While I agree to some degree,. My sheriff growing up was fat, so was the butcher in town, and the janitor at my school, etc.

Rose colored glasses have an impact on this.

6 ft 170lbs?   thats cute

What the fuck do I care...I worry about me, and my family and friends. Don't give a shit about the rest of the world.

I was in high school during the 1970's.  We didn't have the internet.  We had no choice, but to be physically active and go outside.  

Of course there were those that spent some of their time stoned, with bags of chips&cookies, watching MTV......when it was really all music videos.

Mkay' My mother is 85. Two knee replacements, six stents, pacemaker and a hip replacement.
All but the hip are a result of being over weight. She tripped and fell two years ago in a bad rain storm.
When she had her knees replaced 15 years ago she decided enough was enough.
She got on a diet and discovered water aerobics. Now she is 120 and 5'7". Feels better than she has in years.
There are programs and ways to loose weight and eat healthy regardless of your activity level and underlying health issues.
One just has to make up ones mind for them selves and make the commitment.

I say all this as a 50 yo male. 5'10" 175#.
I am a hard gainer, i weighed 60# as a high school freshman. Graduated at 115#
Married at 25 and 130#
Got in the gym and lifted weight and ate 5 times a day and got to 185# and took gold at the Georgia games in power lifting.
I made up my mind to make a change and committed to do what I needed to make the change.
Never felt better than I did then. I gotta get back to the gym. It on ME to make the commitment again.

That’s it, I’m done. Fuck this place. It’s devolved into a mass of retarded copy pastes and face palms. The quality of posts has been declining for a while, but this is the last straw. That’s it. I’m done. I’m uninstalling the internet, chopping off my dick and moving to fucking Antarctica, at least the bacteria there will be fucking smarter

There's no one single thing to point to.  Portion sizes, availability, habits, etc... all played a role.

But there's also the fact that the composition of our food has changed.  Even when we eat the same thing now, it's often not the same as what we would have eaten 30 years ago.

Vegetable oils instead of natural fats, cheap high fructose corn sweeteners in everything as a flavor enhancer, s7

If you look at lists of ingredients I'm sure most everyone knows that they're listed by order of percentage, high to low.  Many products you'll see several items down the list things start like "high fructose corn syrup", then "corn syrup", then "corn sweetener" and so on.  They let them list 2, 3, 5 ingredients that are essentially all sugar separately.

This means that the first ingredient is often not shown as sugar, which it truly should be.  Since the individual percentage may be higher than any one sweetener, it gets listed first.  But the total percentage of sweetener is actually much higher.

It's a deliberate deception.

MFP is a great learning experience, and it's also a good idea to do some research and find out how many calories some foods contain just so you have that knowledge to carry around.

Fatness is not healthy and it is not attractive and people who say otherwise are trying to justify being fat.

I got the myfitnesspal AP about 3 months ago. Lost 34lbs so far. 242 down to 208. I'm only like 5'8" so I have a ways to go but you are right. If you actually track your calories you will be amazed at how much you actually eat. At least I was.

So you're declining his offer to buy you a plane ticket?

My mom is 6'5", 275 pounds, and also a truck driver.  I would love to see your mom say something disparaging to my mom in her face.  I will be happy to buy your mom a plane ticket to go there and see if she has the nerve  to badmouth my mom where she lives over in that place, or maybe at her truck, I don't know yet, you know, whatever is most convenient for both ladies since it's the holiday season and planning is rough.

OP, none of the things you mention as food I consider food - thats the problem for most people.  Dont even know what a five guys is, but I probably wouldnt eat there more than once or twice - in my life.  Farmers market for me, fresh and local - I cut out fast food,  junk food and soda around age 15 (30 years ago).  Its not just for your body, but also your mind/moods.  I call what people are doing to themselves slow motion suicide.  They spend most of their lives in front of the tv watching other people live their lives, its mass insanity.  Yesterday was just an average day, but I mountain biked, stretched, iced, did deep breathing (for diving), and caught a ton of waves on my stand up paddle board.  Thats maybe 2 hours of movement, nothing extreme especially when you consider I'm not sitting in front of a tv which frees up a lot of time to both exercise and cook/eat healthy.

