I'm 230 lbs, 6 feet tall, and 35% bodyfat, I haven't done any lifting in over a year and look pretty bad, and I get told that I'm "not fat".

When I go to the grocery store more than half the people I see are more overweight than me, this including youth.

What is the world coming to?

life is to easy no one gives a ****

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It's not the world, it's the US.

Imagine cutting to 10% body fat and people looking at you like you're crazy when you tell them that you're on a diet, then you look at them and they have fat rolls. (Ded fkn Srs)

Food is just crazy now

Its got so many chemicals and oils and sugars you can overeat and not even realize it

You can add like 3-500 cals to a meal just with sauces these days, and its not even gonna make you more full.

This.

I was just in italy and the only fatsos were the americans.

we have chit-tier culture all around. The USA is a concerted effort to be the most disgusting culture on earth.

Agreed. I was recently 6'3'' 265, which is the largest I've been in about 10 years. I went on Ozempic because I want to cut to about 215-220 by end of Summer. When I was telling people I'm starting the medicine, at least 4-5 people told me "you don't need it, that's ridiculous".

In reality my belly looks like **** and carrying the extra weight around was making me more tired. Not a good place to be at all.

I'M LIVING THAT RN , I'M JUST GONNA KEEPING RECOMPING GETTING LEAN ASF CALORIES UNDER CONTROL , LIFTING AS HARD AS MY BODY LETS ME WITH THE CALORIES IM AT WITH BINGES HERE AND THERE AT THIS POINT. IM pROB 10% OR UNDER 198 POUNDS AT 6 FT VEINS AND ABS UP THE ARSE i JUST CANT BE BOTHERED WITH EATING SHEIT ALL THE TIME. VEGGIES AND MEAT AND FRUIT ARE HONESTLY BETTER, JUNK FOOD JUST GIVES A DOPAMINE RUSH LIKE A DRUG

It's a lot better than the 1990s. I was just thinking about this the other day, you could get like 4000 calories of food at McDonald's(A Double QP Super Size meal with a bucket of Coke) for like $5 back then. And I remember it was fairly popular to eat at Buffets all the time and eat until I was literally in pain.

As great as the 1990s were for quality of life, it was a terrible time to develop life habits. I still struggle with food to this day as a stress reliever. Considering that most Milennials also came of age in the 1990s, it's not surprising that people turn to food now as well.

I always wonder how they get to obesity rates of like 15-20% in European countries with these statistics. That must be mostly fat people just above the limit, while those Americans could lose half of their weight and still be overweight. It was super curious to see in the US how so many people were just morbidly obese in the like 300 pounds range.

It's disgusting.

Everyone here is raised in a coddling environment... Oh you want more cake? then have more if it makes you feel better! Also we will drive 200 meters to get some ice cream if you still want more!

our portion sizes are absolutely mind-boggling compared to europe. Going to Italy was pretty eye-opening on how chitty things are over here in the USA. We are a legit chithole.

Always bet on bloat.

There's pros and cons to both cultures and places. I was kinda jelly of the size of the roads, houses and the space everywhere. But yeah the portion sizes are ridiculous for sure. I got some kinda soda or lemonade in Vegas and the medium size was like a full liter and halfway through I started feeling dizzy from the sheer amount of sugar in it.

It's not just the portions. There's plenty of fast food places in Europe but I've never met a single person in my entire life that eats fast food daily. Many ingredients fast food joints in the US use are illegal in Europe as well. I'm sure they're illegal for a reason.

Lol.

I was up to 255 lbs for awhile, not sure what my bodyfat percentage was though, was working for 6 months which helped me lose almost 30 lbs.

My doctor recommended that I go down to about 170 lbs, which is a reasonable bodyweight for someone 6 feet tall who doesn't lift, even in my prime when I lifted 3 days a week I looked my best at 176 lbs (for arm wrestling).

Seen a friend recently who I hadn't seen in over 15 years, he's overweight but not as much as me, when I told him I was way too fat and needed to lose a lot of weight he was shocked and said "you're not fat", and commented on how I used to be too skinny when we used to hang out, which happened to be in my prime at around 176 lbs, I swear people just troll me when they tell me I used to be so skinny and say I look better now.

Top-to-bottom I'd have to type a novel to explain the detriment of our "culture" in comparison to Europe.

We can't even use mass transit because of all the crackheads.... Think about how insane that is. There are so many crackheads here, that using trains is kind of impossible. Like wtf....

You'd have to line up, and march 10% of our population into the ocean in order to START the change... and then you'd STILL have a lot of work to do.

A lot of our problem is big pharma here, and the level of control they have on their addicts. But then again, it's a cultural acceptance of just eating, using drugs, and being an ******* all day long that got us here. There isn't just ONE problem.

One of the funniest ways how that chit culture manifests itself is the shopping cart thing which cart narcs show. The average person in other parts of the world couldn't even imagine such a situation existing.

That's exactly what I'm getting at!

We have every imaginable problem at every turn.

homeless, drug addiction, horrible drivers, crime, rage, and a general lack of ability to make good choices among ourselves.

"HEY! You said the word "GOD" in front of my kid?! I'm SUING YOU!" - And the fuking guy will win his court case.

There are multiple causes, but beyond the "calories in, calories out" mantra I'd attribute a lot to widespread depression, on top of chemicals fuking up people's hormones. Most people know about plastics messing up people's endocrine systems, especially men since they mimic estrogen in the body, which can affect the ability to stay thin, but now it's being shown that the same kind of disruptions are happening from PFAS ("forever chemicals") that are in most water in especially the western world. I'd bet the depression factor has Americans drinking more alcohol than they have in a century, and of course a huge amount of people just eat what the majority of the grocery stores provide - hyper processed foods. A multitude of prescription drugs fuk up peoples' metabolisms as well.

The part that has always puzzled me is obese kids and young adults. You get to 40 or 50, I get it. You probably have a couple of kids occupying most of your free time every day, you probably get crappier sleep than childless people, so it's easy to turn to conveniences. But if you're a teenager to early 20s, there's little excuse. Except....kids and other young people are more isolated and depressed than probably ever, not in spite of social media, but because of it. Young adults shouldn't give a fuk about politics. Very few ever did until smart phones came around. So many more of them are in the midst of middle age type of stress with politics being thrust at them, unnecessarily.

I write this not as excuses for people, but across the entire population these are factors that accumulate.

fat ****ing pieces of ****