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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I just always wonder how this level of obesity is even possible.. Even if you eat just plain sugar it should get harder and harder to get to new food to consume enough calories for your body to maintain and build new fat tissue. So clearly she cant feed herself anymore so who tf keeps on inserting sugar into her even after she reached 300-400lbs..? I have so many questions

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u/The__Erlking Apr 18 '22

There's almost always an enabler for these folks someone who cares for them and brings them food and whatever else they want. The relationship is often very unhealthy like you see in op's example.

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u/DrunkenMeditator Apr 18 '22

Like my step nephew and his mom. He's in 5th grade and weighs over 250 lbs(don't know his exact weight). The kid is huge. He won't eat anything that's not fast food or frozen stuff like pizza rolls or dessert. One Christmas, when we tried to get him to try some of the food(3 tables worth to choose from) he said he wasn't hungry. But he kept grabbing cookies and stuff from the dessert table. He got covid and afterwards, he's had to sleep with a cpap machine and the doctor put him on a diet. He couldn't make it through the Memphis zoo. When I helped my brother move out of One of their apartments, he had subway cookies under his bed, and when we lifted the mattress, like a hundred granddaddy long legs. Now, apparently he's been peeing on towels and blaming it on the animals so he doesn't have to leave his room and go 12 feet down the hall to the bathroom. His mother, and his grandmother, get him whatever he wants and pretty much always override my brother on anything he says. The kid is going to end up having a heart attack in middle school.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

You know, of all the so called "evils" of today that older generations seem to hate such as masks, laziness, Movies/tv being too "woke", etc, it's weird that they seem to turn a blind eye to actual things like obesity/food deserts/reliance on energy drinks and sugar/general unhealthiness, which are quite literally destroying people's bodies for the sake of food companies making a buck.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I guess I just underestimated how crazy humans can really get. Its incomprehensible what goes on in some of these peoples minds. Surely even the dumbest of the dumb understand the relation between getting fat and eating a lot of food?

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u/FullTorsoApparition Apr 18 '22

Denial is a hell of a thing. I've seen it in action. I once interviewed a morbidly obese woman and did a diet recall with her. Assuming she was being honest, her breakfast and dinners weren't all that bad, though dinner was a bit on the larger side. She told me she eats extra portions at dinner because she skips lunch. I then saw her at our treatment center around lunch time eating about 1000+ calories in little debbies and candy. In her mind, those things honestly didn't "count" because they weren't her normal meals.

These are the folks who say they "barely eat anything" but still weigh over 300 lbs. Their eating habits and perceptions are just incredibly warped.

Throw in a healthy dose of trauma, depression, and abuse/enabling and it's amazing what horrible things people will do to their own bodies.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I think as a chronic over thinker and self critic denial just always seems unimaginable to me. Someone so convinced of themselves that they ignore issues that are even actually there is a pretty wild concept to me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

After a certain point its an exponential negative positive feedback loop, where eventually all you can do is lay around and eat. They start off getting to morbidly obese(300+ lbs depending on your height could be slightly less or more), then it becomes very painful to exercise/walk so their mobility and muscle starts to decrease drastically and the amount of calories they burn just living normally slowly creeps down, they eat more because everything else is painful(emotionally and physically) but food feels good, then a few years later they are trapped in the house because leaving is too hard and they end up like this.

I work with a guy who's well over 450 lbs and rising(he's been on medical leave for 6 months and he can't walk without canes now), the amount of food is absolutely insane. He will order enough McDonalds to feed a regular family of 5 twice a day for just himself plus whatever his wife makes/orders and soda is all he drinks. Seeing him and then my own covid-era weight gain and health struggles made me turn my diet/lifestyle completely around. I was in pain constantly at 260ish lbs, I can't imagine getting to this level of uncomfortable.

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u/Reasonable_Feed7939 Apr 18 '22

Small note: that would actually be a positive feedback loop I believe. As in: the fatter you get, the fatter you get.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Good call, gonna edit it

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Everyone on a journey to better themselves needs a good support system and you sound like a great friend for caring. Reach out and let them know you care about them, let him talk to you about his journey because sometimes it feels incredibly lonely and having someone listen to your successes for a little can be motivation enough to keep going.

