Nope. If I go to Wendy's I'll usually check some side "sandwiches" with my main meal - so if I get spicy chicken sandwich I'll get 2 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers on the side as an "appetizer" lol.
Hell yes. This is how it always is.
Nope. If I go to Wendy's I'll usually check some side "sandwiches" with my main meal - so if I get spicy chicken sandwich I'll get 2 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers on the side as an "appetizer" lol.
Doesn't help when you have shit like this
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This is a good idea. Thanks for this!If you are at your typical American sit down restaurant get a salad w/ the dressing on the side, get grilled instead of fried chicken if that's the protein, and either ask for no croutons or only eat a few. Dip your fork in the salad dressing before taking a bite, it should add plenty of flavor and you'll end up consuming maybe a quarter of the dressing you would normally.
Yep pretty much. And like even something as simple as this being mandatory on nutrition facts would totally change peoples perspectives on food.
Like people's LARGEST issues are how much food we are consuming and the amount of calories associated, vs what is expended. We just eat way too fucking much food. I gag now at eating out and knowing a meal is literally worth a wholes day of food. Now imagine eating out like that 3 or two times a day and it's no wonder why people are obese.
Yep pretty much. And like even something as simple as this being mandatory on nutrition facts would totally change peoples perspectives on food.
Like people's LARGEST issues are how much food we are consuming and the amount of calories associated, vs what is expended. We just eat way too fucking much food. I gag now at eating out and knowing a meal is literally worth a wholes day of food. Now imagine eating out like that 3 or two times a day and it's no wonder why people are obese.
Doesn't help when you have shit like this
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But skinny people can be unhealthy too. /S normalizing obesity is something that shouldn't be done and like you said if your fine with your image that's good but know that there can be implications because of it.Normalising obesity should stop and people with high BMI who "have grown to accept their body" should be more conscious of what they are saying. If you love your body you'd think you'd be taking care of things like your heart and your knees.
Don't buy packaged shit. Food is not as expensive as you think. It all boils down to laziness.
Everytime I hear normalizing obesity my eyes roll out of my head. Even if that was occurring it's a result of people being more fat not what made more of our population fat. It's an effect not a damn cause.
The US gets single-payer healthcare.
Fat people cost more to care for and taxes go up to pay for all the fat people.
Fat people are blamed for the tax hike.
Social outcry against fatties, they are pressured to lose weight, lawmakers are pressured to force them to.
Food becomes more heavily regulated, sugar is taxed. Global warming reduces crop yields, exacerbating this.
A bodyfat positive social movement grows. Eating expensive sweets is a status symbol.
Fat is hip and sexy now, as few can afford the lifestyle.
Normies start to appropriate fat culture.
People were fat long before it was even a thing. Most fat people dont even know it exists
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/healthy-vs-unhealthy-diet-costs-1-50-more/
And that's not even accounting for cost-of-access to fruit and vegetables.
In contrast to the findings for food-based diet patterns, healthier versus less healthy nutrient-based diet patterns were not significantly different in price when based on a day's actual intake, but only cost more when standardised to 2000 kcal. These results mirror those observed when comparing individual food groups, such as dairy, based on single-nutrient metrics of healthfulness. These findings emphasise the crucial role of the unit of comparison when comparing prices by nutrient-based metrics. Healthier diets defined based on fibre or fat content will, by definition, have fewer calories, so they will naturally cost more per calorie. Yet, such diets will not necessarily cost more per serving or per meal. In the setting of a global obesity pandemic, assessing price differences per calorie may make little sense when a healthier diet also leads to reductions in total calorie consumption. Growing evidence also indicates that single or selected nutrients are less useful for distinguishing effects on major chronic diseases than types of foods and food-based diet patterns.
Fair enoughThat blurb is very misleading. That difference is specifically highlighted for healthy Mediterranean diets with lots of fish and nuts, two especially expensive things. I'm not saying food deserts don't exist, but the next paragraph in the study says
Basically, 2000cals of fish costs more than 2000cals of fatty ground beef, but that's not useful information.
Size our regular size is labeled as snack size in the US.
Because the problem is more than food. Notice how most of the developed nations that is having these problems are the Anglo-Saxons ones, those countries that openly embraced suburban style development in the last few decades? It also about the design of our cities and car dependency. Most people just gloss over them because they think it's a separate issue entirely. You also see the same pattern in developing nations that are embracing these American style developments as they get wealthier.Yeah, it's fucking crazy. Thankfully we don't have as much sugar pumped into regular foods here in Britain as Americans seem to have, but even then it's such a trap to fall into and it's incredibly difficult to get out of.
I'm currently losing weight and, so far, it's worked out quite well (around 22lbs lost since July ), and one of the main things I had to do was quit the sugary stuff. It got to a point where I would have to have some sort of large sugary "treat" every single day (usually ranging in the 600-1,000 calorie range) or else I'd feel, well, wrong. After two months of really only eating sugar-free Jelly (Jello), fruit and the occasional Apple Pie for deserts I bought a bag of chocolate as a treat and... I just didn't enjoy it. It felt like nothing, like it simply wasn't worth it.
Unfortunately I wouldn't agree. We have great nutritional information in the UK and even then we've constistently been getting fatter as a nation over the past decade or so. We also have stuff like government-funded advertising schemes, free fruit for kids at supermarkets, and the 'traffic light' system (see below):
It would help, definitely, but to make a massive change there's going to need to be massive changes to go alongside it.
