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I'm fat (I see no shame in this word), my partner is not - she and I will order the same food, I clean my plate (starving children in africa related childhood t
by Aloha 4y ago
I'm fat (I see no shame in this word), my partner is not - she and I will order the same food, I clean my plate (starving children in africa related childhood trauma, I guess), she will often eat half of hers and leave the rest - she drinks the regular soda, and I have water, diet soda or unsweet iced tea.
I can't speak to your friends, but there is no universal truth here - I know a bunch of fat people, and none of them 'drown them in bbq sauce and mayo' - most of the thin people in my life and fat people in my life end up eating 'around' the same amount of food, but the thin people are physically often much more active.
- andreareina 4y agoNEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) is a huge confounder. Differences in fidgeting, walking around etc really add up.
- borroka 4y agoThey do. Working from home and working from office can easily make 3-500 calories of difference. Walking, calling, standing up, more energy expended in general. But also calories from modern food add up quickly. Say two men weighing 200 pounds, same activity levels. If man A eats "at maintenance" and man B eats at maintenance + small fries + small cookie + non-diet soda + apple, at the end of the day man A and B may not feel any difference in terms of "fullness" and "hunger", but man B is easily eating 800+ kcal a day than man A. Over months, I expect man B to get north of 20 pounds on man A. But I can see man B say to A, "I am not eating much more than you, just a little cookie here and there".