/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The main problem is the food is too rich. I eat big portions, but it's low fat so I can eat comparatively more.

>>14067664
>When feeding someone we have this manner of 'dont let anyone go home hungry'
>It's literally good manners to feed your guests well
This is the norm everywhere, and for obvious reasons. Doesn't excuse you fat fucking disgusting American pigs

>>14067672
by feeding someone well it means feeding them double. Nowadays double servings is normal for one person so feeding a guest well means giving them enough food for 4 people

>>14067672
in australia doggy bags are illegal

>>14067693
That is a complete lie.

>>14067664
As long as there is a free market and the average consumer is looking for a bargain portion size will keep going up. There used to be a magazine called "the good old days" my grandmother had a subscription, there was a reprinted article from the early 1800's from a person who traveled to America and was appalled at the size of the portions in US restaurants.

Portion size evolved to what it is today because of multiple reasons, in ye olde days a hard working cowboy wanted a hardy meal for not much money and restaurant owners wanting their business found ways to make that happen.

It's the same today when joe bloe goes out with his family he looks at his wallet and at the menu and will always choose the bigger meal for the lower price because "muh bargain". that's why we have grotesque gulps of 1/2 gallons of soda at convenience stores with $.50 refills. because jane hoe and joe bloe will go there for their HFCS fix and hey look at those over priced family sized bag of chips that's half air WHATABARGAIN!

Fast food have dollar meals to get you to buy when them make out like bandits on soda. soda cost pennies to make has highly inflated prices for what you are getting and it's 99% profit.

mommy mommy give me the superthighed drink ilikesugar! ok honeybunchesofoats here's your tendies and apple slices also. apple slices! more sugar and calories then fries and not any better for you.

The average meal at a restaurant in the US is enough food for 2 people. unless you got to claim jumpers which can be enough for 4 or 5.

>>14067670
what do you eat?

>>14068548
>muh cowboy
USA didn't invent hardworking people, and it's not people working the fields and herding cows that went to restaurants to begin with.
It's just a matter of an absence of culture and tradition in the US that led to a lack of respect toward food and healthy eating habits.

>>14068548
>jane hoe and joe bloe
not disagreeing you with you but this sounds so douchey

>>14067664
I feel like this image is disinformation, as there's no way in fuck that's a half-pound patty. I cooked the things for 8 goddamned years. Instead of using a dinner plate they've probably used a banquet plate, but yes that's too goddamned many fries and too much ketchup. Why the hell you're taking away my ketchup is beyond me.

>>14068586
Pickles damnit, why are you taking away pickles. Like any good cook, I am sauced while off the line.

>>14068579
>USA didn't invent hardworking people
But the hardest working people moved to the US while the shiftless commies stayed in Europe for the gibs and also cowardice.

>>14068579
>USA didn't invent hardworking people,
nobody said they did, you seem tense.
>a lack of respect toward food and healthy eating habits.
what utter nonsense.

>>14068585
you're young you will get over it.

>>14067664
And? Why the fuck would you care?

>>14068586
>Why the hell you're taking away my ketchup is beyond me.
Probably because it's pure sugar.

>>14067664
>we
What's this we business, fatty? I've been at a healthy weight all my life. Don't blame your size on restaurants, lmao.

Why is /fit/ on /ck/ in the first place? Fuck off.

>>14067664
God bless anon, we should have servings reduced while paying the same price.

>>14068618
>nobody said americans were the first hardworking people
Anon was pointing out that has nothing to do with meal size since there are hard working people all over that dont offer that food portions

>>14068666

It's literally pure tomato you idiot

>>14069022
Ok fatty

>>14067664
>food is served with enough for two people with the assumption that you'll eat half, take the rest home so you have something to eat later

I literally never heard of that a single day in my life.

>>14068579
Just curious... Where do you think culture and tradition come from?

>>14069022
Blend up a tomato and dip something in it, tell me how that works out for you numbnuts

>>14068688
OP is not talking to you, he is talking to the statistic.