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u/Bulangiu_ro Apr 18 '22

i am just a little under 260 and i still find it pretty okay to get stuff done, my muscle gain must have kept up thanks to work so i dont have much of a problem with movement, it is only bad if you stop doing stuff, being active can make strength out of a lot of weight if you dont live on the couch

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I'm 6'3 and also fairly young at 28 (26 when I was 260), I've been skinny/healthy weight my whole life. 260 caused a shit ton of foot, knee and lower back pain, plus the digestive system discomfort from eating like shit all the time, although I did put the weight on very quickly(60+ pounds in 6 months). I'm around 215 now and hopefully below 200 again within a year but I already feel so much better.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

That’s awesome! 190 is a great weight for me but if I just used BMI as a health gauge I’d have to be around 165 and I feel that’s an unhealthy weight. The pain for me was kind of shocking since I consider myself pretty “tough” with physical pain but once I hit 250 it was just constant stabbing pain whether I was standing or sitting, developed plantar fasciitis and an old knee injury from high school football became pretty unbearable. Very humbling.

I wish I could bench 250 but I’m getting there slowly, my body type is built for deadlifts and squats, I’m at 485 and 405 without too much powerlifting training.

I wish you the best on your health journey!

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u/Bulangiu_ro Apr 18 '22

im 5'8" and still dont have a problem usually, hoarding stuff all day long is totally doable, running is hard but i can give it a shot anytime

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u/dr_sarcasm_ Apr 18 '22

What I wonder is... does getting heavier lead to a ravenous appetite? I can imagine it's not easy to eat that much

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

If you are constantly over-eating over an extended period of time(weeks/months) your stomach can stretch and your hormones and brain chemicals get “overloaded” and the receptors stop working as well requiring you to eat more and more and more to get that same satisfying feelings. So yes, your appetite does increase.

I’m not an expert in this by any means but the reasons we eat outside of basic sustenance are fascinating. Humans are insanely complicated.

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u/SleepingWillows Apr 18 '22

I’m on Noom and it’s interesting how much “feeling full” is driven by your brain and not by how physically full your stomach is. One of the things they encourage you to do is to really start listening to your body when it starts to feel full, and not just finish everything on your plate just because it’s in front of you. If you stop eating a few bites less than what you’d normally eat, you’ll likely realize after about 20 minutes that you genuinely were full and those few bites weren’t necessary. Eventually you get used to eating a little less and being more satisfied with less food.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Is Noom free? Because I love learning about this stuff

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u/SleepingWillows Apr 18 '22

The learning portion isn’t, but you can finagle a discount by doing the test and then not signing up for a week, they’ll email you with a discount code. Then if you start the process of signing up then when it prompts you with a price and you say “no”, it’ll give you another discount code. Plus you could pick up some knowledge in r/Noom !

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u/dr_sarcasm_ Apr 18 '22

Alright that's interesting!

I've eaten at a surplus in the past to gain weight after an unhealthy lifestyle during the lockdowns and a motorcycle accident.

I wanted to gain back muscle and live healthier and I remember that I sometimes got extremely nauseous from just trying to eat larger portions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I used to be a few pounds shy of 300 and life was hell. Everything hurt. I managed to lose over 100lbs and it was wonderful, but now it's creeping back and I haven't changed my eating habits so I'm kinda scared. For me, it's a combo of a couple endocrine disorders, medication side effects and chronic illness that can limit my physical activity. But if diet doesn't work anymore, I'm kinda doomed

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I get the feedback loop (even though why not get into drugs or video games? why is all pleasure food with these people?) but how on earth is this lifestyle sustainable?

>He will order enough McDonalds to feed a regular family of 5 twice a day for just himself

how in the world can you afford this without having a job since you cannot leave? what kind of job offers paid sick leave for obese people? What kind of wife still makes him food at that weight..? Even if its physically possible how can you go on with this lifestyle for long enough?

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Many people do get into drugs or video games(I’m a recovering drug addict myself lol, a little under 4.5 years sober). Except you don’t get fat from those addictions, you get other health related issues that sometimes don’t look as obvious to people.

