[quote]MarvelGirl wrote:
eric_lacrosse wrote:
CoreyK wrote:
Side question: are there actually any legit medical conditions that make people fat?
I’ll play devil’s advocate here. I don’t know what sort of legit medical condition could cause the obesity, but I work with a woman who weighs 400 lbs if she weighs an ounce.
She’s a very smart and competent woman, puts in 12-16 hours a day on a regular basis. When I see her eating, sometimes is’s a small container of pasta salad, sometimes it’s a bag of chips, sometimes a panini sandwich. She drinks bottled diet flavored green tea.
I know what she’s doing for most of the day, and can attest to the fact that she cannot be taking in more than a couple thousand calories, I don’t see how she can be so big. She would have to eat non stop from the minute she got home until she came back to work, and yet she says she gets 6-8 hours of sleep a night. Do the math, between work & sleep, that only leaves about a few hours for eating, and I just can’t see her eating non-stop during those few hours.
There has to be some underlying medical condition here. Granted, her diet is not ideal, but she simply does not eat enough to support that kind of body weight. I feel sorry for her because I don’t think she will live many more years.
I had a friend like that. Everyone used to think it was so sad because she ate really healthy and yet continued to be morbidly obese, even though she was quite active.
We were friends for SIX YEARS before I discovered that she would go home every night and drink a case of Sprite and 2 boxes of kraft macaroni and cheese with at least a cup of mayo added to them. Then she’d gorge on bags of hershey’s miniatures and gummi candies. Of course, no one knew this and she would completely deny it even after I walked in on it a couple of times.
I don’t buy the whole hugely fat but doesn’t eat bullshit anymore. The woman you know IS eating to maintain that weight, she’s just sneaky about it.
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I’m sure I’ve said this before but when I was at my fattest I was eating half of what I eat now. I would regularly eat at ~1200ish calories in a day. It was just a garbage diet with too many 60-70 hour weeks at work and too little exercise.