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I've always assumed two people eating the same amount of food and one gets fat and the other doesnt is due to the length of their intestines,with an average of 25ft perhaps the thinner person has only 22ft of intestine while the person prone to obesity may have 27ft of intestine so they tend to absorb more food that the person with the lesser length of intestine.
My personal theory though is that if you were to keep on with this experiment, the weight gain would continue and speed up and your body would adjust to the gain and to the calories and if you decided then at some point to stop, you'd have a much harder time taking off the weight.
As the experiment went on, the weight gain got less and less each week. It started off as 5lbs in the first week, then 3 the next, and so on. Studies like this BBC Horizon study showed in some cases people's metabolism speeds up when they over eat and their weight can plateau at a certain level and not increase any more, until they increase calories even more. An even more dangerous study, the Vermont Prison Study, found that some people could eat as much as 10,000 calories a day and not gain more than 25% of their weight. If I had continued my experiment I couldn't possibly speculate what would happen, but I would not be surprised if my weight would plateau at some point and not rise indefinitely. In the long term however my metabolism will probably slow and I would keep gaining weight in all likelihood, and god knows how unhealthy it would be.
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Originally Posted by stepka
Anyway, your little experiment was probably fun, kind of, but don't do that again! Poor food choices can be addictive.
Interestingly, my diet during the experiment was exactly the same as my usual diet. The only difference was the number of calories. I ate exactly the same foods as I always do but in near double quantities. I am still eating the same things now (but losing weight) because I am eating what I feel like and not forcing in 4000 cals a day.
I've always assumed two people eating the same amount of food and one gets fat and the other doesnt is due to the length of their intestines,with an average of 25ft perhaps the thinner person has only 22ft of intestine while the person prone to obesity may have 27ft of intestine so they tend to absorb more food that the person with the lesser length of intestine.
This simply isn't remotely true. If it was one could find out by studying the contents of their feces. The thin person would have more undigested food which should have been digested present in their feces present if this were true, and it isn't, so they don't.
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Originally Posted by markymarc
No, no one needs to eat 5,000 calories a day just to prove a point. However, if you can't eat upwards of 2,000 calories a day and maintain a slim waistline/physique, you definitely don't know what you're doing.
It requires 2800-3000 a day for me to maintain my weight of 140lbs or so, which is very slim for my height and even on 4000kcal a day I still stayed slim despite the weight gain, my waist didn't increase much, but my chest did, for example. Even 16lbs heavier my pants still fit perfectly and my belt was on the same hole. No tighter. My BMI never exceeded 19. Not that it means anything though. I just have a slim build.
Because they set their ideal self-image before they could start gaining weight.
They had observed fat people and didn't like what they saw.
"Not me", they said and they set the image they desired into the subconscious mind. Set it and forget it, never had to think about it again. Automatic appetite control, automatic speeding up of metabolism whenever they did overeat.
Fat people never had an ideal self image.
Seeing fat people had no impact on them.
They indulged in overeating and just bought bigger clothes.
They still had no idea of what they looked like to others.
They just kept on eating the same old stuff.
Here is something all you overweight people need to take serious heed of....
MSG.
MSG is addicting. It is a neurotoxin. It makes stuff taste good and you keep wanting more.
Do a search for "MSG and obesity".
Educate yourself; get thin and stay thin.
Have you done a search for youtube videos on weight loss?
Try it, you might find something helpful.
Here is something all you overweight people need to take serious heed of....
MSG.
MSG is addicting. It is a neurotoxin. It makes stuff taste good and you keep wanting more.
Do a search for "MSG and obesity".
Educate yourself; get thin and stay thin.
Have you done a search for youtube videos on weight loss?
Try it, you might find something helpful.
Hmm I've heard something like that but I think there might be more to it b/c I avoid MSG and I am not thin. I think the main danger is that it makes cardboard taste good.
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