re: It's not their fault they're fat! NPR edition

It’s so gross how our government is pushing people systemically into being lazy, pathetic, disgusting pieces of mentally ill shite and certain people eat it up so they won’t have to experience any type of discomfort in the form of hard work, ever.

If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. The misconception comes from the fact that most people completely ignore resting metabolic rate where every pound of muscle burns 6 calories per day. Most people who “stay soooo active but can’t lose weight” are doing a bunch of walking or jogging and have zero muscle mass under all of their fat.

If I’m moderately fit and have 20 pounds of muscle on my body that you don’t have, I’m burning 40,000+ calories per year that you’re not just by existing. That’s 20 full days of food that I can eat and still break even.

People who work out to gain muscle year in and year out, eat a reasonable amount of calories, and don’t eat a shite ton of junk food will look good. This is a 100% undeniable, unwavering, scientific fact. So sad how many people are handcuffing themselves in this thread and pretending that they’re fat because they have bad genes and not because they can’t stay disciplined for years on end