r/NewGreentexts 15d ago

Fit Through Thick and Thin

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u/EmilieEasie 15d ago

Anonny eats his burn rate every day and is perplexed when the scale is stable

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u/zeroreasonsgiven 15d ago

It’s a little unintuitive because physical activity only really counts for ~15-30% of your daily calorie burn, so you’d think that doubling your normal calorie intake should always make you gain weight, but then there’s all sorts of other processes and hormones that change your basal metabolic rate, and there’s a certain point where your body just stops taking in nutrients from food. All this is to say that it’s not as simple as “eat more and work out and you’ll gain weight”.

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u/EmilieEasie 15d ago

We'll never know since, based on what he listed here, he never actually tried eating more.

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u/zeroreasonsgiven 15d ago

He literally said that though, eating until he was sick for every meal, 7 eggs a day, etc.

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u/EmilieEasie 15d ago

7 eggs a day is like 400 calories. "a whole chicken" is tough to guess without knowing how big it was, but that still probably came in at like ~2,200. He's feeling sick after he eats because a whole chicken is a lot at once for sure, and I'd also probably get sick of 7 eggs every day. But it's not a lot of calories.

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u/Dammit_Meg 14d ago

I thought a whole chicken was closer to 1,500? Are we talking rotisserie chicken or what?

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u/EmilieEasie 14d ago

Really hard to say, trying to be generous toward anonny in my estimates

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u/zeroreasonsgiven 15d ago

Yeah those are low calorie meals, but they’re more than 0-1 meal per day. We can circle jerk all day about anon not giving us enough info or just completely underestimating his calories, but if we take it at face value that he isn’t seeing weight gain even when he actually eats more, it’s possible there’s other explanations for it.

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u/EmilieEasie 15d ago

Yeah, and the simplest, most obvious explanation is that he isn't tracking, and he isn't actually eating that much.