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Anecdote: throughout my life, on many occasions, I've gone on multi-month binges of over-consuming massive quantities (1500+ cals) of desserts on a daily basis,

by notfed 3y ago

Anecdote: throughout my life, on many occasions, I've gone on multi-month binges of over-consuming massive quantities (1500+ cals) of desserts on a daily basis, while retaining a sedentary lifestyle. I always seem to weigh the same weight (skinny). I realized I've been doing this over the past month. I weighed myself yesterday. Same weight. Clearly something is different about my body, at least when it comes to sugar calories. It just doesn't seem to readily convert it to fat. Is it really that hard to believe that some people's bodies actually behave a little more rationally than most?

nradov 3y ago
It really is that hard to believe. Have you ever had a resting metabolic rate test? Have you ever gone several weeks carefully tracking everything you consume using an accurate food scale? I am skeptical that even during binge periods you were really taking in as many calories as you claim. That said, there are limits to what the human digestive system can absorb from a single meal. Binge eaters do sometimes exceed that limit and just poop out the excess without storing it as fat.
- psd1 3y ago
  Lol. We exist. I got the taste for raspberry ripple ice cream in my mid-20s, and ate 10 litres a week - that's 2000+ kcal a day just in dessert. That's not binging. I put that on top of 500g dry weight of pasta with cheese and sauce, and kept it up for months. Plus breakfast, lunch, and several beers. And packets of chocolate biscuits. I was covering 10km a week or less, no marathons. No tapeworms, either. You may be right that I was shitting a lot of it out; the horrible shits are what turned me off the ice cream habit. Nonetheless, I ate well over 4000 kcal every day, for years, and never put on weight. 6000 was typical. And most of that was potatoes and wheat, which are very bio-available carbs. I've always been a black hole for food. I suspect I radiate it as heat. Exes have told me I'm hot - in a caloric sense. I feel the cold more, now that I eat less. To the overweight, if it helps at all, know that I have other struggles.
hombre_fatal 3y ago
You need more than vibes to know how many calories you're eating. Unless you have Cronometer / calorie tracker receipts, I would dismiss your calorie estimations and so should you.

by notfed 3y ago

nradov 3y ago

It really is that hard to believe. Have you ever had a resting metabolic rate test? Have you ever gone several weeks carefully tracking everything you consume using an accurate food scale? I am skeptical that even during binge periods you were really taking in as many calories as you claim. That said, there are limits to what the human digestive system can absorb from a single meal. Binge eaters do sometimes exceed that limit and just poop out the excess without storing it as fat.

psd1 3y ago
Lol. We exist. I got the taste for raspberry ripple ice cream in my mid-20s, and ate 10 litres a week - that's 2000+ kcal a day just in dessert. That's not binging. I put that on top of 500g dry weight of pasta with cheese and sauce, and kept it up for months. Plus breakfast, lunch, and several beers. And packets of chocolate biscuits. I was covering 10km a week or less, no marathons. No tapeworms, either. You may be right that I was shitting a lot of it out; the horrible shits are what turned me off the ice cream habit. Nonetheless, I ate well over 4000 kcal every day, for years, and never put on weight. 6000 was typical. And most of that was potatoes and wheat, which are very bio-available carbs. I've always been a black hole for food. I suspect I radiate it as heat. Exes have told me I'm hot - in a caloric sense. I feel the cold more, now that I eat less. To the overweight, if it helps at all, know that I have other struggles.

hombre_fatal 3y ago

You need more than vibes to know how many calories you're eating. Unless you have Cronometer / calorie tracker receipts, I would dismiss your calorie estimations and so should you.