How is almost everyone over 25 obese?

[eod8989]

6'1 207 lbs checking in

I'm not lean by any means but still in decent shape but how is it that almost every person I see now days is legit obese?

It was never like this before you can look back at old photos people have always been skinny until the 90s

[JayJ350]

Our garbage self-indulgent culture of being a self-obsessed sack of chit.

[GordonXXX]

the relatively new notion that meals should be easy, cheap and fast - AND OFTEN AND PLENTIFUL AND EVERYWHERE. i'm telling you, i'm a Gen-Xer and we didn't go to Starbucks, McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, Jamba Juice, etc. back in the 70s and 80s and even early 90s every damn day like people do today. in fact, many of these people go multiple times a day. think about how many calories they are drinking with these iced mocha cream caramel coffee drinks and fruit freeze drinks and peanut butter smoothies - and then add in the treats, snacks, and meals. for us back then it was a special treat and a rare occurrence to order out. i think things started to change in the mid to late 90s. look at the advertising on TV today pushing all of this constant high calorie consumption! and a lot (or nearly as many) of these places existed or had this many high calorie options back then. they are on every corner and people are lapping up all of this garbage. there's your answer. and huge portions and huge calories for everything.

p.s. OP - you need to get down to 185 you fat bastard.

[insidemane]

Tfw 14% bodyfat and people think I'm lean AF, fukin lol

Still have visible abs but I'm definitely not lean

[BLOATMOGGER]

6'1" 207 lbs is an overweight BMI

[JerG]

People eating too many grains (especially wheat)



Combined with eating out of pleasure and self-soothing rather than for health and energy

[eod8989]

the relatively new notion that meals should be easy, cheap and fast - AND OFTEN AND PLENTIFUL AND EVERYWHERE. i'm telling you, i'm a Gen-Xer and we didn't go to Starbucks, McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, Jamba Juice, etc. back in the 70s and 80s and even early 90s every damn day like people do today. in fact, many of these people go multiple times a day. think about how many calories they are drinking with these iced mocha cream caramel coffee drinks and fruit freeze drinks and peanut butter smoothies - and then add in the treats, snacks, and meals. for us back then it was a special treat and a rare occurrence to order out. i think things started to change in the mid to late 90s. look at the advertising on TV today pushing all of this constant high calorie consumption! and a lot (or nearly as many) of these places existed or had this many high calorie options back then. they are on every corner and people are lapping up all of this garbage. there's your answer. and huge portions and huge calories for everything.

p.s. OP - you need to get down to 185 you fat bastard.

Yeah I'm about to

Then not going above 199 lbs ever again

I'm like 180 in my avi

[Kiop]

trans fat and sugar
are part of the tranny problems.

[friesbruh]

Fat acceptance.

Social media.

[insidemane]

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p.s. OP - you need to get down to 185 you fat bastard.

lol at twink advice

I'm couple inches shorter than OP and I've been 192lbs with abs. He just needs more muscle mass

[Ironface]

Didn’t you used to brag about weighing 230lbs?

[Briisk]

If you’re truly busy and involved in things all day, you shouldn’t be eating or even thinking about food.

Everything is too easy now - transpiration gets your food here quick. Then you get fast food, drive throughs, food delivery services, etc that force food into you.

[HYDRAE]

too much time watching HBO max I reckon

[blissful88]

People eating too many grains (especially wheat)

Do people actually still believe this

[AncientYouth]

Do people actually still believe this

lol true

[Ironface]

lol true

It’s true though. Eating too many grains will make you fat.

Just like eating too much meat, dairy, and anything with calories in it will

[AncientYouth]

fatties gonna fat

in the USA and increasingly in the UK and the Western World ...obesity is becoming normalised and fully acceptable as a way to be ,,they are even trying to convince people is attractive (well women anyway)

fat acceptance, big is beautiful, healthy any at any size all this BS combined with inherent laziness and mental weakness


it reached peak clown when Tess Holliday claimed to be anorexic!

[Destor]

A big part of this would be tied to the nature of adding weight and how our bodies have a much easier time holding onto new mass once it has been added and will only very reluctantly let go of it

Make that a function of time and living for 70+ years, all you need to do is add 1lb per year and you'll balloon hard af by the time your mid 30s roll around. And each year you live is another risk of adding more weight that will be almost impossible to lose permanently, so being skinny becomes more and more remarkable as you age

[Kev1972]

Because fast food and singles bars.

