re: NYT: American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter

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All you people who talk condescendingly about fatties and sugar addicts, and brag about your keto diets and workouts.... you're all a bunch of douchebags.

I hope the extra 3-5 years you gain in old age by denying yourself the enjoyment of something as basic as food is all you hope it will be.

I'll take a McGriddle, ma'am.

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There aren’t many basic foods that I haven’t tried. And there’s nothing wrong with occasionally having a McGriddle. The problem comes when when the majority of what you put into your body is disgusting food. When you couple that with a sedentary lifestyle you get extreme fatness. I’m not buying that your poor health is actually making you a happier person.

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Body fat percentage would be better. What about us guys who lift like beasts and are technically “over weight”?

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I agree that body fat would be a more accurate measure, but BMI fits the lazy culture

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I’m 5’7 168 pounds. I very obviously need to lose about 25 pounds, but every year my health screening comes back with a gold star rating, which means I’m in the upper tier of health. Whenever I mention losing weight, I get comments from people about how I’d be too thin. People need to learn that unless you’re a woman with sizable breasts, nothing should jiggle on your body.

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That right there is fine. Being healthy does not just mean being thin. A little body fat is not going to kill anyone. There are a lot of internal factors that determine one's health. People being slightly overweight is not the epidemic in this country, and is not the point of this thread. Women who weigh 268 pounds at 5'7 is the problem. Because it is at that size that the health risks really rise.

Your desire to lose weight is a noble one, but ultimately it is more of just a personal goal of how you would prefer your body to look.

How fat of a baw are you?

Your insecurities are ear piercing.

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When you can frick, fight, drink, float, cook, entertain, or conduct yourself as a gentleman half as well as me, I will not care about your opinion.

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You just said you care about his opinion.

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I'll add the obligatory caveat using BMI to define obesity and overweight is a little off, especially on males. The data to set those standards was derived in 1800's France prior to weight rooms being a thing.

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What about the argument that weight rooms are basically just a replacement for people not doing as much manual labor as they used to?

marathon training ftw. during my training program last year i ate all day long and still lost weight.

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just telling people there’s a problem doesn’t solve it.”

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That's fat shaming! Obese is beautiful!

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marathon training ftw. during my training program last year i ate all day long and still lost weight

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Yeah you can eat a lot, but as I posted on the health and fitness board, I was 168 pounds when I started running and I’m 168 pounds running 30 miles a week.

You can’t outrun a bad diet.

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so you had some spare time between first and second lunch?

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Lunch.



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