LOL! I'll never make it.
In the other post I mentioned the fat kid in "Stand By Me" -- Jerry O'Connell. He sure managed to grow out of that.
Odds are, he or she will bypass the fresh produce section, or at most, they'll pick up some onions and potatoes to throw into the pot roast. Green veggies? Nope. Fruit? Well, maybe a couple of lemons for cocktail garnishment, but melons, apples, plums, bananas? Not likely.
They'll stop at the bakery section, of course -- white bread, not whole wheat. And, God knows, at the butcher section. Heavy on the beef and bacon, light on the fish.
Watching them at the dairy case is like watching the Huns sack Rome. Cheese, whole milk, butter (or margarine, just as bad), sour cream. And eggs, of course. Double up on them.
Still, all of the foregoing can be defined as "real food" -- all fine, in moderation, a concept that many find difficult to grasp.
Where the porkers really go wrong is in the soft drink aisle, the chips and snacks aisle, and in the "convenience food" aisle. Rest assured, whether it's packaged, canned or frozen, most products will be full of fat (mostly saturated), sugar, and salt -- because those ingredients are cheap, and, let's face it, tasty (at least to some).
When you go to a restaurant, they give you enough food for 3 meals. I always eat about a third and take the rest home for lunch or dinner for a couple of days.
Wow... according to the BMI I am overweight. I'm 5'10" and 180lb. But I lift weights quite a bit, have a nice build with a fully visible 6 pack. When I do self body fat measurements I'm around 10%. I can guarantee you that almost no one who would see me would every classify me as overweight.
Two Big Macs, a large fry , and a DIET coke....
Wow.....I never knew so many people gave a crap about other people's weight.
Of course they eat healthy.
They just eat way too much of it.
I saw Mike Slobbe
My friend likes Weight Watchers because she has to write down everything she eats. That helps with DENIAL.
I hate, hate, HATE the BMI, and it needs to be reformed or destroyed. I'll preface my commentary by saying that I'm 6'1", 300 lbs. and really do exercise 5 days a week. I run a 12:30 mile, BP is consistently 110/65 and have a resting HR of 72 bpm. I'm not a model of health, but I do my best.
My problem with eating is "cheating" on certain days. I can see a HUGE change in my body when I start piling in sugary cereals, white breads, rice, etc. I feel amazing when I eat a high protein, moderate carb diet. Egg with cheese and veggies for breakfast, almonds for a snack, yogurt and salad with chicken or tuna for lunch and I usually don't eat big "meals" after 6 PM. I'll have a protein shake post-workout, but I still hover around 300.
So many diets and theories and whatnot on the market, it's too much for the regular, avg. American to deal with, and it's a TON easier to hop in and out of the local Wendy's and get $5 worth of food off the value menu and head home than it is to go home, fire up the grill, prepare a 1/4 lb. salmon fillet along with veggies and a small side of rice or whole grain pasta.
The BMI? Crock! At 6'1", 300 lbs, sure I'm overweight. However, I put up almost 300 lbs. on the bench, can squat twice my weight and have a better resting HR than some doctors I know. My body mass is mostly muscle from college weight lifting competition and a refined exercise regimen since I graduated, but the BMI says I'm over 50% fat. I've SEEN people who're 50% fat. I'm NOT one of those people.
To the article, sure, I believe that people claim to eat healthy. I don't have to impress anyone on FR. I know what I eat, and yes, some of my size is my downfall. However, to maintain the size I have, my body has to retain fat. I've done the "supplements" thing already, and I choose to lose my weight the old fashioned way: eat less, exercise more.
I posted on a similar topic several days ago. Many of the studies I see our tax money spent on are silly and easy to ignore. The ones about our growing number of overweight kids, however, ring all too true. Go to a mall and look around. I can't believe how many overweight kids I see. And judging by their dress, they have no problem with it, no shame at all. Muffin tops abound. Fifty-pound-overweight girls wearing skin-tight low-rise jeans and halter tops as if they're proud of their paunches. I don't get it.
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