Lots of adults are fucking children with no self control. You have to treat children like children. You have to make it a law for people to put a seatbelt on, otherwise we will have more deaths and more people gumming up the healthcare system.

If children are given too much to eat, they develop bad habits. If you take away their food, good habits will begin to develop.

>>14067664
Bigger portions became the norm in America because for most of the 19th and 20th century food was cheaper and more abundant than it was in many other places because of the huge industrial food production system. There was this huge wave of plenty that everyone got swept up in and feasting became the daily norm.

>>14067693
Illegal how exactly?
Is it a restaurant can't sell them? Or can they offer for free?
Is it illegal for me to bring a ziploc bag and put my left overs in it?

Do people really eat 3/4 cup of ketchup with their burger and fries? Like just glug it down at the end of the meal? I would guess in their little diagram that shit makes up a large portion of the calories, and they cherry-picked the ketchup that is just corn syrup with red dye.

>>14069461
the biggest thing on the original mcdonald's menu (in the 1950s) was the item currently called the cheeseburger. you're simply wrong about the price of food being the driving factor

>>14067664
Piping hot molasses poured straight into the mouth

>>14067664
>merely 1400 calories
>enough for 2 people or 2 meals
ok twink

>>14069437
>Lots of adults are fucking children with no self control.
Anon... I hope you're not one of the adults that do this to children and lack self control.

>>14067664

>>14069764
wow you are fucking stupid

>>14067664
>with each decade as we age, we need 100 fewer calories per day

So I'm now in my twenties and my maintenance calories is 1400 (I'm pretty thin).
If this statement is true, I will need to eat 900 calories by the time I'm 70yo. It doesn't sound right...

>>14068572
Not that anon, but I'm the same: with breakfast I always drink a big cup of latte, and with lunch and dinner I have a plate full of leafy greens (about 250 grams).
I drink/eat those to fill up before the main course

>>14069810
Somehow survive to 160 and you won't need to eat anything at all. Live after that and you'll generate calories just by existing.

>>14068618
>you're young you will get over it.
I'm not young actually. You're just douchey.

>>14067664
NO. I WANT TO EAT THE WHOLE PLATE. I'M NOT A PUSSY. REEEEE. I'M NOT A FOOD ADDICT EITHER.

>>14070169
not him, but who the fuck uses the word "douchey" nowadays?

>>14070174
>food addict
What a ridiculous term. Of course people have a dependency on food. Stop breathing, you oxygen addict.

>>14068548
imagine writing this

>>14070441
you don't have to eat scientifically designed fast/junk food to live

>>14070441
>t. alcoholic who claims he'll die of dehydration if he doesn't crack open a beer every now and then

>>14070441
Isn't O2 addiction actually a thing though?

>>14068572
50lbs of Celery covered in mustard

>>14070471
>all food is fast food
Then call them "fast food addicts". That's a real thing.
>>14070475
See above. Use words correctly. If you called alcoholics "fluid addicts", I'd be on your case too.
>>14070485
The only thing I could possibly imagine you referring to is oxygen therapy, and I can't find anything on habit-forming with that.

>>14067711
>>14067693
>>14069484
Australia is a nanny state

https://www.foodsafety.com.au/blog/are-restaurant-doggy-bags-legal

>Many people consider it their right to take home any food leftover after a restaurant meal. After all, they’ve paid for it, so why shouldn’t they?
However, they may not know all the facts about doggy-bagging laws and their potential threat to food safety.

>Many Australian restaurants have begun to ban the popular custom of allowing diners to take home uneaten food – but this doesn’t necessarily mean the practice is illegal. There’s currently no law in Australia that would prevent restaurants from offering their customers take-away containers for leftover food.

>According to each state’s food board, it’s actually up to the restaurant, but they do recommend erring on the side of caution. These authorities suggest that the containers be dated and the customer is given instructions on how to safely store and reheat the food. Some restaurants are taking this advice a step further and asking those who wish to take home leftovers to sign a legal waiver.

>>14070627
I've never once gotten food poisoning from leftovers.
Anytime I've gotten food poisoning was from "fresh" food

>>14070627
>this doesn't mean the practice is illegal
It's restaurants being greedy cunts.

