A future star.... of My 600 Pound Life December 22, 2019 | Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 353 |
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When the food was brought out and the first person got up to get some this girl was immediately in line behind him. When I got seconds she was right in front of me getting thirds. I had to wait while she took several portions of lasagna.
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When it was time to leave I noticed the family had a bunch of take out boxes piled on the table.
Re: A future star.... of My 600 Pound Life December 22, 2019 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,062 |
Re: A future star.... of My 600 Pound Life December 23, 2019 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,367 |
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When it was time to leave I noticed the family had a bunch of take out boxes piled on the table.
At a restaurant where you are paying for food? Acceptable. At a dinner for volunteers where you pilfer all the food? Tacky beyond belief.
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Re: A future star.... of My 600 Pound Life December 23, 2019 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,576 |
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freya
This reminds me how gross buffets are.
There isn't conclusive proof (AFAIK) that overeating as a kid will result in an overweight adult but why would a decent parent allow their kid 5 plates of food? That is insanity and likely child abuse. If she really has a bottomless stomach then bring the poor kid to the doctor and find out if there is a medical reason for it. There are drugs to increase satiety if she has a medical issue.
One of my siblings was encouraged to be a chronic over-eater and she is the only one in my family who struggles with a weight problem, as in usually 100 lbs. overweight. It horrified me as a kid because we weighed the same despite her being a toddler and me starting puberty. The rest of us may have to cut back here and there but all of us are in the normal weight range.
I see more overweight kids today than thin ones. I think it is the "no is abusive" culture which cfdavep mentioned.
Re: A future star.... of My 600 Pound Life December 23, 2019 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,712 |
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craftyzits
Plastic in the food supply, (not on the food but microscopically in the food) is causing this runaway obesity. There are no definite connections made by researchers yet, but you are being altered from the inside out. Some are more sensitive to this contamination than others, as is with all contaminations.
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Plastic in the food supply, (not on the food but microscopically in the food) is causing this runaway obesity. There are no definite connections made by researchers yet, but you are being altered from the inside out. Some are more sensitive to this contamination than others, as is with all contaminations.
Or it could be portion size. The little girl conservatively consumed at least 5000 calories with her five plates of food.
A portion size of meat or bread is about the size of a fist. A serving of pasta is the size of a tennis ball. Cheese the size of a finger or matchbox. Vegetables double fists.Those king sized bagels they sell at the grocery store? At least 4 servings. I've read the average person spends $3000 a year dining out (this seems shocking to me). Source: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/consumer-expenditures/2015/pdf/home.pdf. I would guess there are business travelers skewing the numbers up a bit. This is an average across all units (people living together or alone, all incomes).
But honestly, how many people really divide a half gallon of ice cream into 32 half-cup servings? I think 10 servings is much more realistic. And a half cup serving looks tiny if you're using those Paul Bunyan sized bowls they sell.
Have you seen the restaurant menus that include the caloric data? Good luck finding many meal options under 1000 calories and that is nearly 50% of the recommended intake for sedentary adults.
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kman
There's another issue to be raised here. We had threads about this subject a long time ago.
Just as the authorities would get involved if parents were starving a child, this example is why authorities should intervene if a child is grossly obese. Those are two sides of the same coin. Starvation and morbid obesity are forms of abuse or, at least, neglect. IIRC (haven't yet searched), the past threads discussed instances of CPS going after parents of horribly fat (400+ lb) kids.