re: NYT: American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter

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But that isn’t fine. It’s not okay to settle with your body at any point in life. You should be pursuing a healthy, sustainable, useful body at all times. Telling people they should be okay with being overweight or slightly obese is a bad mindset and leads to complaceny which leads to those 268 pound land whales that are plaguing our health care systems.

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You may have misread me. I agree with your point completely. Everyone's fitness goals are different, which is something to keep in mind. Some women may want to be 130 or less. Some may like having some sort of thickness. As long as you are constantly thriving to live a healthy lifestyle is what's most important.

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You may have misread me. I agree with your point completely. Everyone's fitness goals are different, which is something to keep in mind. Some women may want to be 130 or less. Some may like having some sort of thickness. As long as you are constantly thriving to live a healthy lifestyle is what's most important.

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Gotcha.

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m no scientist so I don't really know if BMI is the best tool to use but I always hear two main attacks: 1. What about people who lift weights? and 2. You'd be too thin if you were in the "healthy" range.

I tend to think that the answer to the first one is that less people actually "work" today than when BMI was first developed and many more people were "lifting weights" and staying physically active when they had to do so in order to survive. To the second objection, I think that people weigh more on average and that has skewed what people find to be "normal". Thus, overweight people are viewed as average-sized while people in the "normal" BMI range are thinner than most of the population.

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I’m 5’8” maybe 5’9”. I am currently on a new diet and losing fat, but I also lift weights. Heavy, hard and often. Even when I drop my body fat % to a healthy level, I will still be “overweight.” I believe the chart says I should weigh about 165. I MIGHT be able to get down under 200. I’m right at 230 right now. How am I suppose to get to 165? I would lose all my muscle. Also, I gentically have big fricking legs. All the men in my family are short and stocky.

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I’m 5’8” maybe 5’9”.

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I MIGHT be able to get down under 200.

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You can get under 200

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this shite on magazine covers

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That excuse needs to die.

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But then Americans would be responsible for their own weight gain, and that's just not OK in 2018.

Anybody who works out consistently (except maybe at Planet Fitness ) knows that gyms are not filled with fat people working their asses off and just not seeing results because of their unfortunate genetics. Most people in gyms longer than the first three weeks of the new year are seeing results and/or maintaining them.

Americans are fat because they eat too much, they don't exercise, and there are no consequences for doing it - other than early death after a prolonged hospitalization paid for by other people and followed by a lawsuit by family members hoping to squeeze out some settlement money because working, like exercise, is hard.

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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.

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If you exercise regularly you dont have to be a complete diet nazi, plus you feel better and look better.

And with all the cardio I do my dick gets so hard a cat couldnt scratch it.

Now I feel like eating at Golden Corral despite making progress with ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting

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You can get under 200

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I’m working on it. I used to be 260. Now I’m 230, and my pants can barely stay on. Hopefully I’ll be where I want to be in a few months. Counting calories, rotating carb intake, eating a lot of protein, more cardio on off days, limiting alcohol consumption to just about none. I had hit a wall. Then got on a legit diet plan, and I believe it’s working. And I’m stronger now in the gym than I have ever been.