>>14070909
are they planning on reusing the food?

>>14071081
theoretically, if you arent allowed to take home leftovers you have to come back to the restaurant more often for food. More returns, more money

>>14071243
diners and pubs are somewhere you go everyday not restaurants

>>14070627
its just to people don't turn around a say
>I ate 4 day old leftover from your restaurant and got runny shits
>well yeah, you left it there for 4 days
>BUT IT WAS FROM YOUR RESTAURANT

almost all regulation is to stop people from suing

>>14071346
Advice is not regulation.

What the hell, did a mod move this here from /v/?

>>14071346
America is the land of frivolous lawsuits and this shit has never happened wtf is happening in Australia?

>>14071395
like the other guy said
Australia is a nanny state, so if anyone did sue, the court would likely side with them
because its 'somehow' up to chef to ensure the meal resists all forms of entropy because citizens are too stupid to take care of themselves

>>14067664
they didn't list the pickles

>>14071433
that sounds like Italian courts where they tried to execute earthquake researchers for not accurately predicting an earthquake in time.

>>14067664
I recall seeing a study that found the average American actually eats pretty much the same amount of fat and protein as they did a century ago, the only thing that's changed drastically is that the consumption of carbs (especially sugar) has gone up massively. Portion size is less of an issue that the shitloads of soda and Starbucks that most fat Americans drink

>>14071395
USA might be the land of frivolous lawsuits but Australia is the land of banning things for frivolous reasons, for example until recently the was an outright ban on all videogames rated 18+. A few years ago they even tried banning all porn featuring women with small tits because they looked too "childlike"

>>14071579
oh yeah I remember that with the titties wtf man

>>14070191
GenXers

TANK U DADDY BOBAMA PLEASE GIVE ME MY 1 SERVING IN MY TINY CUBE-COMPARTMENT NON-BINARY TRANSPARENT PLASTIC LIVING ENCLOSURE VEGAN

>>14067664
Wow man three pickle slices is too much. You need to cut back to two.

>>14071317
who said anything about going back every day?

>>14071843
it doesn't make sense otherwise unless you were frequenting those restaurants every day

>>14067664
>3/4 cup of tomato sauce
What the fuck

>>14068548
someone's jealous

>>14072046
do you not own a refrigerator?

>>14072071
even spread across the burger and fries thats too much ketchup. The OP isnt completely accurate, no one uses that much damn sauce

>>14067664
>half the food
>62% the fat

makes sense

>>14071395
Australia is a prison colony. Zero sense of individual rights, except what emerged here and there in the bush.

>>14068572
>what do you eat?
starch

>>14071795
Gen X here. Can confirm. I still say "douchey" once in a while.

>>14071433
Very few restaurants follow the advice, so there must be at least one incidence of what you described actually happening. Show it to me.

>>14068923
Americans work longer and work more manual labor than any other european country per capita. While we dont have exact data back in the day, it's nowhere close to unreasonable to assume the same or even a bigger gap existed in early America where there were far more farmers, subsistence farmers, and literally building the country at that time. Many European nations and civilization had been mostly built up by that point for centuries. That will result in a pretty insane difference when you consider the time frame North America was converted from raw land to three countries.

>>14072604
>Americans work longer and work more manual labor than any other european country per capita.

AmeriKKKans also have way more overweight, obese and morbidly obese people than any other european country per capita. Americans need to stop coping about the fact that they just can't stop stuffing their fat fuckface with shit food.

shut up faggot.

The amerifat defensive doublethink in this thread is strong.

Can we have a show of hands? How many people in this thread RIGHT NOW are actually obese?

No judgement, just for science.

>>14072642
me but this is my first post, also i'm not american

>>14072642
Not me, but I haven't been posting in this thread and am not American.