Because the problem is more than food. Notice how most of the developed nations that is having these problems are the Anglo-Saxons ones, those countries that openly embraced suburban style development in the last few decades? Yeah it's also about the design of our cities.
As someone who topped 330LBs and was overweight a majority of his life, never again. It was the worst thing I could've done to my body. Walking around and just doing normally every day activities tired the hell out of me. Plus, I was super self conscious and I always thought I looked ugly with my weight which really prevented me from going outside.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/healthy-vs-unhealthy-diet-costs-1-50-more/
And that's not even accounting for cost-of-access to fruit and vegetables.
Giants, tooIt's always hilarious how people hate on BMI. Like everybody's a fucking bodybuilder all of a sudden lol.
No they don't. What are you basing this off of or am I missing your sarcasm?Why, the burbs provide you with ample trails or paths to run or walk?
I would argue that smartphones, tablets and a general sedentary lifestyle are more harmful. I personally spend at least 12 hours a day sitting. That can't be good for my body.
No they don't. What are you basing this off of or am I missing your sarcasm?
I can empathize with being overly self-conscious. Took me 30 years to stop caring. If I'm at the gym and someone's going to mock me for being fat, fuck them. But it took a long time. I lack self-esteem, I've always been super shy, I suffer from social anxiety and depression (the last of which makes me exhausted and unmotivated quite regularly and also contributes to over-eating!!).
I can't speak to this with a hundred percent certainty, but I'm pretty sure I've read a lot about how poor people eat poorly (sorry) because they can't afford to spend the extra money on healthy food. 45 bucks might not sound like a lot to you (sure doesn't to me), but when you're literally living paycheck to paycheck? I've given money to a friend here and there just so they could afford rent, and I know they weren't faking it. I don't know how much "most Americans" means to you, but I know there's a not insignificant number that live in poverty.So it costs 1.50 per day more. Times 30 that's 45 a month. This should be doable for most Americans. Also I could not find out if the research took into account farmer markets and such.
Because those are separate activities you have to think about. Living in a walkable neighborhood makes you walk to the grocery store, makes you walk to the bus station, makes you walk to the bank, etc. All these little walks add up and you don't even have to think about it and before you know it you already walked two to three miles before even hitting the gym that day. No joke, many Americans' only form of exercise is walking from the parking lot to the store/office each day.Why, the burbs provide you with ample trails or paths to run or walk?
I would argue that smartphones, tablets and a general sedentary lifestyle are more harmful. I personally spend at least 12 hours a day sitting. That can't be good for my body.
Doesn't help when you have shit like this
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Because those are separate activities you have to think about. Living in a walkable neighborhood makes you walk to the grocery store, makes you walk to the bus station, makes you walk to the bank, etc. All these little walks add up and you don't even have to think about it and before you know it you already walked two to three miles before even hitting the gym that day. No joke, many Americans' only form of exercise is walking from the parking lot to the store/office each day.
If your area is walkable, there is no need for 'motivation' to get out and take advantage of those trails. You just walk as an everyday part of your life.
I find people's concern over other people's obesity to be silly, so I posted nonsense.
Quoted for the truth. Sit at home to sit in traffic to sit at work to go home and sit.No joke, many Americans' only form of exercise is walking from the parking lot to the store/office each day.
Don't buy packaged shit. Food is not as expensive as you think. It all boils down to laziness.
this trend is incredible. it doesn't look like it's going to stop either...
Coincidentally, I moved to Hawaii 10 months ago and have gotten back to a size 34 waist. Feels good man. I spend a lot of my free time in the ocean here.
I wasnt aware and just looked it up they have to be now compliant by January 1, 2020. But i havent seen many products move to the new label, (they should have all changed in 2018)What are you talking about?
The nutrition label reform that happened a couple of years ago does require that companies transition to the format you're showing.
But skinny people can be unhealthy too. /S normalizing obesity is something that shouldn't be done and like you said if your fine with your image that's good but know that there can be implications because of it.
As someone who topped 330LBs and was overweight a majority of his life, never again. It was the worst thing I could've done to my body. Walking around and just doing normally every day activities tired the hell out of me. Plus, I was super self conscious and I always thought I looked ugly with my weight which really prevented me from going outside.
I decided to turn it around ended up packing my own food to work and eating more healthy choices. Ended up going all the way down to 240 but gained some back so I'm at 250 now.
Regardless of that I'm way more happier than I was before and went from a XXXL to a XL. Back on that right loss journey and am hoping I can get myself to 200.
Is BMI the one that doesn't measure accurately? Like a body builder would be considered obese under it, right?
For me calories is calories, they come from bio vegies & fruits like any other processed food. The only argument about good or bad colories when it comes to weight ( and not health ) is that non processed food should make you feel fuller for the same amount of calories; which does not mean that someone can't eat too much calories with mostly "healthy" food.I'm sorry folks. It seems a consensus has been made in this thread about people getting fat because they eat unhealthy calories and don't go to the gym. Fine, thanks for that scientifically accepted and well-known opinion.
Then you're lucky. Some suburbs straight up don't have any sidewalks.Yes they do. Every suburb in the tristate area I have lived in has/had access trails or walking paths.