Re:No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children
by Noumenon72 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:04PM
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My food log showed that I legitimately ate 3500 calories in a day as a 140-lb individual... but never two days in a row. The second day was always accompanied by unconsciously skipped meals or second helpings, averaging out to 2700 calories per day over time. I didn't even realize I was doing that, I just focused on my habit of finishing an entire bag of Doritos and thought I must be cheating thermodynamics.
Re:No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children
by AznHisoka on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:47PM
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perhaps it feels like they've eaten 3-4k calories a day. in which case it could be their stomach/digestive system can handle only so much food a day. wouldnt overeating lead to bad health for these people?
Re:No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children
by smhost on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:32PM
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It's more that we were eating the same things and I was getting bigger while he stayed thin. We were roommates for a summer, and our diet was virtually identical. Usually an omelette with guacamole and salsa in the morning with maybe a mimosa, 6~12 pack of beer throughout the day, california burrito, hors doeuvres with several shots of liquor at night, for about 3 months.
Re:No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children
by NikolaeVarius on Sunday February 12, 2017 @05:21PM
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Yeah, that's 99% an issue of almost always an issue of snacking or they're actually not eating as much as you think.
Re:No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children
by amag on Sunday February 12, 2017 @06:26PM
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While you may be eating the _same_ things, did you eat the same _amount_ of the things?
In my experience it's very hard to compare the amount of food I eat with how much someone else at the table eats.
Does he keep a detailed food log? I have power lifted and worked out for over a decade now. Every single skinny person who has asked for my help to gain weight has told me exactly what you said above, "I eat 3-4k day and just can't seem to get any bigger." As soon as I put them on a food log we find out that nope, they are barely crossing 2k calories and are like most people who severely under/over estimate how much they eat.