>>14072604
AmeriCope LMAO

>>14070507
Viciously based

>>14071395
Literally nothing. No-one has ever been denied a doggy bag at a restaurant where asking for one wouldn't be deeply embarassing and no-one has gotten sued and it's literally not illegal. The "Australian Institute of Food Safety" is business that sells food safety certificates and is not a government body let alone with any power or authority.

tl;dr

for real amerifats are fat because they have no food culture and it's all fast food style. even sit-down restaurants are fast food style food. you order an entree with sides. the meat is very expensive on its own so it's only affordable if you average it with a bunch of fries, dipping sauces, soft drink, fattening rolls etc. You usually can't just order a big plate of meat and veggies like you can in eurochad restaurants that have actual cuisines. In america everything is breaded, fried, dunked in sugar, with more dipping sauces on the side. this is what amerifats eat every day. of course it tastes worse if you reheat it, so they try to fit as much fried food in their belly while it's hot.

>>14072690
What are you talking about ? Sit down culture is one of the biggest things about American food culture. Maybe in the Midwest where it’s a food desert

>>14072700
what

I'm saying the food itself is fast food tier even if you sit down

inb4 more cope. no the food is shitty compared to europe and most of asia for that matter. talking about regions of america is further cope

>>14067670
>but it's low fat

people still fall for this meme lmao

>>14068548
Holy yikes

>>14067664
>685 kcal
>a serving for dinner
Maybe if you are a woman or a child. The real problem is servings being the same for everybody when everybody has radically different maintenance levels.

>>14072690

>>14073121
>no arguments
>posts dumbjack

back to r*ddit

>>14067664

>It's all on the plate therefore I must eat it all

Maybe just be blessed with more food for the same price as other countries and take that shit home for a second meal? How fucking retarded are you people

>>14073130
Rent free

>>14073162
If that was the case, AmeriKKKans would eat normal (human) portions and they wouldn't be disgusting hambeasts.

>>14073054
Unless you're a bodybuilder or a long distance runner, you're likely to burn 1500 - 2K cal a day (depending on F or M).
685 calories for a meal, with 3 meals a day, seems legit honestly.

>>14069719
>1400
you do realize that the recommended amount for an adult is 2000 and people usually eat three meals a day?

>>14073188
Most males are 2-2.4k. Though I guess it also depends on height, I live in one of the tallest countries. Bodybuilders and heavy sporters easily go 3k+.

>>14073697
I live in Italy, the average guy here is barely 1.70 - 1.75 (which is 5'5 - 5'7), so that explains a lot.

Remember to take your time eating bros. Oversized portions are eventually outed as such if you don't inhale your meal.

>>14073162
>In our restaurants, food is served with enough for two people with the assumption that you'll eat half, take the rest home so you have something to eat later

Maybe read the entire post before you make yourself look stupid

>>14067664
Or. OR. Just eat twice a day. Or once.

I'm starting to think portion control is a lost cause. We're meant to go through feast and fast cycles.

>>14072721
just because he says low fat doesn't mean that he drinks corn syrup by the bottle

>>14070627
I thought the gun laws in Ausland were bad but holy fucking shit no wonder the entire world is just rolling over for the NWO brought on by corona if there are laws like this already in place.

>>14071346
I have never heard anything like this Burgerland and we are a nation founded on suing everyone for any perceived slight.

>>14067664
Obesity has a pretty strong correlation with when corn was added to everything and the increased portion sizes as a result. If you cook all your meals at home it is pretty damn hard to gain weight unless you try, and I say this as an American fat fuck who was obese for years. Obesity will always be a problem as long as corn byproducts is forced into everything we are sold that we do not cook ourselves and people do not have the time, energy, or generational knowledge to cook for themselves. The addiction to the additives is the genius part of it all, unfortunately.

It's a complicated issue with many facets, but there's a reason sugar's recommended daily value doesn't appear on the nutrition label and pizza was classified as a vegetable so it could be served to children. Food lobbyists are some of the scariest, richest motherfuckers out there and the corn, sugar, pizza, and meat lobbyists are hard to challenge.

