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    My eating habit is polar opposites from the majority of you. Personally I love to eat lot of fatty things, drink creamed milk, and lots of vegan gravy. I take sugared tea and lots of sweets and chocklet and you may think I am obese. No I am trim and fit. The mantra I have is exercise and I am a jogger and I love walking and running and on weekends I choose to go to the countryside and talk with countrymen and eat their simple foods. I love nature and that is why I at times pass hours in greeneries. I love animals, birds, insects and I keep company with them and that is why I am not stressed out. Though I read serious books like philosophy, economics and psychology and commerce my life style is so simple.

    That is why though I gulp proteins and highly fatty food stuffs I am robust physically and happy spiritually. Foods are not a problem and it is all our ways of living and attitude that calls for adjusting

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    Quote Originally Posted by blazeofglory View Post
    Our eating habit is polar opposites from the majority of you. Personally I love to eat lot of fatty things, drink creamed milk, and lots of vegan gravy. I take sugared tea and lots of sweets and chocklet and you may think I am obese. No I am trim and fit. The mantra I have is exercise and I am a jogger and I love walking and running and on weekends I choose to go to the countryside and talk with countrymen and eat their simple foods. I love nature and that is why I at times pass hours in greeneries. I love animals, birds, insects and I keep company with them and that is why I am not stressed out. Though I read serious books like philosophy, economics and psychology and commerce my life style is so simple.

    That is why though I gulp proteins and highly fatty food stuffs I am robust physically and happy spiritually. Foods are not a problem and it is all our ways of living and attitude that calls for adjusting

    Actually you bring up a good point, the thing is the amount of food you eat is not the determining factor in whether you become fat or not. In the beginning of the 19th century the average gentleman would consume 4000 calories a day, yet lo and behold obesity was rarely a problem, though at middle age some of them started to grow plump. They ate 4000 calories a day because they needed them, there were no cars and televisions and internet, so they spent their entire days actually using their bodies. Nowadays our bodies spend such a radical amount of time in a state of semi-hibernation that we have to drastically adjust our diets and calories intake compared to all history before us just to stay at a respectable wait. This is why I hate it when people say "I am fat because it is genetic", no you are fat because if you were in a wheelchair your life would hardly be affected you lazy and amoeba like blob. No one before 1950 was obese because of genetics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander III View Post
    Actually you bring up a good point, the thing is the amount of food you eat is not the determining factor in whether you become fat or not. In the beginning of the 19th century the average gentleman would consume 4000 calories a day, yet lo and behold obesity was rarely a problem, though at middle age some of them started to grow plump. They ate 4000 calories a day because they needed them, there were no cars and televisions and internet, so they spent their entire days actually using their bodies. Nowadays our bodies spend such a radical amount of time in a state of semi-hibernation that we have to drastically adjust our diets and calories intake compared to all history before us just to stay at a respectable wait. This is why I hate it when people say "I am fat because it is genetic", no you are fat because if you were in a wheelchair your life would hardly be affected you lazy and amoeba like blob. No one before 1950 was obese because of genetics.
    I agree, lack of exercise is a major factor. Cyclists in the Tour de France consume around 8000 calories a day and at the end of the tour they still lose weight, they simply cannot eat enough to maintain their weight. This is why many of these fad diets that have you counting how many calories are in half a biscuit and so on are ridiculous, just get off your arse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander III View Post
    Actually you bring up a good point, the thing is the amount of food you eat is not the determining factor in whether you become fat or not. In the beginning of the 19th century the average gentleman would consume 4000 calories a day, yet lo and behold obesity was rarely a problem, though at middle age some of them started to grow plump. They ate 4000 calories a day because they needed them, there were no cars and televisions and internet, so they spent their entire days actually using their bodies. Nowadays our bodies spend such a radical amount of time in a state of semi-hibernation that we have to drastically adjust our diets and calories intake compared to all history before us just to stay at a respectable wait. This is why I hate it when people say "I am fat because it is genetic", no you are fat because if you were in a wheelchair your life would hardly be affected you lazy and amoeba like blob. No one before 1950 was obese because of genetics.
    oh oh!!! no need! I am sure there is more to obesity then meets the eyes.
    Fat is an accumulation of food and other factors.
    It is a state of body and mind where the two shut down in disfunctionement and so very hard to undo unless proper remedie is given.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    "Calories" is a word that's overused and most people don't know what it means. It has something to do with heat energy and water, the amount of energy needed to raise a litre of water by one degrees celsius or something. Anyway, food composition is more important than calories. Even people who never have to worry about their weight still have to worry about the composition of their food or they could die, you can't just exercise and not worry about diet. Ask Brock Lesnar.
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    I tend to eat slowly, so that I can enjoy the food and it helps me realise when I am full. If I don't I tend to eat everything in sight and feel stuffed.

    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf View Post
    "Calories" is a word that's overused and most people don't know what it means
    I thought calories were little creatures that sneak into your wardrobe at night and make your clothes smaller?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckthorn View Post
    I tend to eat slowly, so that I can enjoy the food and it helps me realise when I am full. If I don't I tend to eat everything in sight and feel stuffed.



    I thought calories were little creatures that sneak into your wardrobe at night and make your clothes smaller?
    Hehe that is it you are right whoever thought differently

    Interesting to see that no one mentioned that they ate with their eyes.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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