Why People Become Overweight

Why People Become Overweight

Why People Become Overweight

The main purpose of consuming food is to live. A variety of food is getting into our stomach for various purposes. Our body will use protein in the food to regenerate lean tissue and will convert carbohydrate into energy or fat to protect organs. Any surplus of food that is not used by the body will be converted into extra fat that will be placed in places like liver cells, muscle cells, and heart cells.

Overweight and obesity are not just the problem for high-income countries but also have become an issue for low- and middle-income countries. According to World Health Organization (WHO), worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2008, 1.5 billion adults aged 20 and above were overweight, and in 2010, nearly 43 million children under the age of 5 were overweight.

What to do if you Don’t want to Get Fat?

Like many things on this list, moderation is the key. Consuming coffee and other caffeinated beverages in moderation will let you avoid addiction and the pitfalls of excess caffeine consumption. It should go without saying that if you drink coffees and teas, avoid having them with excess calories such as honey, sugar, chocolate, caramel and anything else Starbucks has to offer.

Eating Fried Foods

Fried Foods

It is easy to get fat from consuming fried foods for the simple fact that fat has twice the calories of carbohydrates and proteins. Each gram of fat provides 9 calories of energy and unlike protein and even carbohydrates, your body can store dietary fat as body fat with little or no energy.

In addition to having more calories on average, fried foods almost always have excess empty calories added by the carbohydrate breading. Fried carbohydrates have almost zero nutritional value as they are devoid of vitamins and minerals.

What to do if you Don’t want to Get Fat

Eating fried foods can be avoided by most of the civilized world. All foods that are commonly fried can be prepared more healthy or eaten raw.

Not Exercising Enough or Not Exercising Correctly

The all-too-common sedentary lifestyle continues to be one primary reason why people are fat and getting fatter. Of course being physically inactive alone will not cause you to get fat but most fat people consume excess calories in addition to not exercising enough.

In addition to burning calories, regular exercises improve the health of almost every body system and-and improves bodily function. Even those who think they exercise regularly are still getting fat.

This is due to a combination poor nutrition and improperly exercising correctly. A large percentage people who exercise regularly only participate in a single activity, neglecting other important aspects of physical fitness which will ultimately lead to injury, disinterest and other excuses people use once they get fat.

Most people know they are supposed to exercise but really don’t know how much. Even a little exercise goes a long way to keeping the pounds off. If you can keep your caloric intake low by NOT doing most of the things on this list exercising for 30-60 minutes 3-4 times per week could be all it takes to maintain your current shape or even lose some fat and tone up. Having a balanced exercise program which includes all 5 components of physical fitness will go a long way to help you lose weight, stay in shape and not get fat.

Fatties Only Give A Shit About Themselves

Fat people are all self-absorbed assholes. Like an alcoholic, all they care about is the next slice of double stuffed crust pizza cruising down the conveyor belt. Instead of craving the high of drunkenness, they lust for the rush of harmful nutrition.

Woe is he who decides to be a part of a fattie’s life; he will always come second to her desire for the next piece of fried chicken. To them, you don’t have needs, you exist to make sure she gets her Whopper fresh. Sure, she feigns gratitude when you bring her burger and fries, but beware: when the high wears off, she will target you. All that matters to her is constantly eating. They hate Paleo diets and abhor vegetarianism. Their supreme desire to consume their world represents their inability to improve.

Fatties Don’t Give A Shit About Their Appearance

Consider the depressing blog People of Walmart. Walmart isn’t just representative of our mindless consumerist society or the entrenchment of corporations as the ultimate authority figures in America. It also shows how far the average American has fallen. People used to care about their appearance because they cared about the society around them and their contribution to it.

No more. Fatties roam the aisles of Walmart, armed with obesity-induced rage, and a wardrobe that reflects a person half their size. Their unwashed ass-cracks hang out at every other free food stand, their cellulite is disgustingly on display in the frozen pizza aisle and their guts hang over the check-out aisle because they are too fucking lazy to self check-out.

Following Poor Advice

Take this supplement! Go on this diet! Do that workout program! Buy this exercise equipment! Whether you are watching TV, reading a magazine, browsing the internet or walking down the street you are constantly bombarded with advice about how to lose weight.

The problem is most of the “advice” you see and hear is really advertising that is trying to make a profit from your excess body fat. Even if you ask people that obviously know how to stay in shape whether they are working out in your gym or members of your family their advice shares the same pitfall as reading a “4-page ad report” out of your latest copy of “Muscle & Fiction” magazine.

The primary reason why following poor advice is one of the top reasons people are fat and getting fatter is because the advice is so generic. The advice could apply to 99% of the population but if you fall in the 1% which it doesn’t apply to, you will waste your time, money and patience and of course, get fat.

What to Do if You Don’t Want to Get Fat

Educate yourself about physical fitness and weight loss from trusted sources. Whether you check out a textbook from the library, use online medical journals or take a fitness class, learning all the scientific information you need will take far less time than constantly falling short of achieving your goals due to following poor advice.

Psychological Eating

Everyone is familiar with this scene. Woman breaks up with her boyfriend and all hell breaks loose in the kitchen. Before you know it, there is an empty pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, a devoured cake and a box of chocolate bonbons.

Each case of emotional eating may not be as extreme as the prior example but they often add up. Eating out of sheer boredom is another form of emotional eating. Eating a whole bag of chips while watching the football game is another form of emotional eating.

For whatever reason people are getting fat and fat people are getting obese by eating because of psychological cravings rather than physiological hunger.

What to do if you Don’t want to Get Fat

Emotional eating is one of the most difficult things to avoid. Aside from the obvious & expensive possible solutions of regular visits to a psychotherapist and/or prescriptions, it is best to try to deal with your emotional eating the natural way.

