[max47]

Almost everyone I met (incl me when I was younger) who think that way never realized just how much food obese people eat at home. It's wayyy more than you think. They never tell the truth about it out of shame because they know how bad it looks to others.

[Volundr]

Even at my maximum weight I was most definitely not eating like this. The idea that every obese person is just slamming junk food down their gullet is just false and needs to die.

[etothepii]

One extra rich tea biscuit a day (100kcal) is 10lbs in a year. You don't know what you are talking about.

[manmal]

That’s assuming perfect conversion of energy to body fat. That’s never the case due to losses, and everybody is _vastly_ different:

> In response to 84 days of 1000 kcal/day of overfeeding, 12 pairs of monozygotic twins gained on average 8.1 kg, but the range was from 4.3 to 13.3 kg.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897177/

[etothepii]

Your arithmetic does not support the use of the word vastly. It only diverges by mine on the line above by 25%.

[manmal]

> 4.3 to 13.3 kg

That’s not a vast range? It means some people gain more than they „should“, and some less than half of the caloric intake.

It’s also not „my“ arithmetic btw.

[etothepii]

Apologies. Though my statement holds with s/Your/That/.

My original response was to a comment suggesting that overweight and obese people get home and eat 15 chocolate bars. My observation, supported by your additional evidence, is that a small imbalance has a substantial cumulative effect.

[kennywinker]

The study was with 12 pairs of identical twins. Variation of 25% in IDENTICAL TWINS suggests that variation among genetically different individuals is probably going to be much larger.

[gadders]

You can see the videos on tiktok. Each individual meal is actually pretty reasonable, but each one should be the main meal of the day. Having several per day (plus high calorie but healthy snacks such as nuts) is what cause the problem.

[kennywinker]

My guy, i do those things.

edit: parent comment was edited to remove the examples of eating behaviors they believe are the cause of fatness. Their examples were all things that I as a naturally skinny person do or have done regularly.

[P_I_Staker]

It depends what you're talking about. Especially as people age, it doesn't always take as much as you'd think.