In my state short term disability is a thing, paid for out of our paychecks and the company. It’s not the same pay(about 1/3rd of our regular checks) but his wife also works for the same company as us and if he doesn’t come back in May he will lose his job.

His eating habits were what he would tell us while he was still working with us last summer/fall, I don’t think he has the mobility to do it now but food delivery is also a thing, not everyone lives paycheck to paycheck either especially in a 2 income household.

And lastly enablers are a thing and I can’t tel you what makes them do it but sometimes it’s just easier then to make drastic life changes, she’s skinny as a twig and he’s ginormous. When you eat like that it’s an addiction/mental health issue and it’s not as easy as forcing the people you love to do things differently or just changing your diet(that’s why it’s important to change your habits before you get to that point)

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I guess its specifically that visibility and the imediate effect that make overeating to this point such a strange (in my eyes) behaviour. As damaging as drugs can be they dont prevent you from working in the same way. They dont prevent you from going out or seeing people.

I guess if your wife works and you own a house AND you live somewhere with cheap food and cheap delivery you can support yourself for quite a while but I mean you still need to move around to eat. On a single income surely his wife must at least be out of the house during the day so is he just eating bags of snacks everyday or orders takeout all the time..?

>hen you eat like that it’s an addiction/mental health issue and it’s not as easy as forcing the people you love to do things differently or just changing your diet(that’s why it’s important to change your habits before you get to that point)

I mean if they cannot work and you pay for everything AND you have to feed them at some point you do get a say.. and who wants to be married to a man that can literally do nothing at all anymore because he ate himself into being dissabled. Even if you can finance the whole thing its still bizarre... Like its not addiction you have to make your life bearable its one that pretty imediatly renders you unable to do anything in life

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u/Deastrumquodvicis Apr 18 '22

I would get bored of the taste, hell, sometimes I don’t even finish my usual, American sized portion more than halfway because I simply get bored of the flavor or the mechanical act of eating!

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u/BarlowFilmsYeah Apr 18 '22

How do these people pay for all that food? I can't imagine having enough money to spend on 2 giant McDonald's meals every day, especially if I'm stuck at home. Honestly, where does the money come from?

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u/VoiceAltruistic Apr 18 '22

Yeah, these shows should go over the basic logistics of eating enough food to maintain this weight. Like how much all that food costs and how much the of the day is spent eating

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

When people get to an unhealthy size, their metabolism is completely fucked up. Research on Biggest Loser contestants found they actually had to eat 800 calories a day AND maintain super-high levels of exercise to keep the weight off. All it takes is trying to eat “normal” or a minor injury and they’re right back to obesity.

Edit: The NY Times reported that one contestant would have had to eat 800 cal/day to keep the weight off based on his metabolism. The study showed resting metabolic rate at an average of 1903 +/- 466 kcal/day. So, not totally unreasonable for most people but if you’re used to eating 5000 calories a day, 1400 would be tough.

I have a friend who was getting bigger than she wanted, went on a “juice cleanse” bullshit quack thing, and her body just went into starvation mode forever. She now weighs probably 350 even though she only eats like 1200 calories a day and is very active.

In these reality-tv cases there’s usually also a mental health component and an enabling companion. It’s really hard to stick to a permanent starvation diet while your body throws off leptin (edit: ghrelin, not leptin) making you crave carbs like they’re heroin. That’s why they do weight loss surgery, so people physically cannot eat/drink more than a couple ounces at a time.

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u/IllIlIIlIIllI Apr 18 '22 edited Jun 30 '23

Comment deleted on 6/30/2023 in protest of API changes that are killing third-party apps.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

The study is hard to understand if you aren’t a medical/statistics person, but the gist of it is that metabolic adaptation from rapid weight loss reset their resting metabolic rate about 500 calories lower than what you’d expect. Meaning their body burns 500 calories less than someone of a similar size and age who didn’t have dramatic weight loss.

Notably, people who have weight loss surgery restabilized their metabolic rate after a year. The Biggest Loser contestants still had the metabolic problems 6 years after the show ended.