Getting your life organized with a regular exercise program, sleeping patterns and healthy balanced diet will go a long way to curb your emotional eating. Having a clear understanding of how your diet and mentality affect your weight can have a huge influence in your life.

Consistently Skipping

Skipping breakfast not only robs you of your morning & afternoon energy it causes you to eat more throughout the day. Those that skip breakfast are far more likely to binge for dinner or reach in the fridge for that midnight snack.

In addition to skipping breakfast because “they don’t have time”, people often follow poor advice and skip breakfast purposely to exercise on an empty stomach first thing in the morning.

It may be breaking news to you but skipping breakfast before exercise in the morning will have the same effect as skipping breakfast just because “you don’t have enough time” which is overeating later in the day and getting fat or fatter;

What to do if you Don’t want to Get Fat

Pretty simple, eat breakfast! Anything is better than nothing but a hearty balanced breakfast is far superior to pop tarts or a glass of juice. Read more about the Top 5 Breakfast Foods

Consuming Excess Calories from Liquid

Sugar

Consuming calories from liquids cause people to get fat simply because it is so easy to consume calories via liquids. Excessive calories are increased even further when people consume high-calorie beverages.

While you may already know that sweetened coffees and teas are going to get you fat, even “healthy” drinks such as juices, fruit smoothies, and even milk are likely going to contribute to your unsightly bulges.

What to do if you Don’t want to Get

Drinks are mostly low in fiber which makes them easy to digest therefore not filling. Keep in mind a glass of orange juice has around the same amount of calories as 4 oranges and you can get an idea of the high likelihood of overeating. If you don’t want to get fat most nutrition experts recommend to virtually eliminate your liquid calorie consumption. Therefore for those who don’t want to get fat water is always going to be the beverage of choice.

Eating Out Too Much

There are several reasons why eating out has gotten people fat and are getting them faster. The primary reason is because 99% of the restaurants you will be eating out at will be preparing the food with 0 concern for your body weight.

The menus at restaurants are not created with caloric content nor your waistline in mind. Combine the fact that the portions are usually large and the food is prepared to taste good with added fat and sugars and you will be consuming astronomical amounts of calories which will get you fat.

What to do if you Don’t want to Get Fat

Controlling your dining out is one of the most difficult things to do. Try to avoid eating out by yourself and prepare your meals in advance. Since most people’s social life revolves around dinner parties, lunch meetings, and family meals avoidance is often not the best way to deal with it. Choosing lower calorie foods and drinks, ordering smaller portions and even not finishing all of your meals are ways to help you not get fat from eating out too much.

Consuming Excessive Caffeine

Drinks with Caffeine

You know the routine. You wake up in the morning and still feel exhausted. You drink your usual couple cups of coffee for some energy to start your day. After lunch later in the day, you become fatigued. Again you reach for a can of soda, a Red Bull or another cup of coffee to get you through the rest of the day. You get home from work and are tired again, so you watch TV, eat without exercising all day and go to bed thinking about drinking coffee the next morning.

This is the normal routine of countless caffeine addicted people throughout the world and it is why caffeine is a reason people are getting fatter. People who are healthy have little trouble regulating their insulin and blood glucose levels but it is not true for the overweight.

Overweight people, especially those with type II diabetes who consume caffeine have increasing problems regulating their insulin and blood glucose levels. This is accompanied by the excess production of stress hormones which may lead to adrenal fatigue and other problems.

Further compounding the problem, caffeine is the most popular weight loss drug and the primary ingredient in countless fat burning supplements. This causes people to associate caffeine with weight loss when in fact for most people, it is likely to cause them to get fatter. If you’d like to learn more about how caffeine affects the body, check out the caffeine and exercise article.

Fatties Are Often Feminists

Feminist

Considering how self-absorbed feminists are, it only makes sense for them and fatties to unite. This often takes the form of “fat acceptance,” which is always couched in feminism, which means it is meaningless. It claims people are not responsible for their personal choices, that other people exist to validate them or mollify their self-hatred as it inevitably bubbles up when McDonald’s runs out of nuggets.

Their feminism is simple extension—others exist to maintain their personal emotional state. And that state is never your responsibility. It was the gift of fatphobic patriarchy that privileges those who care about themselves over those who want to waste away in a fat-encased shell of a human body.

Fatties Smell Horrible

Studies have conclusively proven that fat people are the cause of global warming. In order to understand this mind-blowing epiphany, understand that fatties have a difficult time processing the livestock feed they slip down their gullets. When food hits their intestines, their body has no option but to expel the waste as gas. As such, unbelievable levels of methane and other dangerous gasses are emitted through their distressed and overworked anuses. These released gasses have contributed greatly to man-made global warming.

Even if you don’t believe in global warming, understand that that foul smell you encounter on the streets of America is a direct result of fat people. Since their bodies can’t handle the feed they force into their mouths, they expel offensive and putrid scents. The next time you encounter a foul smell, blame the nearest fatty. Or knock the drumstick out of their hand. Either way, you are doing the Lord’s work.

The Calorie Equation

The balance of calories stored and burned depends on your genetic makeup, your level of physical activity, and your resting energy expenditure (the number of calories your body burns while at rest). If you consistently burn all of the calories that you consume in the course of a day, you will maintain your weight. If you consume more energy (calories) than you expend, you will gain weight.

Excess calories are stored throughout your body as fat. Your body stores this fat within specialized fat cells (adipose tissue) either by enlarging fat cells, which are always present in the body or by creating more of them. If you decrease your food intake and consume fewer calories than you burn up, or if you exercise more and burn up more calories, your body will reduce some of your fat stores. When this happens, fat cells shrink, along with your waistline.