re: Fat Shaming: As a Society We Need to Do it More

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big guy, about 280. And I don't eat that much really.

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How tall, big guy.

Your portions of carb intake tell all. All three meals are carb-laden...cereal, pasta, bread. Carbs are sugar. Sugar is calories. Calories are fat builders. Your quantities are vague... some cereal, small portion of...shrimp, pasta (and dressing?j, 6 (inch?) subway sandwich (kind?) Every night? No clear detail on in-betweens, what you drink, etc. Friend, this pattern of eating is not helping you, in case you might want to control your weight, before it really gets out of hand.

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NATidefan

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I hear you. I'm fat too. My weight loss journey has been long, and well documented on here. I've come up with every excuse imaginable and still do. You gotta stop worrying about what everyone else can or can't do and focus on what you can do.

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Cereal, pasta, subway sandwiches? That's a lot of your daily intake from worthless grains which are essentially just sugar

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Exactly, and that illustrates the problem. He thinks that's a healthy diet, and many people would.

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The human body simply doesn't work like that. You likely aren't paying attention to their portion size, or you only see them around cheat meals.

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This. Scruffy was going to say the same thing.

Scruffy probably eats only 1-1.5 meals a day, unless there is some big meal or his special lady friend cooks.

Cup of coffee in the morning, snack or possibly full lunch, and then usually a small dinner.

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And drive an hour there and back. With a thirty minute lunch and getting ready for work etc. It leaves me with about two free hours a day when all is said and done.

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you're just making excuses. i have a 70 mile commute to work at 6 and i still make sure to at least run a mile a day. even if you walk it that is 20 minutes out of your day. hell, bring your kids and make it a family event.

You really only need 45 mins of exercise a day.

Gorgeous face. I wouldn't fat shame her, shoot her, or bang her.

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Majority of you people don’t know how hard it is to lose weight

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Try gaining weight when your naturally slim and then talk to me. You can stop eating, but you can only eat so much.

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So everyone's metabolism is exactly the same and some people don't burn calories easier than others

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Good thing I didn't say something so ridiculous.

ETA: and an MD agrees with me like 3 posts later

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How bout some helpful example there, Fatass

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You could google “hormones and body fat” or “how to feed your hormones” or “effect of carbohydrates and dietary fat on hormones” or any combination of those words to do tour own research.

My body responds well to the Keto diet. I eat alot of fat moderate protein and very few carbs (mostly fiber) but this still means eating quite a bit of green veggies. Like the guy said, most people misunderstand keto and think it’s all meat. It’s mostly fat. Testosterone is made from healthy cholesterol. Cholesterol is made from fat. Ergo, you need to eat (the right kind of) fat to make testosterone. Your body converts carbohydrates into glucose (sugar) which requires insulin to metabolize. When insulin is up, testosterone and hgh is down. Ergo, a diet high in carbs will lower fat-burning hormones.

LINK

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The Hormone Hypothesis

To understand what makes the hormone hypothesis of obesity so intriguing, it helps to grasp where the energy-balance hypothesis falls short. The idea that obesity is caused by consuming more calories than we expend supposedly stems from the first law of thermodynamics, which merely states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. As applied to biology, it means that energy consumed by an organism has to be either converted to a useful form (metabolized), excreted or stored. Thus, if we take in more calories than we expend or excrete, the excess has to be stored, which means that we get fatter and heavier. So far, so obvious. But this law tells us nothing about why we take in more calories than we expend, nor does it tell us why the excess gets stored as fat. And it is these “why” questions that need to be answered.
Specifically, why do fat cells accumulate fat molecules to excess? This is a biological question, not a physics one. Why are those fat molecules not metabolized instead to generate energy or heat? And why do fat cells take up excessive fat in some areas of the body but not others? Saying that they do so because excess calories are consumed is not a meaningful answer.
Answering these questions leads to consideration of the role that hormones—insulin, in particular—play in stimulating fat accumulation in different cells. Insulin is secreted in response to a type of carbohydrate called glucose. When the amount of glucose rises in the blood—as happens after eating a carbohydrate-rich meal—the pancreas secretes more insulin, which works to keep the blood glucose level from getting dangerously high. Insulin tells muscle, organ and even fat cells to take up the glucose and use it for fuel. It also tells fat cells to store fat—including fat from the meal—for later use. As long as insulin levels remain high, fat cells retain fat, and the other cells preferentially burn glucose (and not fat) for energy.
The main dietary sources of glucose are starches, grains and sugars. (In the absence of carbohydrates, the liver will synthesize glucose from protein.) The more easily digestible the carbohydrates, the greater and quicker the rise in blood glucose. (Fiber and fat in foods slow the process.) Thus, a diet rich in refined grains and starches will prompt greater insulin secretion than a diet that is not. Sugars—such as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup—may play a key role because they also contain significant amounts of a carbohydrate called fructose, which is metabolized mostly by liver cells. Though not definitive, research suggests that high amounts of fructose may be an important cause of “insulin resistance.” When cells are insulin-resistant, more insulin is required to control blood glucose. The result, according to the hormone hypothesis, is an ever greater proportion of the day that insulin in the blood is elevated, causing fat to accumulate in fat cells rather than being used to fuel the body. As little as 10 or 20 calories stored as excess fat each day can lead over decades to obesity.
The hormone hypothesis suggests that the only way to prevent this downward spiral from happening, and to reverse it when it does, is to avoid the sugars and carbohydrates that work to raise insulin levels. Then the body will naturally tap its store of fat to burn for fuel. The switch from carbohydrate burning to fat burning, so the logic goes, might occur even if the total number of calories consumed remains unchanged. Cells burn the fat because hormones are effectively telling them to do so; the body's energy expenditure increases as a result. To lose excess body fat, according to this view, carbohydrates must be restricted and replaced, ideally with fat, which does not stimulate insulin secretion.
This alternative hypothesis of obesity implies that the ongoing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (which stems to great extent from insulin resistance) are largely driven by the grains and sugars in our diets. It also implies that the first step in solving these crises is to avoid sugars and limit consumption of starchy vegetables and grains, not worrying about how much we are eating and exercising.

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