At 9/23/09 02:20 PM, TMM43 wrote:
It's not the point of just "hey, I'm going on a diet and I'll stick to it." It's not that easy. Obese people have a hard time losing weight because of chemical reactions in every person's brain. When a normal person get's full, chemical reactions tell the brain "the stomach is full".
With obese people, those chemical reactions build up a tolerance, just like when you drink a lot of beer. Over time, your body can take more and more with out getting drunk, or in obese people's cases- full.
These receptors, over time, start sending out less of a signal, which causes the brain to think that the body is not full. This, in turn, causes people to eat more and more, thus gaining more weight.
As for the diet. When an obese person goes on a diet, it's usually pretty extreme. More so than the average Joe. An obese person will have a harder time because of the tolerance, as stated above, and because they aren't used to eating healthy.
When it comes down to it, today's society, especially in the US is accustomed to eating many more carbohydrates (carbs) than other countries. Carbs are the energy our body needs to do just about anything, problem is - instead of eating the right amount of carbs and burning them off during the day, we eat way too many.
Because we eat so many carbs, especially obese people, our bodies don't burn off fat but instead add fat and take the necessary carbs it needs for energy. In turn, causing people to gain weight in stead of lose it.
In all, you can't just say obese people complain because they're fat, they complain because it really is a struggle. Sure some might use their weight as a crutch, but others are seriously trying to change, but cannot.
We as people have developed this pallet for fatty foods, jobs where you don't do anything but sit, and incredibly stressful environments.
Before you go on to say you dislike this person or that person, or even saying you 'don't like fat people' take a few minutes and learn a little.
I'm not the type of person to judge someone by first impressions. I learned at a young age that we as a society are too quick to judge someone by the way the look, by the way they dress, or in this case, how fat they are. I try my best not to.
Sorry for the rant. I just felt like sharing a little knowledge with you.
TL;DR - Too fucking bad, learn to read.
hey man, the whole issue of diet is horse shit when it comes right down to it
calories taken in plays a subordinate role to being fat, or obese. the types of food you take in are the absolute most important factor. obesity is just one of the many illnessess plaguing society today
go to any of the remaining tribal cultures. obesity there exists as less than a tenth of a percent. They also never have teeth problems, cancer, diabetes, foot and ankle problems, lower back pain, hemorrhoids, or any number of the modern mans diseases.
I commonly argue we should adopt the raw meat, raw milk, raw fruits veggies and nuts lifestyle of our ancestors to obtain the same apparent immunity to all of modern mans diseases.
This is expensive, and in a society where the meats are produced from factory animals where filth is everywhere, eating meat nowadays in absolutely dangerous, becuase of ecoli.
but think, for millions of years humans lived on raw nuts, meats, veggies, and fruits without any of the dieseases commonly afflicting society.
now that you realize where I'm coming from, if someone who is obese started eating only uncooked fruits and vegitables, he would get very very sick, flu like symptoms, and the fat would quickly drain off of his body at the rate of several pounds a week, up to as much as 7-10.
this is because the fat thats on your body is not just fat, it is fat mixed with all the processed fat soluble chemicals you take in. and that fat is exclusively processed fat.
your body does not want to be fat, this would have lead to death while we still lived the primitive lifestyle. when you start eating what you body knows how to deal with, organic raw fruits, nuts, raw meat and milk, and veggies, again you could eat 6000 calories a day and still lose fat at an alarming rate.
you will also get sick from what is know as the Herxheimer reaction, when your body naturally removes the fat.
anyways I've gone on to long. years of researching random health tidbits have led me to realize just how poisoness the modern diet is, and despite the longevity modern man has through medicine, he is fatigued and diseased from the low quality, mass produced and proccessed foods in todays diet
fat people are not fat because they cant stop eating, they are misinformed, misled through advertising, and trapped in the habits of what everyone else around them is doing.