[JerG]

Do people actually still believe this

When analyzing the diets of obese people - are they consuming an excessive amount of grains? Or are they consuming little to none at all? Especially when taking into account their activity levels.

I understand that calories in vs. calories out is what matters.

What I am saying is, if we removed the massive amount of grain consumption from obese people, weights / percentages of obese people could drop pretty dramatically.

[rootcon]

Loss of certain gut bacteria.

Akkermansia muciniphila
-maintains gut lining https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.co...pplement.421.2
-killed off by high salt https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-018-0201-3
-fake sugars kill this and leads to non alcoholic fatty liver disease https://msystems.asm.org/content/6/1/e00985-20 something like 25% of people have non alcoholic fatty liver disease, 30-40% of men!!! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7257251/

Bifidobacterium
bifidobacterium longum and rhamnosus cause thermogenesis https://www.ingentaconnect.com/conte...00004/art00006
triggers gut IgA release, but not because of inflammatory reaction, this species seems to have co evolved with us https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...08874902005798
2020 rat studies show significant weight loss and improvement of lipid profile https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31987886/
Bifidobacterium longum counters the effects of obesity https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...52396420305521
Helps with cancer as is removes a checkpoint that might be holding up cell apoptosis (pd-1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00831-6
bifidobacterium are dominant and symbiotic inhabitants of the mammalian gastrointestinal tract. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33777340/
Bifidobacterium pseudolongum was present in 81% (99 of 122 samples) of all Bifidobacterium-positive fecal samples in a study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16629032/

Lactobacillus gasseri in the Upper Small Intestine Impacts an ACSL3-Dependent Fatty Acid-Sensing Pathway Regulating Whole-Body Glucose Homeostasis https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...50413118300652 high fat diet decreases...

and more I'm sure, that's as far as I've gotten

[eod8989]

fatties gonna fat

in the USA and increasingly in the UK and the Western World ...obesity is becoming normalised and fully acceptable as a way to be ,,they are even trying to convince people is attractive (well women anyway)

fat acceptance, big is beautiful, healthy any at any size all this BS combined with inherent laziness and mental weakness


it reached peak clown when Tess Holliday claimed to be anorexic!

How is it happening though?

I used to be a fifth a day drinker and ate pizza and mctits daily and never gained weight

I have to actively try to gain weight it's impossible if I just eat when I'm hungry

[Ironface]

What I am saying is, if we removed the massive amount of grain consumption from obese people, weights / percentages of obese people could drop pretty dramatically.

They would just eat more of the other stuff

[blissful88]

When analyzing the diets of obese people - are they consuming an excessive amount of grains? Or are they consuming little to none at all? Especially when taking into account their activity levels.

I understand that calories in vs. calories out is what matters.

What I am saying is, if we removed the massive amount of grain consumption from obese people, weights / percentages of obese people could drop pretty dramatically.

You should know that reducing fat is the easiest way to cut weight down since it requires the most effort to metabolize & therefore contains more calories per gram

[AncientYouth]

How is it happening though?

I used to be a fifth a day drinker and ate pizza and mctits daily and never gained weight

I have to actively try to gain weight it's impossible if I just eat when I'm hungry

its not about you though is it? its the other 350 million people 70%+ of whom are overweight or obese

[GordonXXX]

[RedRusty]

Actually my older friends are usually in better shape/health than the younger ones. More aware of their mortality?

[gbullock32]

Tfw 14% bodyfat and people think I'm lean AF, fukin lol

Still have visible abs but I'm definitely not lean

Feels, still sitting at manlet status 5'5" and 170ish right now. People think I am lean and pretty fit, not really though, just when compared to them.

[DrumsNotDead]

People have access to a lot of fast food and order services now so there is nothing to stop them from constantly shoveling **** into their gullets. Most people work a lot (not necessarily hard, but often) and then are lazy when they get home and have other things in life to tend to. IMO this is why everyone should own a home gym, there is simply no excuse for not working out when the weights are in your garage and you don't even have to leave the house. Consistency isn't easy to build and most fail at it. That's why people stop going to the gym after a month or so and stop on diets after a couple weeks. It's not that they are dumb, they just don't know how to properly self motivate and instead convince themselves that it's ok to be a lazy slob and then a few slobs get together and start trying to convince themselves that everyone else is against them when in reality we just don't want them to die.

[frutistafreeze]

There is currently a thread about DiGiorno making cheese filled pizza donuts for breakfast. That's a prime example