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"Fat People"

I was watching this programme on ITV a few minutes ago and there were two families on it who were competing to lose the most weight. The winning family won a holiday to America in a 4-star hotel and they got some spending money with it.
To enter for the show though, you've obviously got to be pretty fat so those of us that are currently a reasonable weight don't stand a chance. The way I see it, people are being rewarded for piling on the pounds by being lazy and stuffing their faces then just losing a bit before they more than likely get fat again.
One of the contestants on the winning team started out at 27 stone and was only 13 years old. At the final weigh-in he was still just over 23 stone so does someone like that really deserve such a prize.
I'll admit I'm not the the most active person in the world but I do work hard to make sure I don't become overweight. I suppose I shouldn't be jealous though because I knowing that this holiday is the best thing that'll ever happen to him because at the rate he's going I imagine he'll die when he's 40 from some sort of fat person's disease.
How do people become so amazingly fat?

# Underweight = <18.5
# Normal weight = 18.5-24.9
# Overweight = 25-29.9
# Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater

My BMI is 17.6

:((((

I'm 5'11" and weight 11.5 stone, that gives me a BMI of 22.5

Why is almost everyone in this topic skinny and lanky? I guess it's a certain type of person that goes to these websites.

I seem to be taller than most people in real life. Yet online, I seem to be practically a midget...

Mouldy Cheese wrote:
> How do they become so fat?
>
> Mostly, because they are poor in a nation where traditional methods
> of food production and distribution have been usurped by
> supermarkets.
>
> Before the rise of the supermarket quality food would be availiable
> from specialist shops in every village or town. If you wanted bread
> you'd go to the bakers, if you wanted meat, the butchers. The poor
> would buy thier food from such shops, and would not get fat because
> it was quality food.
>
> With the rise of the supermarket cheap food became availiable, and
> obviously poor people would go for the cheaper food. Problem is that
> the cheap food is (generally) really, really bad for you. As everyone
> buys from the supermarkets, specialist shops either fold or become
> more expensive. Poor people cannot afford quality, healthy food
> anymore.
>
> {I don't think I explained that very well}
>
> Also, advertising, which again is most effective upon the vunerable.
> I dont think I need to explain how that works.


I don't think you can really blame this on supermarkets. Poor people are perfectly capable of eating healthily, if they choose to. They choose not to. Why buy good food and spend time preparing it when you can buy some microwave chips and eat five minutes later? That seems to be the prevalent attitude. Honestly though, I cannot imagine how people can have so little respect for their own bodies.

I can easily live on £15-20 a week in food, and that's not just an ordinary diet, but an ultra-healty one...

VenomByte wrote:
"I can easily live on £15-20 a week in food, and that's not just an ordinary diet, but an ultra-healty one..."

Potatoes and pasta? :)

Seriously though, I'm interested, what would you buy?

Ouch. I'm underweight.

I lived on $20 a week in Canada, 15 piece bucket of KFC chicken for $14.99 and then pringles and soda. Such a healthy diet and i lost 2 stone just eating that for 4 months

Grix Thraves wrote:
> VenomByte wrote:
> "I can easily live on £15-20 a week in food, and that's
> not just an ordinary diet, but an ultra-healty one..."
>
> Potatoes and pasta? :)
>
> Seriously though, I'm interested, what would you buy?

Alrighty. VenomByte's ultra healthy diet plan

Weekly shopping will consist of:

5 x 420g tinned salmon £3.00
tins of baked beans ... probably about 3p
porridge oats (for about 80p you can make 20 bowlfulls... might as well be free)
bran flakes £3.20
many gallons of milk £4
oranges/apples £3
1 loaf bread £0.50
2x 500g Sainsbury's budget coleslaw £1.00
green veg £3
potatoes £0.79 for 1.5kg
peanuts £1 for 500g
chicken thigs 1.5kg, £1.60 or something


That's roughly £20 worth I think... and you don't need all the above every week.

All the major food groups are covered. You have your 5 helpings of fruit & veg, plenty of milk, white meat, even some unsaturated fats (peanuts). It's also massively high in fibre which will, um, keep you regular.

My typical day woudl consist of:
Breakfast, 9am, big bowl of bran flakes
snack at 11am, coleslaw & salmon sandwich
lunch at 2pm, probbaly salmon & jacket potatoes.
dinner at 6pm, probably roast chicken, potatoes & green veg
some fruit at some point
snack at 8-9pm, probably another big bowl of cereal
maybe a bowl of porridge at about midnight too.


(Please note: The above diet is not quite Atkins-compliant)

VenomByte wrote:
> chicken thigs 1.5kg, £1.60 or something

Pfft, chicken is as expensive as steak, a kilogram of chicken breat costs 9 quid, so thigh would cost about 5, so it's more like 7.50

i'munn wrote:
> VenomByte wrote:
> chicken thigs 1.5kg, £1.60 or something
>
> Pfft, chicken is as expensive as steak, a kilogram of chicken breat
> costs 9 quid, so thigh would cost about 5, so it's more like 7.50


Go to the freezer section, not the fridges. Look for the massive bags of frozen drumsticks or chicken thighs, not boned chicken breast.

VenomByte wrote:

> I seem to be taller than most people in real life. Yet online, I seem
> to be practically a midget...

I don't seem to be, I am :)

What's all this about BMI and how do you work it out?

* too lazy / busy to browse, sorry.