If you want healthy women, you generally have to look outside the US.  That is what I call Fat Liberation!

well that's true.

The thing she should be thankful for is that she acknowledges that she is fat. 90% of people won't concede that basic basic fact.

Yes, some truth to that.  But all you have to do is watch old 60s and 70s movies and TV shows with crowd scenes, sidewalk scenes, etc.  Bob Newhart.  Mary Tyler Moore.  Streets of San Francisco.  The images bear at the statistics.

Damn Irish people.

<---- Irish

FWIW, googling "class photo 1991" gives you similar results as 1970.
Fatsplosion started somewhere around 2000 (at least that is when I really noticed it).

I was at a large electronics store yesterday waiting in the check out line and was people watching.
A full 60-70% of the people in line were at least 30-50lbs overweight. Men with huge guts, women with guts, gunts and flappy arms (in sleeveless shirts). Several were in whopper choppers, most were sloppily dressed, several were heavily tattooed with random, shitty ink.

Keto FTW!!!!!! I am hellbent on not becoming a shape, so is my girlfriend.

This.  I let myself go.  Had A1C numbers getting into the pre-D stage.  Choloesterol was very high.  My food groups consisted of Taco Bell, McD, Wendys, and Sonic.  Five Guys was in there somewhere occasionally.  BP was 150-155 unmedicated.  My knees were screaming for mercy and in constant pain.

I decided to radically change what I eat after thinking like other posters here that we ate butter filled fat laden foods pre 80's and did not have the obesity epidemic we are in the middle of right now.

In three months I dropped 50# of fat without a SINGLE sit up.  I cut my caloric intake to about 1200 a day after determining that is ALL I NEED.  Cut the cheap carb bomb food.  Only diet sodas if I drink soda at all.  If I ate a Whataburger, I threw out the buns.  NO FRIES OR CHIPS.  Fries are the absolute worst thing anyone could ever eat.  I absolutely filtered out HFCS.  I'm a year in now and over 60# down, 6" off my waist.  Button down shirts that looked ridiculous before now fit great.  Arms, legs, and fingers have normal proportions.  Knees no longer hurt at all. Double chin is gone.  Fat roll on the back of my head is gone.  Pistols amazingly feel smaller in my skinny hands so I need larger grips!

I was taking a statin and Lisonopril for cholesterol and BP control.  I still take the statin because it can't hurt but stopped the BP med about six months ago.  Unmedicated BP is now 115/70 on a HIGH day.  A1C numbers are awesome low.  Cholesterol is low but unbalanced.  Need MORE good chols.  35 is too low.

Point is ANYONE can make this kind of a change and see results if they stick with it and DO NOT CHEAT.

I feel I have 20-25 more to go but these will not be the easy pounds.  Got to get serious on working out but again I don't think it will need to be a crazy every day thing.  Three times a week will be perfectly fine along with some walking or cycling.  I started the next phase mid last week and have already come down 5 pounds!

My perceptions while overweight: people pick on fat people.  We are what we are.  God loves us even if we are obese.  We gain weight as we get older.  Yadda yadda.

My perceptions now: We are what we make of ourselves.  If metabolism slows down with age ADJUST INTAKE.  2000 calories is too much for most people nowadays.  1500 is more realistic.  It kills me to see someone who is overweight snarfing down a biggie fries while knowing they could get healthier without even trying hard.

Ban snackfood!

History has shown that Banning things works!

Only one person is responsible for what goes into your mouth, and that is you.

Neighbor across the street is in his late thirties and does home improvements. He is so fat he waddles when he walks. I have no freaking
clue how this guy can get down on his knees to do the things that would be required of a Carpenter and then get back up.

I came to post this. The animal fat content of food wasn't demonized in the olden days so I hear.

LOL

this fucking guy again

with his weird obsession with me


I'm 6-5 (for real) and I weighed 203 lbs yesterday morning.  I look like a typical overly tall storkish basketball player type.  

I've been going to the gym since I was in college and I ride a bike very hard about 3 hours a week.

