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I have not once, and I am not exaggerating once seen a person who logically should be fit as they ate healthily and exercised an adequate amount and was still o

I have not once, and I am not exaggerating once seen a person who logically should be fit as they ate healthily and exercised an adequate amount and was still obese, ever. Every obese person I've ever known ate crap and didn't exercise at all. And when they tried to get thin they would either half-ass it or do the latest fad diet for 2 weeks or something and get right back to where they were later.

mynameishere 17y ago
You're using a lot of imprecise terms. When I was a kid, I probably packed in those 5000 calories a day, but still stayed thin. I knew fat people who ate like tiny sparrows but stayed fat. There's a strong genetic (or bacterial, or whatever) component to weight.
- travisjeffery 17y ago
  Everyone here is using imprecise terms including you. And just because a person eats a little amount doesn't mean much, in my experience it more depends on what it is you eat. You can eat about as many buckets of broccoli and chicken as you want and stay fit compared to one who nothing but chocolate in smaller amounts or whatever (choose some unhealthy food). And also I'm sick and tired of people who rely on genetics as their problems. Go into the household of an obese family and there on their dinner table you will find tons on unhealthy foods and snacks. In each new generation of this family they grow up accustomed to eating in this manner and are obese more because of that than anything else. And when you're young you're both active and have a metabolism that's burning calories like crazy--that's what's keeping you fit. Not genetics. Also as for obese people who eat little--I knew such people, or at least I thought so. Then during each meal with one such person I noticed how little they ate. Then once during late at night I went upstairs to the kitchen to see the light on--I looked around the corner--there was this such person eating nothing but ice cream and pie; and a lot of it. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening. In the same way people can hide their drug and alcohol addictions so too can obese people hide their food addiction.
randallsquared 17y ago
"I have not once, and I am not exaggerating once seen a person who logically should be fit as they ate healthily and exercised an adequate amount and was still obese, ever." Well, sure. That's what "ate healthily" means, and it's how you determine that they're doing everything right: they're not obese. I'm not suggesting that there's anything involved but intake and exercise; I'm responding to the idea that you can eat as much as possible and just burn it off with a little extra exercise. That's totally not doable.

mynameishere 17y ago

You're using a lot of imprecise terms. When I was a kid, I probably packed in those 5000 calories a day, but still stayed thin. I knew fat people who ate like tiny sparrows but stayed fat. There's a strong genetic (or bacterial, or whatever) component to weight.

travisjeffery 17y ago
Everyone here is using imprecise terms including you. And just because a person eats a little amount doesn't mean much, in my experience it more depends on what it is you eat. You can eat about as many buckets of broccoli and chicken as you want and stay fit compared to one who nothing but chocolate in smaller amounts or whatever (choose some unhealthy food). And also I'm sick and tired of people who rely on genetics as their problems. Go into the household of an obese family and there on their dinner table you will find tons on unhealthy foods and snacks. In each new generation of this family they grow up accustomed to eating in this manner and are obese more because of that than anything else. And when you're young you're both active and have a metabolism that's burning calories like crazy--that's what's keeping you fit. Not genetics. Also as for obese people who eat little--I knew such people, or at least I thought so. Then during each meal with one such person I noticed how little they ate. Then once during late at night I went upstairs to the kitchen to see the light on--I looked around the corner--there was this such person eating nothing but ice cream and pie; and a lot of it. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening. In the same way people can hide their drug and alcohol addictions so too can obese people hide their food addiction.

randallsquared 17y ago

"I have not once, and I am not exaggerating once seen a person who logically should be fit as they ate healthily and exercised an adequate amount and was still obese, ever." Well, sure. That's what "ate healthily" means, and it's how you determine that they're doing everything right: they're not obese. I'm not suggesting that there's anything involved but intake and exercise; I'm responding to the idea that you can eat as much as possible and just burn it off with a little extra exercise. That's totally not doable.