Everyone's addicted to what they're selling, too, so no politician is going to make that challenge lest they be smeared into oblivion for muh freedoms on taking away muh twinkies, muh pizza, muh oreos!! It's ingenious and disgusting. Lack of education breeds dumber and dumber people.

tl;dr politics and money

>>14075305

This is what I do. Eat some fruit and a protein (peanut butter, Greek yogurt, sardines, eggs) for lunch. Then dinner is a big portion of vegetables and another protein. Averages out to around 1200 calories which leaves me enough room for a snack of some sort if I want it.

>>14068624
>t. American hippo

>>14069022
ok retard

>>14069719
ok hippo

>>14067664
Why are so many posts on this bored about dieting these days?

>>14073163
that pic looks a lot like you looking in the mirror,fag

>>14067664
oh fuck that extra slice of pickle sure is going to turn you into a fat ass!

>>14069022
read the ingredients on your ketchup bottle, you fucking mongoloid.

>>14076124
fat quarantine fucks

>>14076133
why are so many of you triggered by the fucking pickle of all things? There are so many other things to snip at but THE PICKLE MUH EXTRA PICKLE

why?

its self control and diet. You can eat a huge unhealthy portion of mcdonalds and still be fit if you do it once or twice a year. If you eat that shit every day on top of never exercising then you will get obese.

The real redpill is to eat big portions but only once or twice a day with no snacking.
You want to eat a huge 1600 calorie meal? Okay well assuming you want 2000 calories in your day then eat a 400 calorie breakfast such as an omelette and then fast until dinner and enjoy your giant fuck off meal.
You can eat like a fatass while staying thin, you just have to do it smart.

>>14068548
lmfao you can tell the average age of this board is a bit higher than 4chan's overall average because of how fucking boomeresque some of these posts are. they're not wrong though

>>14068548
>over priced family sized bag of chips that's half air
Do people still fall for this? The ships are sold by weight, not volume, and the weight is printed on the bags. The bags are half air because otherwise the chips would get fucking destroyed in shipping. Retard.

>>14076653
You can tell by the way he writes that he's a very old person (~40 yrs), so he's easily taken in by nonsense like that.

>>14067677
Its been over a decade since that was the norm. Now we serve for 8 people

>>14076582
This is true, but you still have to be careful. The calories rack up incredibly fast.

I imagine if you really wanted to eat like a fatass with fast food, restaurants, snacky cakes and cheesy poofs...you'd probably have to fast several days a week to balance it out.

And alcoholics I have no idea what they do unless they are natural skellies.

>>14069835
That's what the lizard people don't want you to know

>>14067664
Trying to just eat less generally doesn't work. It's necessary to eat entirely different foods. I'm 5'7" and 120 pounds, because I eat mostly unprocessed carbs, and my meals often exceed two pounds.

>>14076795
When I was an alcoholic I wouldn't eat dinner so when I drank at night the alcohol would hit me harder

>>14076079
>
Corn syrup, hydrogenated oils and soy.

>>14072721
de novo lipogenesis is expensive

I bet you can't name a food that's actually high carb in the form you eat it.

>>14075305
I'm currently on 72-hour fasts (roughly) with at least a 30 min walk a day and I can't believe how much better I feel and how much I actually appreciate the food when I do it eat. I also crave vegetables way more than I ever have.

I started at 274 lbs 6 days ago and when I woke up this morning I was 261.8. Shit's magic and it definitely isn't just what you eat it's eating frequency that determines body composition.

The "6 small meals a day meme" is actually terrible for you because your insulin is constantly spiked. It's only good if you're a high-level athlete or pro bodybuilder and you physically need the extra energy.

>>14077078
don't be disheartened if your weight goes way up again when you resume eating. it just be like that and doesn't reflect the fat loss.

>>14076795
>alcoholics
It's mostly the IPA beer söy fags that are unhealthy. Having a tumbler of whiskey or other strong spirit isn't nearly as calorically dense as a beer.

>>14077095
My goal weight is around 185-190 lbs (I'm 6'), so I probably won't be stopping until I get there, with some minor hiccups when I visit friends or family out of town. The point is that I actually have a good system I can stick to and effectively re-teach my body how to eat and what real hunger is.

Honestly, not paying for fast food and either cooking my own or bringing catering from work home and eating every few days has been a godsend. I've saved so much money for other shit I need/want. Paying 400-500 dollars a month for one person just in food is insane looking back on it.

