I am not a mega fat, but I sometimes eat fast food too much. I managed to stop again so my weight will go back down quickly. I know it's a lame but sometimes I will get agitated and while driving it's easy to redirect that focus on your hunger and then satiate it with food, and driving means fast food I drive alot for work. Any ways I already put on a lot of weight so it'll be about 6 months to go back to a healthy weight. It's hard because food is a drug, you consume it and the chemicals in your body release endorphins to reward you and train your neurons for finding food. But it's so easy to throw that out of whack as a human when you have basically unlimited access to food in the world. Even African children are 70 quadrillion times less likely to starve to death compared to some shitty non humanoid animal. It's difficult in some ways because unlike quitting other habits like smoking, or some other behavior, you can't just stop eating completely; to remove yourself from the element of it entirely. Like you would rather get rid of all niggers who live around you, not just let a few in selectively. I have fluctuations in weigh from my behavior swings frequently, and I was taught how to eat well.
I was a very normal weight until highschool where I started gaining weight until senior year where I think I was 5'11 and 235 lbs. Then I was 250 and 6ft when I was 21 and then I brought it back down to 200 until about six months ago and now I have put on like 40 pounds. I know I can lose it quickly again but I don't know why I keep pulling myself into this pattern. Maybe this time I can stop. I like to browse this sub and appreciate the fitness forums shitting on fatties. I fucking hate this stupid nonsense about being healthy when you weigh 500lbs and sleep with a CPAP and have diabetus. There is a fucking diabetes supply shop in my town, in fact a few I shit you not. There's enough fats here for there to be fucking specialty diabetes shops. And it's gross.
Sometimes, I go to Walmart to buy something for cheap. I know I shouldn't but I do it anyways because you can only live for so long and I already wasted enough time writing this post, so I don't worry it. The people I see there are fucking fats like I could walk through there with a camera and have enough content for this whole sub to last month and it's really gross. And yeah it fat city. I will be ready for the next season of summer.
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[–] thin_privilege 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah that's probably right, the contents don't have sugar in them but they add sugar since people want sweet food.
Sugar is not addictive though. People do like sugar, just like most mammals like sugar, since it provides energy. Something we needed a long time ago running from mammoths and huge tigers. Alcohol addiction is completely different and I don't get why people always compare eating too goddamn much with substance addiction.
[–] PleaseDontEatMe ago
Sugar is actually a drug, for all intents and purposes. It has no nutritional value, and really is just empty calories. The body doesn't need it for energy as we can function perfectly well (even better as well), on a diet rich with good fats. (On an interesting note, cancer cells need sugar to survive, and cannot metabolise fats like healthy cells in our body can). Lastly, it has an effect on the body, think 'sugar high' or 'sugar rush'. Sugar is more addictive than cocaine - a study done with rats showed that when given the choice, even if rats are addicted to cocaine, they will still choose sugar over cocaine. That is why sugar is compared to 'substance addiction', because it most definitely is a substance that uses the same pathways as substances that people are known to become addicted to, that is, the dopamine pathways (or in other words the body's internal reward system). As to whether it has a physiological factor, and not just a psychological factor when it comes to addiction, I'm not sure on that one. But sugar addiction is most definitely a real thing, and it's why it is used in so many foods to get people hooked and coming back for more ^.^ Hope that explains a bit about the addicting part of sugar. If you're interested, you should look into it yourself. Plenty of good reading out there, just be aware of the sources! :D