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[Bruenin]

@thundero
Diet affects a lot, pastas and things like ramen noodles will blow you up

 

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>.<

 

[Thundero13]

@Bru: My favourite type of food which I eat a lot of will blow me up will it?

 

[Bruenin]

@thundero
Ramen should.. it has 800+ calories a pack
Pastas generally have high calories too
3000 calories = a pound

Though you burn 2000 calories a day using basic bodily functions

 

[Thundero13]

@Bru: Oh umm, if this comes out sounding insulting then i'm sorry but uh...
*ahem*
I don't live in America

 

[retyopy]

Wow... Really? What if I just poop all day?

 

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@Thundero: *Le-gasp*

Heathen!

[sub][sub]Just Kidding I've always known.[/sub][/sub]

 

[Bruenin]

@thundero
Majority of the people I meet are skinny, few beer bellies here and there though I only saw 3 or 5 people really obese. I live in between a few cities though.
I'm not offended btw

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added more thought and those numbers are actually terrible, its really bad

 

[Bruenin]

@retyopy
That might not be too healthy

 

[Thundero13]

@Xambi: You knew? I'm sorry, I was just too scared to say it *sobs*

@Bru: Oh really? Because when I visited Chicago everywhere I looked it was just a buncha balloons!
...
Ok, I wasn't really trying that time... >.>
ANYWAY, case in point, food has less calories over here

 

[Bruenin]

@thunder
Less calories eh? lucky
I bet it tastes better too, all thats around here is kind of mush

 

[Best of the 3]

@Thunder @Bru:

I'm 6ft 3 and weight under 11 stone (usually 10.5, but never reaching 11)

I've been trying to gain weight for ages now. I changed my diets, full of proteins and carbohydrates, made sure I always consumed more energy than I lost. But no matter what I've done, I never gain any weight. If anything I just lose what little muscle mass I do have (last christmas I lost 1/2 a stone >.<)

Diet is important, but for me it does nothing. Don't really know what will >.<

 

[Best of the 3]

PS: What type of food doesn't actually matter, as long as you consume more energy than you lose you should put it in as fat, which is how the excess energy is stored. Working off said energy gives muscle I think.

 

[Bruenin]

@best_of_the_3
Thats kinda weird
Have you tried moving to America?

 

[Best of the 3]

@Bru: Went to Florida once (the year Katrina hit, that was bad timing). THe portions are ridiculous. Went to an iHop. Ordered breakfast, bluberry pancakes. They were nice. The plate was huge and the pancakes filled it. There were 3 of them too. Probably about the circumference of a steering wheel of a small car, and about 1-1.5 centimeters thick each.

Only managed about half of that.

And it's not weird, it's biology (Or at least the little bit of it I remember before dropping that subject) =P

 

[Bruenin]

PS: What type of food doesn't actually matter, as long as you consume more energy than you lose you should put it in as fat, which is how the excess energy is stored. Working off said energy gives muscle I think.

Usually people who are overweight are sensitive to insulin. When you eat carbohydrates your body makes insulin, the extra sensitivity to it causes kind of a hunger spike and they eat more than they need and gain weight. It repeats and everyones fat.

Btw I'm talking out of memory, of something I read from a cracked article so you might not want to take all that too seriously

 

[Bruenin]

@best
Okay so its not weird, i'm sowwy

 

[Best of the 3]

PS: What type of food doesn't actually matter, as long as you consume more energy than you lose you should put it in as fat, which is how the excess energy is stored. Working off said energy gives muscle I think.

Usually people who are overweight are sensitive to insulin. When you eat carbohydrates your body makes insulin, the extra sensitivity to it causes kind of a hunger spike and they eat more than they need and gain weight. It repeats and everyones fat.

Btw I'm talking out of memory, of something I read from a cracked article so you might not want to take all that too seriously

You're probably right, albeit missing a few things. Don't know enough about Insulin to correct you at all though.

I do know that fat itself causes you to be fat. Learnt it in psychology not long ago. I can't remember the chemical, but when you gain abdominal fat, a chemical is produced that then travels to the brain. It them stimulates part of the brain responsible for eating. Probably the Lateral Hypothalomus or the VMH (Ventromedial Hypothalomus or something like that XP). That then causes you to eat more, producing more fat cells, stimulating your brain, causing eating, etc etc. I know a few other psychological reasons for eating, specifically leading to obesity.

 

[Thundero13]

@Bru: Oh hell yes! The food over there just made me feel sick tbh >.< There was no joy in eating it, just... eww
...
I liked your pancakes though... >.>

@Besto: Apparently i'm about 8.5 stone, and i'm 5'11, and apart from being born twice the average weight I have been very thin for all of my life :3 Not something i've ever really thought of as a problem though, I figured that since wveryone elsse in my family seems to blow up when they're 30 I probably will too...

 

[Best of the 3]

@Thunder: I was an extremely fat baby!

And I wouldn't say being thin is a problem, more just extremely annoying for me. I bruise easily, veins stick out of my hands/arms, I'm not all that comfortable and stick limbs just seem to be everywhere.

It's just annoying enough for me to want to change it. But even if I stay this way I'm fine.