>>14072642
Morbidly so. Not American.

>>14070627
legit never had any restaurant refuse doggie bags, or try and give advice about reheating/storage; they'll often make you pack it yourself though

>>14076582
this is the only way i can lose weight.

eat once a day, no snacking in between

>>14067664
>Somewhere along the line, we lost the plot though

>>14072690

>in shape from lifting and cycling
>have fetish for fat chicks
>as the obesity epidemic worsens, fat girls are fatter and more common, but by extension I look even fitter

Our time is now, lads

>>14077983
From someone who doesn't know much about USA, why are the middle section states fatter?

>>14078146
Blacks live there.
I'm not even shitposting. That's seriously where they all live.

>>14078146
people are bored there, there's nothing to do except for eating

>>14078146
That’s where we dump the low quality food. If you live on the coasts you can get fresh fruit and veggies, but everything in the middle is canned or frozen or very low quality. It’s also a lot of processed food loaded with corn syrup and sodium.

>>14078146

More rural areas with more poor people and minorities, plus a local cuisine of "sticks-to-your-ribs" food.

>>14078166

No it isn't. Black people mostly live in the southeast.

>>14068579
You are a retard. People didn’t come to America and abandon their culture completely. US culture is taken for granted because it is so pervasive worldwide, pardon us for not having gay traditions like worshipping a queen.

>>14072721
Fat has the most calories anon.
Less fat = less calories per weight

>>14068579
US culture is literally
>every european that isn’t a massive fucking pussy moved here

>>14078628
AmeriKKKans are fucking retarded

>>14078146
Barely human flyover wh*toids eat disgusting garbage like hotdish which is just tater tots and cream of mushroom soup and cincinatti chili over spaghetti and they drink tea with it that they literally boil just so they can fit more sugar than humanly possible in it

>>14078552

But you need fat in your diet and it's usually more satiating than carbs. Besides, low fat foods have usually had their fat replaced with sugar or corn syrup cause fat has a lot of flavor. As long as you're not eating straight peanut butter you're probably not going to be overeating too much fat. It's so much easier to focus on protein while limiting sugars, carbs and alcohol.

>>14076653
>>14076728
you can tell how young and stupid people are when they believe that BS about packing the bags with air for shipping, because they didn't do that in ye olde days and the chips did not break.

>>14067664
i'm pretty sure my wcdonald's meal is only ~500 Calories unless i get a double-quarter pounder.and the meal on the right won't give me my daily 2000 manlet calories, if i eat 3 times a day!

murikans get fat because they eat eat literally 60 000 calories a day. it's not portions, it's fucking selfcontrol.

>>14071558
This guy gets it. Emergence of simple, heavily processed carbs is what makes ppl fat. But don’t forget about ‘vegetable’ oils, those weren’t in most ppls diets until at least 100 yrs ago

Fasting needs to be the normal. Easier to say no to food instead of tempting ones self with food.

>>14079928
https://www.asiaone.com/health/i-eat-30000-calories-day-woman-quest-become-worlds-fattest

my bad, 30 000.
>>14079935
>>14071558
no. they just need to stop being mindless animals by NOT eating an insane amt of calories per day , while refusing to even walk to dunking donut. simple math.

>>14079953
>Fasting
They're no better than crash diets. Muh muslims get fat during ramadan, ismal.

>>14079963

You're implying an end date with your 'crash diet' argument. Fasting needs to be a definite meal plan. I'm not talking about a hardcore fast, just skipping breakfast. Breakfast is a scam. The first calorie shouldn't go into your mouth until 12pm at the earliest.

>>14079972
I start feeling hungry about 15 minutes after waking up (6 AM) and it doesn't go away unless I eat something.
How am I supposed to wait until 1 PM? Also it doesn't really matter if you get your calories in the morning or night, in the end it's always calories in/out

>>14080050

You have to fix yourself, anon. Go hungry for a few hours.

>>14071799
Chill out, Carl. Nobody here liked Obama. He was a mediocre president. He’ll likely be remembered for being black than for any policy he made. Go back to grilling.

