is obesity/skinyness choice for EVERYONE?

[CCS]

I consider myself poor, and I eat very healthy. I'm lucky to live by a grocery store that sells those big drums of oats for only $1.97, though. My grocery bill is $150 per month. I don't eat organic, but I eat lots of veggies and fruits and other variety. I just don't by the expensive stuff. I get the cheaper fresh stuff, and then get a lot of variety from frozen stuff, which is cheaper.

As for those big gulps, they are out of my price range. Can't blame that one on poverty. I'll spend a lot more than that on a date, but on myself for just one meal.

 

[Felk]

*snorts with disgust*

CCS is a troll

 

[flimflam]

CCS is a troll

You must be new here .

 

[tomas99]

I am a guy with high metabolism, especially at winter when I am doing virtually nothing (except walking from one subway to another). My diet could varied but it could look like this:

2 croissants or any kind of bread, some fruit.
Lunch: Soup + some meat with potatoes or pizza
Afternoon: Some burgres, even menu at Donalds or KFC.
Dinner: Soup, pasta or something like that, when I am out of house and hungry second dinner like double menu at KFC.
1 litre of fruit juice, the rest tea or water + 1 litre of coca cola.

During day several chocolate bars, chips, ice-cream, just everything I could remember. Always had to have something sweet like chocolate bar after each meal.

 

[tomas99]

Honestly I see more and more little fat kids all over the place. When I was in elementry school there were only like 3-4 fat kids in my class of 50. Now a days they are everywhere. I think people are just getting more disgusting.

That is very true. I am 24 and when I was 15 or younger, there was only one girl that was overweight. I do not mean even obese, but simply overweight. In other classes the same, like 1 person from 20 people that is 5%? It was really unusual.

Now when I check kids, there are at least 30% of them overweight. We did not eat in fast foods and our fun was sport, not playing computer games.

 

[s.a.f]

I've got to agree with CCS!
The cheapest food available is fruit and veg in the UK could probably but enough fruit and veg to live on for a week for the cost of a couple of 12" pizzas from a big high street chain. And homemade meals are always cheaper than pre packaged garbage. So money should'nt be an excuse for eating junk food and being obese.

 

[Felk]

CCS is a troll

You must be new here .

Haha, unfortunately I remember his arrival all too well... :roll:

 

[wookster]

http://www.webmd.com/news/20070412/obes ... RSS_PUBLIC

April 12, 2007 -- Researchers today announced the discovery of the first common gene link to obesity.

They reviewed genetic data on more than 38,000 children and adults in the U.K. and Europe. A certain variation in the FTO gene was associated extra body fat, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.

Other studies show there are genetic links to obesity. But "the key thing about this finding is that this is a common variant, which is present in over half the population" studied, Andrew Hattersley, DM, FRCP, told reporters in a news conference.

 

[bubka]

and did over half of the non-fat kids have the gene?

wook, why do you post quotes in caps all the time like that? i think something is wrong with your computer

 

[MidnightFlyer]

The obesity epidemic can be traced back directly to the introduction and ubiquitous use of - high fructose corn syrup.

Before this was introduced, there was no obesity epidemic.

 

[Guest]

Well I think it's a choice, at least for me. I have very slow metabolism and I'm almost like doomed to be fat. I could gain like 10 kg so easily if I'd stopped caring what I put into my mouth. My weight goes up and down very easily, it can change 5 kg in a week even without trying. I know it sounds crazy but that's how it is.

 

[Hans Gruber]

im 6ft and i weigh about 155lbs ,just over 11st.......i have to eat A LOT to gain weight,i have once just about hit 12st or 168lbs but the moment i start to miss any food here n there i drop the weight.....................

 

[CCS]

I'm right in the middle.