re: Question for very large people

Just exercise a little bit everyday and try to eat healthier during the week. It’s not that hard man. Even taking a 30 minute walk after you eat can do wonders. Cut out the carbs when possible too.

Homeostasis and highly palatable, calorie dense foods.

It’s not normal to be in a calorie deficit, so our bodies tell us to eat. We choose a meal that likely should be our calorie intake for the entire day. Then we gain weight and our bodies say maintain it. Viscous cycle

Our bodies are incredible, In a normal food environment, say 100 years ago, people easily maintained their weight without knowing the calorie count. Today most people couldn’t guess their intake to 500 calories. But if you overeat 100 cal each day, you are gaining 1pound a month, yet they still maintained. The body just can’t stay lean with all the calorie dense foods.

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How does it happen?

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It can be a change of lifestyle and some procrastination that puts you on the path. A sedentary new job or hobby that takes you out of your usual exercise regime... you notice the weight gain and tell yourself you can get back on track later (but you soon realize that the last weight loss was when you were younger, and now it’s not as easy). We’re all different. Some people are designed to gain weight faster than others.

Clothes will stretch some, so you don’t realize that you’ve moved up a size until you shop. That’s a vicious cycle in itself, thinking that you’re not getting bigger because your clothes are just a little tighter. Big and Tall clothes are made to be forgiving, so once you’re in that range you can slide faster.

The bigger you get, the more daunting the task. It’s easy to say “eat less and move more” when your goal is a month or two away. When you’re on a program and making progress, just doing the math can knock your confidence. When you realize that you’re losing five pounds a month and your goal is to lose 120, two years of starvation can seem like an eternity.

Mix in depression or an alcohol or drug habit and it can get terrible very quickly. But even without those added factors it’s a challenge for a lot of people.

Like most other problems, poor parenting has a lot to do with it. Fat children grow up to become fat adults.

How did you get 20 lbs overweight?

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pedometer

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Is this you??

Form bad habits, and habits are hard to break.

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It’s not a matter of eat less move more for everyone.

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Unless you have a medical condition, it mostly is. Everyone has a different metabolism, but people who think they need to eat 500-750 more calories than someone to gain weight are the same as people who try to say they need to eat way less. There may be some discrepancy, but for the VAST majority of people, it is as simple as eat less and move more. There are those people who have denser bones, but they won't look bigger. They will just weigh more while at a normal weight.

I fall into the category of someone with a "slow" metabolism, so I get it. I can put on muscle very quickly, but I also store a ton of fat and it seems like it's really tough to keep it off.

This was until I started counting my calories. And I don't mean estimating. I mean, if I'm making a salad, I'm weighing every vegetable I eat. If I'm making red beans and rice, I'm weighing the beans, sausage, etc. I'm adding up all the macros, dividing it up when it's done by 1/2 cup portions, and using knowing exactly what's going into my body. Consequently I'm down from 245 at my heaviest to 205. I'm still losing weight. Yeah it fricking sucks. Yeah it's a lot of work. And I slip up every 2 weeks or so and decide to stop counting calories for the evening.

Perhaps I'm proving half of your point, because I do feel like I must really deprive myself to lose weight. But it is as simple as eat less than you currently eat, and move more than you currently move. Those two things, barring a medical condition, are almost guaranteed to drop pounds. If that's the case for you, that just means you have to work harder. But what's wrong with that?

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Thats 40 lbs overweight, and we wonder why america is fat as frick

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As a three-sport athlete at 17 years old, I was never below about 185 pounds, and I had virtually no body fat. You’d have to take me on a Batan death march, or six months in Aushwitz to get me to 180.