>>14076653
Yeah we need to put air in the chip bags because those niggers at the distribution center won’t stop kicking food through the truck doors like they’re playing fútbol con sus amigos!

>>14067664
a gram of fat is 7 calories though

>>14069810
>real life follows linear functions
Retarded
>>14069835
>making fun of a retard
Retarded

>>14079928
It's pretty easy to eat over 500 calories at McDs in America. A 10 piece McNuggets with 2 of any of the sauces will get you to roughly 500. A McChicken and small fries have more calories than the meal on the right.

>the meal on the right won't give me my daily 2000 manlet calories, if i eat 3 times a day
685 is over a third of your daily amount of calories, so hopefully you aren't eating as much at home.

>>14072642
American, healthy weight
Ma used to weigh 400, now 275 (not muscle)
Dad is overweight
Brother overweight
Big chunk of extended family is overweight/obese
I come from a long line of trailer trash, so the fattiness of my lineage shouldn’t be surprising. If you’ve been to any other part of the world, you can just walk around in the states and notice the increased fat population.

>>14080075
I'm more comfortable eating a small breakfast (200 calories) instead of feeling hungry for 6 hours for no real reason tho

>>14069764
that chart
no way in hell a 5'7" would weight 130lbs
i may be overweight but even at my lowest at 169lbs i was skinny. to go to 130lbs would look underweight

>>14080169
I'm the same height as you but at 155 pounds, and I still have a pretty obvious gut. No way in hell I'd call that skinny.

Chip packer here. Product is sold by weight and the air is to prevent damage depending on product type. Potato chips normally get more air than more resilient snacks like pretzels and cheese puffs, but there's nothing stopping a factory from loading any of those snack bags up with air too if they want.

>>14069764
this only makes sense if you maintain the density and proportions of an 8 year old girl

>>14070507
what kind of mustard?

>>14072642
Im not but im a drug addict so theres that

>>14078146
Blacks and those specific states are the Grain Belt that feeds most of the nation.

Protip: the FDA recommends WAAAAY too much grains for daily intake and not enough fat.

>>14079972
This. What most people don't understand about fasting is that it's a lifestyle change, not a "crash fad diet". You WILL yo-yo fast if you go back to old eating habits once you hit your goal weight.

The point is not just to lose weight, but to re-teach the body what true hunger is and streamline metabolic processes in healthy ways.

>>14080158
You have a sugar addiction and low insulin sensitivity. Many such cases. But if you are healthy and at a good weight, fuck what everyone else has to say about it. You do you.

>>14067664
3 pickle chips is always my portion you ass

>>14067664
>so everyone not on some meme diet is xbox HUEG

This is a lie promoted by the Elites thru their Useful Idiots, the SJWs, who want everybody to be a starveling femboi so that Americans will be easier to control.

I only know two actual fat people and I rarely see fat people anywhere.

>>14081363
not him but i will admit i have a sugar addiction, i am hiding out while eating pastries for gods sake but i cant take control of my diet until i move out. and this is what they mean by obesity is contagious, you need certain conditions to eat properly and do it every damn day consistently without issues

The Midwest is also fat due to white people, jesus fucking christ these lardy milkbreaths in the thread Pic related is the prevalence of *self-reported* obesity among non-Hispanic White-Americans. You just know these obese whites have shame and arent reporting the full story

>>14081427
what is that a chart of? obesity? then its out of date. even if you believe its a matter of free will and we're just eating to damn much the very fact that over 60% of all deaths have as a cause of death diabetes should make you think twice about this whole thing

>>14072071
this, half the calories there are probably from the fucking ketchup lmao

It's not the calorie density that makes fast food and packaged snacks so fattening, it's the fact that they taste so good. Mcdonald's fries are not more calorie-dense than mashed potatoes with butter, and McDonald's burgers aren't more calorie-dense than bacon and toast; but how often do you cook bacon or boiled potatoes and then wanted to keep eating until it felt like your stomach was going to split at the seams? In my experience, the food I cook for myself is good, but it's not good enough to eat when I'm not hungry. Whereas if I go to burger king and eat my fill, I'll experience physical pain afterwards from how much I've consumed (not that I do this with any regularity). You just can't eat plain bacon to the point of sickness, because it straight up isn't good enough.