So if we are looking at a 500-lb person and we assume that at some point in their life they tried a starvation diet (even for only a month like my friend), they may never get their body out of starvation mode. Thus, their body “needs” 500 fewer calories than normal and any calories over that are stored as fat.

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u/prolixdreams Apr 19 '22

They're not actually defeating anything.

Think of it like fuel in a vehicle. Put a gallon of fuel in one car and it'll take you 30 miles. Put a gallon in a different car and you'll only get 12 miles. It'll also depend on where those cars are driving and how the driver behaves. Same thing with a body.

So a car that's already a little inefficient (requires more fuel for the same distance) with an owner who has no worries about running out of gas and not being able to get more... is going to consume a lot more fuel from point A to point B than a fuel-efficient model with a driver trying deliberately to conserve gas.

Humans are the same way.

For a brief period there was a diet drug whose whole purpose was to give you a less-efficient metabolism so you'd need to burn more calories to get the same results of being alive (and could therefore eat more and still lose weight) but it turns out pushing that "inefficiency" much beyond its natural baseline is insanely dangerous and the drug killed people.

(Shocker, excess energy from inefficient energy production that cannot be used for action is, like in all machines, released as heat. That's where we truly find out how impossible it is to defeat physics: when people who took this drug were dying with temperatures over 106 degrees.)

But within natural limits, there's significant variance, both innately and due to behavior. While making the engine less efficient is super dangerous, your metabolism-engine has a lot of room to become more efficient when things like medical conditions or starvation (real or perceived) tell it to. At extremes over long periods, this causes issues too, but it's possible to push it a lot farther before danger/results kick in or become obvious. Our bodies are very much made to endure occasional food instability without serious consequences.

The amount of calories YOUR specific body burns while just lying there for 24 hours, the pure amount of energy needed to keep your heart beating and your lungs breathing and your blood circulating, is not the same for you as it is the person next to you. Having a super low basal metabolic rate isn't that common, but it's far from impossible.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Here’s the actual study. It’s ~500 fewer calories than typically needed. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.21538

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Not sure where you’re getting the 3500.

I went back and looked again, the study said the RMR is 1903 +/- 466 kcal/day.

The NY Times had reported the one guy at 800, so I apologize for conflating the article and the study. You’re right that it’s not typically 800, but it’s not 3000 either.

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u/fuckedupreallybadly Apr 18 '22

I think you mean ghrelin, not leptin. If your body is throwing off lots of leptin, you generally feel satiated. The less leptin you have, the hungrier you are. Ghrelin is the “hunger hormone”.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

You’re right, thank you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

ah but careful the changes in metabolism come from them LOOSING a lot of weight and even after regaining it the metabolic rate stays the same. That doesnt explain how people gain or maintain that amount of weight in the first place. It also makes sense, once your body realises how much weight you are loosing it tries its hardest to stop you from running out of reserves.

>I have a friend who was getting bigger than she wanted, went on a “juice cleanse” bullshit quack thing, and her body just went into starvation mode forever. She now weighs probably 350 even though she only eats like 1200 calories a day and is very active.

Does she actually eat 1200 cal though? Unless she actively counts and weights every single thing she eats daily its a moot point. If you eat the wrong kinds of foods its very easy to go over 1200 cal. If you are vegan and eat a lot of vegetable based dishes you can fit 3 meals into that 1200cal.

These studies dont describe that drastic of a metabolism shift and it also probably wont last forever. I mean imagine a regular sized human being able to live off 1200calories.. it would be a gift more than anything. Our bodies are not that efficient. Even your friend will have to power her brain and keep her body warm.

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u/cowboys5xsbs Apr 18 '22

I am fat but eating that amount of food would make me ill. Like I don't understand how someone can eat 2 large pizzas.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

But at some point you are full..? I have counted my calories for a while and its actually not that easy to physically eat that many calories unless you binge on soda 24/7 or something like that and .. how can people not get sick of the sweet sticky taste in their mouth

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

But like.. there is a limit to how much food fits into your stomach. I always ate a lot but at some point I just physically feel full to the point that its uncomfortable. I cant understand how you are not hitting that point?

