Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying

LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Takes a lot of calories to grow a body

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bodies don’t need to be so overgrown

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember a 6th-grade pizza party where I horked down 10 slices. And I was always one of the smallest guys, last picked for teams, all that. I was fucking amazed at myself.

  Us skinny people, and the people observing us eat, usually got it all wrong. I thought I could eat superhuman amounts of food and stay skinny. Nah. When people watched me go to town, that was the only food I put in my face that day. Not a single calorie otherwise.

  My wife started getting a gut. LOL, she’s barely 3-digits. Mystified! “Uh, babe? You’re snarfing candy all day.”

  I got a hella beer belly a few years ago. Guess what? I had been going around the office, filling my thermos with the coffee leftovers, and chunking 1/4 cup of sugar in there. Took a few months to dial that back. :)

  All that ramble to say, none of us are very good judges of calories in/calories out.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I always hated sugar, and ate 3 large meals a day. Huge breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snacks. Never gained at all.

    That all changed after my pregnancy at 28. Suddenly I seemed to gain weight through osmosis. I mostly lost interest in food, and only started eating sensible quantities twice a day.

    Now I can’t lose weight at all, even with nearly a gallon of water per day and one small cup of food every day or two (to be fair, my body now rejects most food because of an autoimmune disorder), but I can actually gain weight on less than 500 calories a day. It doesn’t make sense by conventional logic, yet here I am. I mostly live on Ensure and Pedialyte, yet I weigh more than I ever have. It’s really weird.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If this is true I think you need to see a doctor

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I see several specialists. No solutions so far, unfortunately.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      500 calories a day

      Are you certain?! That’s concentration camp calories if one isn’t moving, at all. Hell, I’d think your brain alone burns that much. I’m not calling bullshit, I’d really like to understand.

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah. I move very little now, except for very low-impact PT, because of dysautonomia and autoimmune issues. Something radically changed with my system several years ago, though, so I can’t really eat, yet I don’t lose weight. My body doesn’t tolerate most food now, other than small amounts of rice and meat. I can’t process fruits or vegetables at all.

        It’s steadily got worse over the last decade, and yeah, it is slowly killing me, but my doctors haven’t been able to solve it.

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      • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I am calling bullshit. Ain’t no way she’s gaining or even maintaining weight on 500 calories a day. A proper assessment of daily caloric intake is necessary.

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• WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t gain weight, but I just can’t do it. When I was in high school my parents would always order me my own large pizza, and I would eat all of it except one slice, which I would eat cold the following morning.

  Now, I’ll still have the appetite sometimes, and I’ll order a large. If I’m lucky, I’ll eat half, and then I’m so stuffed I feel sick. I suppose that’s a good thing, but there is a certain sense of accomplishment found in dusting a whole pizza yourself.

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