I think the modern American obesity epidemic is most accurately pinned on improvement in flavor rather than other more commonly touted factors:

>increases in calorie density / food is worse for you
This can't be it for the reasons I gave in my first paragraph. Americans have been eating potatoes and bacon since the country's founding.

>creeping increase in portion size
It can't be this, because portions are driven by appetite and not the other way around. If you gave the same person a plate of either infinite baked potatoes or infinite fries, and told them to eat as much as they want, they'd eat more if given the fries. The only explanation for increased portions is the fact that people want to eat more of the modern foods. People have always eaten until they were full.

>muh food desert
The USDA definition of a "food desert" is an area that's one mile away from a large supermarket. Yeah, a 15 minute walk sure is inaccessible...

>muh education / muh poverty
I'll grant the fact that black and poor people are extremely stupid and know almost nothing. That said, I doubt there is worse nutrition education in modern America since the 50's, or compared to what the average person knows in Thailand

>>14073188
breakfast:
1/2 cup cereal 85 calories
1/4 milk 20 calories
1 cup orange juice 110 calories

lunch:
apple 80 calories
cheese 120 calories
gatorade 130 calories

that's only 545 calories. I can eat 1300 for dinner and still have room for dessert.

>>14080142
im not murikan. i get quality beef from aussie shit posters at my Wcdonald's.
>eat at home
WTF does this mean? i don't purposely eat at wcdonald's and then go home to eat some more like (YOU), you crazy fat shit with no selfcontrol.

>>14072642
i'm a SEA skeleton. eat fast food once or twice a day. 1.73 metres, ~60Kg. No, I will not convert them to non-standard retarded units.

>>14081780
Same, I also eat 2000 calories at McD's all at once and nothing else every day.

>>14078927
>>14078552
Fat itself isn't unhealthy, but it makes it easy to eat more calories than you realize.

>>14078146
That there is what we call the Bible Belt. They dont believe in science there, only Jesus. God loves you as you are, even if what you are is a butterball turkey

>>14081363
I was feeling hungry even on keto, I doubt it's the sugar. Now I'm back to a low carb (non-keto) diet and there's no difference in my hunger level.
Maybe it's because I'm underweight?

>>14068548
Who the fuck told you apples have more calories than fries?

>>14067670
Just work out.

>>14075305
means less cooking and cleanup too, I approve

>>14079956
faggot. You know it's true and you know big carb is protected by the gov. Fat and proteins are a-okay. It's soda that needs to be banned.

>>14081585
have you read The Hungry Brain? It's all about this and the neurological underpinnings behind cravings and appetite. The tldr is that the American cultural landscape is too varied and flavorful for our monkeybrains to handle, our brains reward us with lots of happiness juice for eating new, excessively flavorful foods.

Convincing but depressing.

>>14067664
Thats not a good way to describe the obesity epidemic. The issue is that the sedentary human should only be eating 1200-1500 calories of plant and sardine based foods everyday.

>>14081585
Food additive addiction is real

>Obesity rate

they need to stop using this and start counting in overweight people, which by this point is likely near three quarters of the country
"disgusting-lite" isn't any more acceptable

>>14072642
me over 300lbs. this is probably my last chance to cut the shit or die

>>14073380
>eat three meals a day
amerisharts do that
rest of the world has one meal and two minor servings

>>14076098
I average out around 1700 per day, but I usually have a heavier lunch and a light dinner, wonder if that makes a difference.

>>14078146
Agrarian areas still eat like they burn 5k calories a day working in the fields even though 90% of them sit on their butt all day. You can see this on a smaller scale with California, people around the farm lands are fatter than coasties.

>>14067664
>just over half your daily calories is 2 servings

lol

>>14067664
but if i skip breakfast, have a 600 cal lunch and then have the left for dinner that still is <2000 cal