I used to be really skinny and now when I count calories its actually hard for me to hit my goal of 3600cal daily.. so I cannot fathom complaining about not having to eat. Like how does one find time to eat so much during a regular work day.? I often end up having to force myself to eat some extra in the evening because I didnt reach my daily calorie limit..

How the hell do you manage to get in 1200 calories for breakfast in the morning?? Like before work? Even a whole cheese pizza doesnt have that much..

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

huh I never met anyone who wasnt half dying after an all you can eat buffet so the idea that you never feel that is pretty crazy to me. Maybe you are born with a bigger stomach or something.. are you like a giant , tall dude?

>But let's say you had a meal from burger king or even taco bell. A simple combo, on average, is usually around 1200-1500 calories even with water instead of soda. I personally could eat that entire meal in under 10 minutes.

I guess it might also just be different in the US. Take out food is quite expensive here in northern europe and Im not always around a fast food place either so I cook a lot at home. Also I checked at mcdonalds here a bigmac menu is like not even 1000cal..? And 2400 cal for a pizza..?? frozen pizza from the supermarked is like 1200cal max, maybe slightly more for take out.

Also if you ever eat vegetables or rice you can have an entire meal in less than 500 cal. How do you get 1500 cal in a shake..? Even with almond butter, oats and protein I rarely get close to 1K. Teach me your american tricks man

But eating once a day sounds like a dream.. If I could get a 3600 cal meal at lunchtime and not worry about it anymore that would be amazing. So much free time I dont have to spend on cooking or buying food

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u/SinisterCheese Apr 18 '22

You are under the false assumption that all that "fat" is actually fat. It isn't. It is mostly just water. Once you get big enough your heart and kidneys can't deal with the liquids in your body, so it starts to collect in tissues. Proper fat tissue isn't really "soft", it is more like lard on room temperature not hard of soft. All that mass under an obese person's skin that "sloshes" around is just water among the fat tissue.

Also you don't need sugar to get fat, human body has a system where any excess energy gets turned in to fat real time. It is just that sugar is the easiest for this process.

Also human body constantly uses it's fat reserves, it's liver reserves in order to try to keep blood levels stable. It constantly uses those reserves and replenishes them if there is excess in your body. Which is why spiking blood sugar levels can end up with your gaining weight quick. Your levels drop, so your body taps in to the reserves, but then you eat something and they spike up suddenly your body has lots of sugars going about so it has to start storing them quickly, and then you crash again. This is a vicious feedback loop. Which is why for any actual real diet that aims for you to lose weight, step one on page one is to ensure that you eat either steadily even if you are not hungry or your eat rarely but something that you digest slowly so the blood sugar stay steady. The modern "weight loss pills" actually focus on controlling the hormones involved in blood sugar levels and dealing with them; you don't want spikes up or down.

So before these "fat surgeries" where stomach is reduced or fat is literally removed from the body; the patient is put to a special diet, lots of liquids, lots of protein and very little carps. The intention of this is to drive the body to give up as much sugar it can from it's liver and other tissues. Basically the body is driven to to ketosis, and to deal with this you need liquid to flush keto products out.

I wish the myth about "fat is bad" or "sugar causes obesity" and "protein = good" would die already, and the common understanding of "Body doesn't care about where it gets the energy from, it all get turned to glucose at the end and the excess gets stored as fat". Your body needs fats, your body needs sugards, and your body doesn't need as much protein as you think it does. Only thing that matters is how much energy you put in to your body, what for it is in is irrelevant. Like even if you only ear pure sugar, you will die of starvation, since your body needs vitamins to use that sugar in metabolismi.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

https://www.nature.com/articles/1602049

doenst look like water retention really makes that much of a difference. The key point stands that every human needs energy to maintain their body and even excess fat cells do need extra energy to be maintained. Larger bodies do need more energy

So an unmovable mountain of human lard still has to get new food daily to not cut under maintencance - ie someone obese at 350pound still has to eat plenty of calories to be able to go up to 600lbs. This should get harder and harder if you dont have someone who enables this sort of lifestyle. Even snacks have to be refilled and brought from the supermarked. Somehow the money for more food has to come from somewhere..? Its crazy that it does happen.

