kalrith
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Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: kevnich2
The people who are saying that all the fat people just eat too much and don't exercise and don't care really I don't think really have any idea what actually goes into being overweight. Yes, there are a good amount of people that simply eat too much, don't exercise and are overweight. They're the ones that usually take those carts in the big stores and use those, instead of walking around and when they get home they immediately go to the fridge and start eating again because the trip to the store was so much work for them. But there are others (myself included) that can eat as little as possible, drink 8-9 bottles of water and try to exercise when time allots because of very busy schedules who are overweight or obese. If anybody ever told me I'm overweight because I eat too much, look at my intake for the last few weeks. I'll admit, I don't work out 5 days a week and starve myself just to lose weight but there are legitimate reasons to being overweight OTHER than eating too much and not exercising.
Geez, can I park my car in your garage? You can't violate simple thermodynamics. If what you said was really true, you'd put $5 in gas in your car and it'd last a month of daily commutes.
As far as I understand you, you're referring to a change in one's weight being a basic formula of calories taken in minus calories burned. The part you're forgetting is that the body has a built-in mechanism to reduce its calories burned (aka metabolism) in order to protect the body against a famine.
Kevnich2, you might be starving yourself and causing your body to reduce your metabolism to compensate for the "famine". If you eat 6 meals a day and try to make sure your total calories are at least 1600, then that should help to increase your metabolism and weight loss.
Silverpig, if I changed to a 800-calorie-per-day diet tomorrow, I would lose a ton of weight in the first few months. According to your "law of thermodynamics", if I exert the same amount of physical activity and take in the same number of calories, then I should lose the same amount of weight every month forever. The human body just doesn't work that way. My weight loss will taper off as my metabolism slows down, and it will eventually stop. Heck, I might even start to gain weight again.
Edit: If cars worked like the human body, then always keeping your vehicle below 1/4 tank of gas would eventually slow the speed at which it burns gas, and you would wind up getting much better gas mileage.