It's very easy for me to not gain weight, I'm so big and my metabolism is so high that I can eat three full meals a day and not get fat.


You need to understand that calling a tall thin guy a fatso is not an effective insult.  It just makes me reflect pleasantly on the fact that I'm tall and not fat.

I'm trying to help you do a better job of following me around and making your sad little anonymous insults.

I blame it all on the lack of cocaine use in this day, and age.

Are you kidding?

That post improves any thread that it shows up in.

There was a fatass in the hospital in a double wide wheelchair that had to go to MetroZoo for an MRI

Could it have anything to do with growth hormones they put into food for livestock

If you think America is one nation and anyone sane can coexist as peers with the likes of that, I say your delusional. There's just no way. It's impossible.

this

tracking calories on myfitnesspal is like a magic wand

you want to lose 10 lbs, you dial it in, hit the max calorie intake every day and it's as good as done

almost like math actually works or something

More carbs are the devil bullshit?





I stayed skinny as a rail on an almost entirely carb diet for years.  Still skinny, still eat plenty of carbs.  What I never ate much of was sugar.





A lot of food is good calorie rich stuff these days, people eat too much of it for their activity level.  The premise of the OP was on, though I don't care if people want to be fat.  I just think they sure like to blame it on carbs, HFCS, etc., anything but themselves.

 

Your pretty right on except when you stated the fat content in a context that made you sound like people who thinking eating animal fats make you fat. It doesnt. Carbs/sugar make people fat.

All the shit going on right now, and this is what you're concerned about?

Fail comment is fail

You weighed 60lbs in high school? Whatchutalkinabout Willis?

On a low carb diet your body goes into a state of ketosis, and beccomes efficient at utilizing fat as a primary energy source.

I'm not an expert, that's just a brief rundown.

and 50/60 years ago MOST kids spent their free time outdoors playing and/or working.There were no video games,no smart phones and not much on TV.
 Today's kids spend MOST of their time on their asses.

Nobody cooks anymore either.   I know people who eat 2-3 meals out every single day.

Can you do a pull up?....just one.....

Once baby number 2 gets here, the wife is going to stay home full time and we're going to meal prep again. I literally lost 15 pounds in about 3 weeks with 0 exercise earlier this year when we prepped. I added running a 10k twice weekly and lost over 15 more lbs over the next 3 months. It's all about discipline. Prepping your weeks meals makes it a lot easier. Instead of scrambling last minute, you know you have a small tuperware of baked chicken, quinoa and squash right there ready to go. I wasn't too excited about it at first, but eventually I viewed my meals as fuel. After week number 1 you start to crave those veggies.

KEK new copy pasta

 
>2016

>not knowing your copypasta

Sounds like Valhalla.

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Been logging into myfitnesspal every day for over two months.  I've always been too thin because I didn't realize how little
I was eating.  MFP has helped me put on over 12 pounds in the last two months.

I am 5'10" and 147-149 lbs.  I consider myself underweight by a good twenty pounds.

But I would rather be underweight than overweight.

Too subtle?

Yeah something is going on all right. I remember reading somewhere that heart disease was basically nonexistent before we started mass-producing sugar and HFCS and putting them all over everything. Not like a rare thing that only happened to rich people who could eat anything they wanted and not do any physical work, but like something that didn't exist at all.

I don't think you even need to count calories. Your body already knows how much food it needs, and it works fine as long as you eat the right stuff and listen to your body. Just start cutting bad things out of your diet one at a time, and replacing them with good things. Best thing that most people could do is cut out sugary drinks. Drink only water, with some coffee or booze as desired. Milk is okay too. No soda, fruit juice, etc. Replace carby snacks like chips, doughnuts, candy, etc with vegetables and nuts.

What an original thread idea. Neva been done befo

To be fair, Americans work way more than we used to. The idea of "overtime" on weekends/Sundays, "on call," 24/7, second and third shifts, etc.

America is literally working itself to death. I try to cook, but to keep up with house/lawn/family things on top of needing sleep and wanting at least some down time, it's fucking hard.