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        If you had ever been fat and then lost a lot of weight, you would know that the physical feeling is night and day different. The feeling of being fat is exhausting, your joints hurt, you’re tired all the time, it’s truly awful. You’d wonder how you could stand being fat. At least that’s how it felt for me.

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          You are cold all the fucking time though. I mean, it sucked to be hot and sweaty all the time too, I guess. But I used to only be uncomfortable and hot for 3 months during summer, and now I’m uncomfortable and cold for 9 months.

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            Even if you wear warmer clothes, you’re cold?

            I have this issue occasionally but it’s not bad on my end. I’m usually the one comfortable while heavier people around me complain they are “hot” all the time. They’ll be hot in 70 degree F weather, whereas to me that’s paradise

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              I went from 160 at the start of the pandemic to 115 now, and I’m freezing all the time. I double up on socks and a long sleeve undershirt lol. Summer was great when we got into the 90s and it wasn’t too windy, I could enjoy the clothes I can fit in now!

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            Can confirm, it sucks ass being hot all the time. It’s still triple digits temps outside in fucking fall, and my ass is a space heater. It’s hot everywhere, all the time. Only when it’s like the low 70s that I’m comfortable. If I do any movement though, I’m sweaty again. It has to hit 40s for me to not be immediately hot with activity, and by that time it’s too damn cold.

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      If we are arguing that way then you don’t need to be skinny to be healthy. There is a middle ground between skinny and overweight.

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    11 months ago

    get regular exercise and be both. Literally like 40% of my motivation for staying active is that it lets me eat more.

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      you cannot exercise your way out of a bad diet is the general advise. a snickers bar is 73 calories and to burn 100 calories you have to run a 10 minute mile.

      you simply can accumulate calories at a way faster rate than you can reasonably exercise.

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        That’s a good point but it’s also important to note that a Snickers bar has much less nutritional value than the cheeseburger shown in the original image. So if you’re training for a marathon or something, you can totally get away with a cheeseburger every night, but not the equivalent amount of snickers (you will feel like absolute shite)

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        i think that’s technically true but reductive, you will continue to burn calories at a higher rate for quite a while after any reasonably strenous exercise and as you get stronger it becomes easier to burn more calories, thus letting you increase your daily calorie budget.

        I’m not saying that five minutes of cardio will suddenly let you eat 5 cakes, but have you seen the diets that weightlifters keep? with a lot of muscle and frequent heavy exercise you can burn such an amount of calories every day that eating 3 pizzas is a good starter course.

        Also we aren’t talking about a bad diet, just eating a bit too much. Of course exercise isn’t going to fix you eating snickers instead of vegetables but it will absolutely fix eating one too many burgers.

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    Or maybe just stop overeating? It’s way less about what you eat than it is about how much you eat.

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      no it’s very much about what you eat, if you put a bunch of greens in your food you’ll feel satisfied much faster and for longer.

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      No! You have to count every calorie meticulously, swap every meal for boring salad and run ten miles every day!

      I’m way too busy to do any of that, I get chronic hunger pains before bed and I’m also a super taster which means anything but KFC, donuts and coca cola is super unpalatable to me!

      How dare you insinuate that I’m obese because I can’t just eat a little less, you don’t know my body, my will power is actually amazing except when it comes to putting down the fork! Eating a bit less is extremely hard you fucking fat hater!

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        ypur comment does read like something from /r/fatpeoplehate

        I would encourage you to be more empathetic towards people strugglong with weight issues, or at least be less of a dick about it, that doesn’t help amyone

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          I don’t hate fat people. I hate excuses and I hate greed. People who are overweight are typically masters of excuses, it’s very rarely their own fault.

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    Switch to things with more protein, it keeps you sated with fewer calories. Count calories, not too torture yourself, but to train yourself to make better choices. Do a few simple strength exercises every day, to build muscle and to stay motivated.

    Source: down ~20kg from top weight

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        lol except studies are more and more showing that red meat is actually not particularly good for you, and steaks are quite possibly the least ethical thing to eat.

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          Depends which studies you look at. There’s studies to support vegetarian diet is the healthiest, same for omnivore and same for carnivore. Even MDs can’t come to an agreement.

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          Only if you accept a premise of animal life mattering and/or sacrificing enjoyment for the climate

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    I lost 35lbs eating burgers and pizza. These things aren’t mutually exclusive. The fact that people think they are is a testament to how poor health education is.

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    In Las Vegas, we have a local chain called SkinnyFats that has two menus, a “healthy” menu and a “happy” menu

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    Name one ingredient in that burger that is unhealthy. Bread? Meat? Cheese? Greens? Half a teaspoon of ketchup? Just check your caloric intake and eat whatever the heck you want.

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      That amount of downvotes you’re getting because fat people hate hearing that “yes, you could just eat a bit less!”

      Your bodyweight is 100% correlated to the amount of calories you consume/burn. Eat less calories than your base metabolic rate and you could lose weight on a diet of pizza and just sitting on the sofa all day!

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      Bread - processed crap with minimal micronutrients, preservatives and coloring agent (for nice white flour /s)

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      There doesn’t really exist an “healthy” or “unhealthy” food, it’s just about your eating habits…