Size 14, pretty face, 215 pounds. Would you date me?

[Anonymous]

Why are you overweight and what is preventing you from addressing it? Not being a troll. Serious question because it seems you are self conscious about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fat people eat an average of 6700 calories a day. Obese people obviously eat more.

LOL you are talking out your ass. I'm 30 pounds overweight and I eat about 2500 calories a day. Of course, I am a premenopausal woman of 50 so there you go - no metabolism left.

Nope, got it from a New York Times article about obese people and calories. Literally, that's the average, though the article does go on to say that some people have odd metabolisms. Uh, I guess like all the obese women on DCUM who wear size 14.

If you want to lose 30 pounds, you either have to start burning an extra 1000 calories a day, or eat 1000 less calories a day. Stop blaming it on your age.

I'm in my forties, and I don't know any women who eat more than 1200-1500 calories a day, unless they exercise a lot.

That's why you're fat. If you have a problem with my numbers, write a letter to the NY Times.

Please find the article and post the link to it. TIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Fat people eat an average of 6700 calories a day. Obese people obviously eat more.

LOL you are talking out your ass. I'm 30 pounds overweight and I eat about 2500 calories a day. Of course, I am a premenopausal woman of 50 so there you go - no metabolism left.

Nope, got it from a New York Times article about obese people and calories. Literally, that's the average, though the article does go on to say that some people have odd metabolisms. Uh, I guess like all the obese women on DCUM who wear size 14.

If you want to lose 30 pounds, you either have to start burning an extra 1000 calories a day, or eat 1000 less calories a day. Stop blaming it on your age.

I'm in my forties, and I don't know any women who eat more than 1200-1500 calories a day, unless they exercise a lot.

That's why you're fat. If you have a problem with my numbers, write a letter to the NY Times.

Please find the article and post the link to it. TIA.

And btw, as someone who ate an average of 1250 calories/day for 1.5 years to lose a huge amount of weight, I know exactly what it takes to eat that few calories consistently and not be hungry or undernourished. Eating that few calories daily requires you to very carefully plan your food and monitor your intake to ensure you're getting sufficient protein, fiber, fats, vitamins and other essential nutrients. So either all the women you know are very well informed regarding nutrition and are carefully monitoring their intake, or they are regularly hungry and undernourished.

Or - most likely - you really don't know how many calories they eat. You certainly don't know how many calories "most" overweight and obese people eat. Seriously, find that link to the NYT article and show it to us. It either doesn't exist, or you're misremembering the content of it, because a piece in the NYT stating the average calorie consumption you describe for overweight/obese people would have gotten a LOT of comments and letters calling bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fat people eat an average of 6700 calories a day. Obese people obviously eat more.

LOL you are talking out your ass. I'm 30 pounds overweight and I eat about 2500 calories a day. Of course, I am a premenopausal woman of 50 so there you go - no metabolism left.

Nope, got it from a New York Times article about obese people and calories. Literally, that's the average, though the article does go on to say that some people have odd metabolisms. Uh, I guess like all the obese women on DCUM who wear size 14.

If you want to lose 30 pounds, you either have to start burning an extra 1000 calories a day, or eat 1000 less calories a day. Stop blaming it on your age.

I'm in my forties, and I don't know any women who eat more than 1200-1500 calories a day, unless they exercise a lot.

That's why you're fat. If you have a problem with my numbers, write a letter to the NY Times.

Please find the article and post the link to it. TIA.

And btw, as someone who ate an average of 1250 calories/day for 1.5 years to lose a huge amount of weight, I know exactly what it takes to eat that few calories consistently and not be hungry or undernourished. Eating that few calories daily requires you to very carefully plan your food and monitor your intake to ensure you're getting sufficient protein, fiber, fats, vitamins and other essential nutrients. So either all the women you know are very well informed regarding nutrition and are carefully monitoring their intake, or they are regularly hungry and undernourished.

Or - most likely - you really don't know how many calories they eat. You certainly don't know how many calories "most" overweight and obese people eat. Seriously, find that link to the NYT article and show it to us. It either doesn't exist, or you're misremembering the content of it, because a piece in the NYT stating the average calorie consumption you describe for overweight/obese people would have gotten a LOT of comments and letters calling bullshit.

