Re:5BX
by starkfist on Sunday June 20, 2010 @11:22PM
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You need to eat less if you are fat and need to lose weight.
If you aren't overweight, you don't need to eat less. Even if you are skinny you still need to exercise if you want to be "in shape."
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Re:5BX
by marknutter on Sunday June 20, 2010 @11:57PM
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Yes, thanks for pointing this out. I'm an ex-skinny guy who got in shape by being consistent, and my challenge was always trying to put on weight, not burn it off. I will preface my original comment by saying "provided you are on a healthy diet."
Re:5BX
by randallsquared on Sunday June 20, 2010 @11:36PM
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Sure, but someone who is skinny and wants to get in shape is 98% of the way there already -- they won't actually have any difficulty. Losing fat is the hard part of getting in shape, and not coincidentally, is needful for the vast majority of Americans.
Re:5BX
by marknutter on Monday June 21, 2010 @10:22AM
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You don't understand how hard it is to gain weight when you're perpetually skinny. Nobody wants to be really skinny, just like nobody wants to be really fat. What we're all aiming for is that Men's Health magazine look where we have a muscled physique and very little fat. I actually think it's easier to get there from being fat than from being skinny, and don't think that just because us skinny guys get to eat whatever we want it makes it more enjoyable. When your trying to gain weight, eating becomes a chore and it gets expensive.
Re:5BX
by randallsquared on Monday June 21, 2010 @01:55PM
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You don't understand how hard it is to gain weight when you're perpetually skinny.
You're quite right, I don't understand how that could be hard. :)
When your trying to gain weight, eating becomes a chore and it gets expensive.
I can understand the "gets expensive" part. Also, I guess if you're not actually eating things you want to eat, I could understand the "chore" part, since there's only so much health food I'd want to eat in a day. If you were really just trying to gain weight, though, you could just eat those things that you can never get enough of (whatever they are for you), and easily pack away six or eight thousand calories a day, right? You'd have to do hard labor all day, like a farmer, to burn that much off.