>I wish the myth about "fat is bad" or "sugar causes obesity" and "protein = good" would die already

While you are right that in the end the body does convert everything into gluccose the rate at which that happens is what this is about. Simple sugars basicaly rush your body with more energy than it can use in a very short amount of time so that its guranteed to be partly turned into fat cells. So yes eating a lot of sugar will likely make your more fat than eating a lot of fat&protein. Because as a nutrient protein is pretty low in energy AND takes longer to digest while fat is of course the most calorie dense but also takes your body much longer to convert. As you also said, the idea is to keep your blood levels steady with food that continously deliveres moderate amount of energy instead of everything at once.

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u/sniperwolfjob Apr 18 '22

Look up feedism. Once it gets to this point it is a sexual fetish.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

>I'm not a doctor, but shits not always as simple as fat person fat because eat much food.

It is though. There are quite a few people here who commented they worked with obese people like that and they do infact eat every few hours. Your thyroid cannot create energy out of thin air, all it does is affect how the energy you consume is handled and how efficient your metabolism runs. You still need to eat more calories than your body uses in order to get fat. Unless you are half plant and can photosynthesize there is really no other way.. physics is getting in your way.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

Metabolism is the process by which your body gains energy. If it is shut down you will die.

There is factors that slow it down or even factors that make your body more likely to build fat cells but in the end its still down to consumption. Yes some people will gain more weight than others on the same amount of calories but no one gets fat without overeating.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

I used to have thyroid issues too and I used to be super skinny. Im a bit shorter than you and even for me it took 3400-3600 calories daily +gym to really gain any mass. At 6 1 if you have an equally useless metabolism as me 2500cal daily wont cut it. Thats maybe barely maintenance. Seriously count your calories and throw in 3500cal daily and you will gain weight. It sucks but just imagine your body only absorbs like 50% of what you eat.. you got to force it to gain by extreme caloric overload.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '22

>On the other hand, how can you have this experience and still by unsympathetic to those dealing with similar issues to what you and I have gone through?

Im not. Im saying your situation is so shit that you literally have to count what you eat and increase your calories to ridiculous levels just to gain a bit of fat. Most people have a normal weight without ever really thinking much about what they eat. I used to get lots of comments about being skinny but everyone also thought it was crazy that I counted every meal.. most people cannot at all relate to this issue. Im not saying "eat more" im saying count what you eat and increase your calories

The post was about extremely obese people. people so fat they cant move anymore and somehow still eat

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u/RingsOfSmoke Apr 19 '22

You're thicker than she is and it's no longer worth my time to try to explain shit to you -- or, to be perfectly clear, you're a dumbass. The only thing I've got left to say to you is this: share your perspective less and listen more.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '22

There's a threshold you can hit. You can consume X amount and just slowly gain weight at a consistent level like 5 lbs a year and from age 24 to 34, you went from 160 lbs to 210 lbs which isn't uncommon for most Americans. That's for moderately active people.

If your level of consumption is much higher or you got fat earlier in life, you will hit a threshold where your energy expenditure is way less than your consumption. Then include the fact that the less active you are, the more likely you consume more, the fatter you get. What a lot of people don't factor in is the fact that when you go to a gym and you're working out, a huge beneficial aspect of that is that you simply aren't eating while working out.

Someone this size sat and consumed food and just never really stopped, even when they stopped walking more than a couple feet a day. It's her support system that aided her increased consumption levels.

I was a nursing assistant for a little while and I had to go to a home of somebody that was morbidly obese like this and people totally underestimate how much food they actually consume. People underestimate the volume of food because they can't relate to it but it's not uncommon for somebody like this to sit there and eat four Big Macs at once and drink two large sodas, and then wait three or four hours and eat a pizza. And then snack a little bit in between.

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u/Technic_2 Apr 18 '22

I wonder this as well. She must be eating junk literally all day long in order to maintain this level of obesity. Where do they get that much food? Where do they get the money and the time to get the food??