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[–] DorothyMantooth 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

There was an excellent British TV show called "Secret Eaters" that demonstrated this perfectly: all these obeasts and fatties claiming they ate "only about 1300 calories a day, mostly salads," but when the secret cameras were on them they found most of them were eating closer to 4000.

Episodes are on YouTube. I used to watch it with my girls, to prove to them that "But I barely eat and I'm still fat" was and is a total LIE. Now anytime they hear someone claim that they look at me and smile knowingly, like, "yeah, sure, only salads and a plain chicken breast for dinner, uh-huh, I totally believe you."

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[–] jeffjeff [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

It's hilarious isn't it. Especially when they show the planets what they eat in one week, tables full of cakes and beige deep fried beetus. I think the best one I saw was when one 'contestant' claimed to eat 800 calories on a 'cheat day' but usually much less. The genuine calculations were well into the thousands.

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[–] DorothyMantooth 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It was one of my favorite shows! That table just groaning with all that nasty food, and the stunned looks on their faces when they get caught lying like rugs about what they really ate vs. what they wrote in their food diaries. "This week, you ate the sugar equivalent of seven hundred donuts."

I start giggling as soon as they start with their "It must be something genetic because I only eat salads and maybe a bite of fruit, and I exercise allll the time," and I laugh harder and harder as we watch them waddle out of Starbeetus with enormous plastic tubs of whipped cream, watch them scarf down an entire huge 1kg Cadbury bar at their desk before lunch, watch them bake a huge potato and then slather it with an entire can of beans, coleslaw, 300g of cheese, and light sour cream (because, you know, they're healthy) so it looks like vomit on a plate and then slurp all that down for lunch...oh, good times. Or their "salads" that are basically lettuce drowned in salad cream with a bunch of cheese thrown on for good measure. Then it's more chocolate, some crisps as an afternoon snack because "{They've] been good today," and off to the gym--sometimes--for ten minutes of lumbering on a treadmill. Then an enormous dinner with like a serving bowl full of cheese-and-goop-covered pasta, six Mrs. Kiplings or an entire Tesco cheesecake or some profiteroles or all of the above, and a whole bottle of wine... And then the host asks, "How many calories do you think you had today?" and the answer is always, "Oh, about 1200." Lol.

I especially love the little bell that rings with every drink/serving/bite. Like the guy who ate something like twenty roast potatoes at a Sunday carvery in addition to all the other crap he ate. I think his daily average was some astronomical amount like 5600.

I don't remember the 800 calorie cheat day person, I need to find that one! There's a bunch of them on YouTube. I've started rewatching them lately, because that shit never gets old. I wonder if we should post a link for one? They're excellent shitlord entertainment.