I'm not the PP who cited the New York Times, but good grief, is your Google machine broken? I found the article in under one minute:

In the 30-plus years that Richard Atkinson has been studying obesity, he has always maintained that overeating doesn’t really explain it all. His epiphany came early in his career, when he was a medical fellow at U.C.L.A. engaged in a study of people who weighed more than 300 pounds and had come in for obesity surgery. “The general thought at the time was that fat people ate too much,” Atkinson, now at Virginia Commonwealth University, told me recently. “And we documented that fat people do eat too much — our subjects ate an average of 6,700 calories a day. But what was so impressive to me was the fact that not all fat people eat too much.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/magazine/13obesity.html?pagewanted=all

[Anonymous]

Would not date you, but not because of fat, rather how you live your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fat people eat an average of 6700 calories a day. Obese people obviously eat more.

LOL you are talking out your ass. I'm 30 pounds overweight and I eat about 2500 calories a day. Of course, I am a premenopausal woman of 50 so there you go - no metabolism left.

Nope, got it from a New York Times article about obese people and calories. Literally, that's the average, though the article does go on to say that some people have odd metabolisms. Uh, I guess like all the obese women on DCUM who wear size 14.

If you want to lose 30 pounds, you either have to start burning an extra 1000 calories a day, or eat 1000 less calories a day. Stop blaming it on your age.

I'm in my forties, and I don't know any women who eat more than 1200-1500 calories a day, unless they exercise a lot.

That's why you're fat. If you have a problem with my numbers, write a letter to the NY Times.

Please find the article and post the link to it. TIA.

And btw, as someone who ate an average of 1250 calories/day for 1.5 years to lose a huge amount of weight, I know exactly what it takes to eat that few calories consistently and not be hungry or undernourished. Eating that few calories daily requires you to very carefully plan your food and monitor your intake to ensure you're getting sufficient protein, fiber, fats, vitamins and other essential nutrients. So either all the women you know are very well informed regarding nutrition and are carefully monitoring their intake, or they are regularly hungry and undernourished.

Or - most likely - you really don't know how many calories they eat. You certainly don't know how many calories "most" overweight and obese people eat. Seriously, find that link to the NYT article and show it to us. It either doesn't exist, or you're misremembering the content of it, because a piece in the NYT stating the average calorie consumption you describe for overweight/obese people would have gotten a LOT of comments and letters calling bullshit.

I'm not the PP who cited the New York Times, but good grief, is your Google machine broken? I found the article in under one minute:

In the 30-plus years that Richard Atkinson has been studying obesity, he has always maintained that overeating doesn’t really explain it all. His epiphany came early in his career, when he was a medical fellow at U.C.L.A. engaged in a study of people who weighed more than 300 pounds and had come in for obesity surgery. “The general thought at the time was that fat people ate too much,” Atkinson, now at Virginia Commonwealth University, told me recently. “And we documented that fat people do eat too much — our subjects ate an average of 6,700 calories a day. But what was so impressive to me was the fact that not all fat people eat too much.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/magazine/13obesity.html?pagewanted=all

I was asking the 6700/10000 calorie poster to provide the source for his numbers. If this is the NYT article he was citing for them, he clearly misremembered the content or purposely chose to misportray it. The paragraph you quoted is the only place where the 6700 calories number is mentioned, and it clearly indicates that this was the average consumption for people who weighed more than 300 lbs in this particular study. That's not the average overweight person (defined as < 30 lbs overweight), nor the average obese person (30-60 lbs overweight), nor even most morbidly obese people (defined as 60 or more lbs overweight). People who weigh 300 lbs or more are on the extreme end of morbid obesity, 100 lbs or considerably more over a normal weight. So PPs claim that "fat people" eat an average of 6700 calories/day, and obese people closer to 10,000 calories/day is clearly not at all supported by this article.

Thanks for posting the link so we could clear that up.

[Anonymous]

Fat OP here- I think I probably ate 3000-5000 calories a day to get this big when I was bingeing. I know a lot of overweight people say they don't over eat but it's not true. I didn't get this big eating salad. On the positive side, now I'm back at Weight Watchers and I'm really loving doing my couch to 5k!!! I never thought I could run and it makes it easy mixing it with walking.

[Anonymous]

Good for you, OP! Good luck.

[Anonymous]

The wider the waistband, the deeper the quicksand!