh 265 pounds, obese by the weight chart but I wear a size 52 jacket and size 38 waist jeans, the jeans are starting to get loose on me. According to the charts I am obese but people tell me I look great. I am not quite at the six pack stage but am starting to see definition in my abs. Where I used to have a double chin I have only the slightly wrinkled turkey neck that comes from age. The fun part is being much stronger than the vast majority of much younger men.

I watched a very interesting documentary on TV once. It was all about the loggers who used to cut trees with hand tools only. They described the average oldtime logger as around five eight and one hundred and fifty five pounds and they were reported to have consumed seven to eight THOUSAND calories a day.

In summation, HOW MUCH a person eats is far from being the whole story.

[Mase]

Fat people are prodigous eaters. That is why they are fat.

No, it has to be their genetics. It can't be their fault. //sarc

[Jeff Chandler]

It is not what they eat that makes them fat but the humongeous amount of food they consume. Fat people are prodigous eaters. That is why they are fat.

Calories in - calories out. What you eat, how much you eat, how much you exercise, your genetics, your metabolism, your medical condition, your big bones - these are all factors, but in the end it comes down to calories in - calories out. That's a physical fact.

[Grunthor]

“Fat people are prodigous eaters. That is why they are fat.”

I am fat. I consume less than 1000 calories per day. I am fat because I am a lazy bass turd.