Naturally thin?
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So much conflicting advice from 'experts' on what we should eat/do has left many confused.
Even when common sense tells you what's right, unless there's peer reviewed, documented studies in triplicate to support what's bleeding obvious most keep on doing what they've always done... and wonder why nothing changes.
Even when common sense tells you what's right, unless there's peer reviewed, documented studies in triplicate to support what's bleeding obvious most keep on doing what they've always done... and wonder why nothing changes.
CoolHands said:
Most fatties eat lots of calories they don't tell you about, and snack frequently on Magnums etc.
Bloke sits opposite me at work. He must be 6' and >20st. All I ever see him eat for lunch is salad and the like. I assume he's so hungry that he drops into McDonalds for a couple of Big Macs on the way home.darker grapefruit said:
darker grapefruit said:
J4CKO said:
11.5 stone and look like your at the gym all the time ?
Must be not doing loads of cardio in those gym sessions you dont go to !
I assume OP is a mesomorph, and his friends are endomorphs?Must be not doing loads of cardio in those gym sessions you dont go to !
t often is easier than not and moving.I peaked at 18 stone 2, because I ate and drank too much, it is pretty simple, over consume calories on average over a long period of time and you gain weight, under consume and you lose it. Trouble is, it is hard and requires sustained effort.
Exercise is part of it but mainly it is what you shove down your face, and you cant diet then revert to old habits, you need to slavishly follow a different regime, eating different food, no point in eat less crap for a month, losing half a stone then going back to eating loads of crap, doomed to failure, needs to be a permanent change with regular checks and focus on it.
Exercise is part of it but mainly it is what you shove down your face, and you cant diet then revert to old habits, you need to slavishly follow a different regime, eating different food, no point in eat less crap for a month, losing half a stone then going back to eating loads of crap, doomed to failure, needs to be a permanent change with regular checks and focus on it.
CoolHands said:
Most fatties eat lots of calories they don't tell you about, and snack frequently on Magnums etc.
My friend wasn't losing any weight and claimed it was bad genetics. I kept a track of what I saw him eating over a week and noticed he was on about 4 000 calories a day. One day he demolished a triple pack of Jaffa cakes in 10 minutes
I encouraged him to log everything he eats (MyFitnessPal etc) and it has helped in getting some of the flab off
Haven't seen him eat a triple pack of Jaffa cakes since either 
anonymous said:
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Rule of thumb for losing weight it 1lb of fat is 3000 calories. So you cut 500 calories out per day to cut 1lb of weight per week.Running that sum the other way... To gain 1 stone in 2 weeks, that's 1lb per day. So an extra 3000 calories per day. Whilst a lot, if you're completely sedentary, boozing heavily, and eating junk for the whole day, then I can see 3000 extra calories per day being achievable. 3000 calories is 10 pints and a pizza.
IME fatties are food blind. They might have a salad for lunch but then have a Snickers that they can't see. Also, they're often ignorant to what healthy means. I worked with a guy who'd heard that yoghurt was healthy so switched his morning bacon roll for a pot of yoghurt. A family pot of yoghurt that was 500kcals! Crazy fatty.
I'm the "biggun" of the group, have an active job that sees me lifting and carrying and I take the dog on walks for around 40 odd minutes each day, longer at the weekends when I have the time.
I eat around as much as the thin people I know and do have a takeaway a week but other than that I tend to have fresh food and always incorporate salad, veg etc. Portion size wise...I eat less than my GF who is a slim one...
Despite this, losing weight means cutting pretty much everything out, just drinking water, only having carrot sticks etc etc. The only time I lost weight without this was when I was a parcel delivery driver doing near on 200 stops a day. Active and out of breath constantly for pretty much 11 hours of each day.
My friends on the other hand can have the takeaway a week plus "the works" on a night out from Maccies, massive fried breakfast to get over a hangover etc and dont seem to put on anything.
I sometimes see these magazines where they list what the overweight woman/man used to eat before losing loads of weight and feel sick at the amount of food, literally full packs of biscuits etc in one sitting, 4 chocolate bars, massive fry up, etc, etc. I would struggle having more than a couple of biscuits and tend to feel sick if I had more than one chocolate bar in a short space of time....
I think its just sometimes "one of those things" where as a society some peoples bodies cant work off the processed food that we all now consume in our life as easily as others.
I also don't disagree though that in some cases the bigger people who are say "addicted" to food probably sneak some food that they don't tell you about, I know a few like that!
I think its less cut and dry than what some people think, where if your fat you eat loads, that is the case probably in the majority, but there is also a large proportion where this isn't true.
I eat around as much as the thin people I know and do have a takeaway a week but other than that I tend to have fresh food and always incorporate salad, veg etc. Portion size wise...I eat less than my GF who is a slim one...
Despite this, losing weight means cutting pretty much everything out, just drinking water, only having carrot sticks etc etc. The only time I lost weight without this was when I was a parcel delivery driver doing near on 200 stops a day. Active and out of breath constantly for pretty much 11 hours of each day.
My friends on the other hand can have the takeaway a week plus "the works" on a night out from Maccies, massive fried breakfast to get over a hangover etc and dont seem to put on anything.
I sometimes see these magazines where they list what the overweight woman/man used to eat before losing loads of weight and feel sick at the amount of food, literally full packs of biscuits etc in one sitting, 4 chocolate bars, massive fry up, etc, etc. I would struggle having more than a couple of biscuits and tend to feel sick if I had more than one chocolate bar in a short space of time....
I think its just sometimes "one of those things" where as a society some peoples bodies cant work off the processed food that we all now consume in our life as easily as others.
I also don't disagree though that in some cases the bigger people who are say "addicted" to food probably sneak some food that they don't tell you about, I know a few like that!
I think its less cut and dry than what some people think, where if your fat you eat loads, that is the case probably in the majority, but there is also a large proportion where this isn't true.
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