my eating habits..

[dmw319]

i wonder if they will ever catch up with me?

I am 21 years old, im 5"10 and weigh 155 pounds. I have always eaten like a complete and utter slob. i dont eat healthy food, and i always eat.. A TON! however, none of the weight ever stays on and i never get sick to my stomach due to what i eat. even as i write to you now.. im eating pizza, a hotdog, a stack of oreos, choclate milk and a recees cup or two. i know the reason i can do all of this is due to my high metabolism.. and that most women hate the fact i can eat as much food as humanly possible and not gain a pound... but i sure do enjoy it... i just wonder how much longer it will last.

[Cruise Director]

Be careful. Metabolism can change overnight and you will be stuck with not only the bad habits, but the pounds that come with them. Change the habits now and you'll never have to worry.

[jess]

I use to have that kind of metabolism too. I use to actually have to drink protein shakes with my meals to make me gain weight.
Now I really have to watch what I eat. Granted having babies probably didn't help out my metabolism, but age has a lot to do with it too.
The sad part is (with men especially) you won't even notice you're putting on weight until you've gained 50lbs.

[Billyman]

Yeah well I'm 34, 5'7" and a 155 pounds.

Does this mean I'm short and fat or that you're tall and lean?

Eating, although it is a necessity, it is more so a habit. Change you're habits before it's too late.

[Cruise Director]

You've only got me by 20 lbs. now instead of 220 lbs. :D

And I'm 3" taller. :D :D

[mute]

You are going to be one fat mother fucker.

[dmw319]

You are going to be one fat mother fucker.

thats what im thinking.... haha

[SimpleSimon]

i wonder if they will ever catch up with me?

I am 21 years old, im 5"10 and weigh 155 pounds. I have always eaten like a complete and utter slob. i dont eat healthy food, and i always eat.. A TON! however, none of the weight ever stays on and i never get sick to my stomach due to what i eat. even as i write to you now.. im eating pizza, a hotdog, a stack of oreos, choclate milk and a recees cup or two. i know the reason i can do all of this is due to my high metabolism.. and that most women hate the fact i can eat as much food as humanly possible and not gain a pound... but i sure do enjoy it... i just wonder how much longer it will last.

Good luck with that. At your age I was much the same - I ate anything I wanted, as much as I wanted, whenever I wanted. I was 6' tall and weighed 182 lbs, and never worried about gaining weight.

At 27 I weighed 240, same eating habits. At 30 I weighed 330 lbs, with the same eating habits, but had no energy and caught every damned cold, flu, whatever was going around. I got pneumonia constantly (5 bouts with it in 3 years), I was damned unhappy with myself, and the world I inhabited. My marriage ended, I lost my kids, my life was very much a miserable hell.

I ended up in severe clinical depression, which in a sense saved my life. I quit eating anything at all, drank water constantly, and lost 71 lbs in 42 days of near constant movement (I slept in 90 min snatches 5-6 times a day). When the hunger finally returned I began eating a high protein diet, but not much at all. By 6 months after hitting bottom I weighed 207 lbs. Not a life journey I'd reccomend to anyone.

Change your habits now, is my suggestion. The behaviour you describe is self-destructive in the extreme, and it will almost certainly have enormously negative consequences in your life if it goes unaltered.

[dmw319]

yea i know i gotta be more careful with my eating habits. yet, i do excersize a good bit, which i forgot to mention in my first post. oh well, once its starts catching up to me ill have to watch it more carefully.

[Escape Artist]

Hell with 'exercise' - the placebo of the masses. Sounds like me drinking for psychological improvement.

Do what Simon sez - less calorie intake, and smarter choices for what you eat. Go hungry after eating; make sure you've consumed what your body needs.

In short - eat less than what you burn on a daily basis, with a severe bent towards nutritional fulfillment - and you will lose weight without ending up in a hospital.

Got health insurance? See someone at a hospital and have them outline a diet plan and refer you to someone else who knows about exercising and will keep you to a regimented plan.

If not? The Interweb is here - and I'm sure there's people like a couple I know who would do it for free and personal satisfaction.

In my experience, it is most often what you consume that does you in. Lifestyle factors result from the deleterious effects.

Now get to work, and best of luck. :) It's your own ass on the line.

[jules]

Quit smoking so much pot and living on munchie food.

Seriously, besides getting fat, yuu'll probably wind up with an awful lot of health problems that won't go away any time soon.

I work full time for jack-shit along with juggling other commitments and responsibilities, and I still have the time and money to eat one home-cooked, healthy meal per day. Frozen vegetables, cooking a box of rice/pasta once per week.... there are lots of easy ways to eat well at least *sometimes*. And it makes a huge difference.

Whole grains, fruits, and vegetables are your friends. High fructose corn syrup is not. Replace white sugar with honey or maple syrup, avoid white flour. Try not to eat too much meat. A very simple rule of thumb is that the more processed it is, the worse it is likely to be for you.

I broke free of a horrible diet before I left high school, and I'm far healthier for it. I have the same high metabolism and so had a bad attitude about it, until I realized that "being healthy" means a whole hell of a lot more than not being fat. (In fact, I've read studies lately showing that surface-skinny people who eat poorly & diet to lose weight are just as unhealthy on the insides as surface-fat people--- it streaks through the muscles and organs and disrupts things the same way).

[Asmodeus]

Hell, don't look at me. 6'5" 325lbs, who can eat either a rack of ribs 3 times a day or munch on granola all day like a hippy but still be basically the same weight.

Meat= good.
Veggies= hardly ever and only in small amounts.
Fruits= almost never except for the errant orange juice.

[Escape Artist]

Disagree with Jul. God help me - the kid is smart.

Avoid sugars. Period. It doesn't come in a fleshy ball from some produce section that I dragged pallets of the crap to, with tungsten lighting and all that jazz - don't eat it.

Refined sugars are just that - whether by tree, bee, or distillery of sorts. Not worth it. People have a helluva addiction to that - look at the sales for Chef Boyardee ravioli for "baby snack treats" - silly crap.

Learn to cook. Mind you, I ain't at rocket-science level just yet - but I can make a stereotypical dish and have it be healthy and portion controlled and so forth. And if you're a walking fridge like I see at the store - go away.

Apologies to humanity - cruel, but effective.

I don't cook fuckin' buffets here - i'm half broke on a good day. :p

That said, use the same mindset. My sister had it right - food is fuel to keep you going. She's about as big as I am (100 pounds and not a tough guy? making nails and screws? Impossible!) She works and worries about finances and finally - after nearly 24 years now she's thinking. Not "I need to be thin!" - I can't be thin anymore and I'm stuck with this guy after this long! - was her thing - but - "I gotta keep going, no matter what! I need \muscle now! Am I too old to build it up? I have two kids!" was her philosophy. Retort for that - don't even try.

Well? you gonna keep going or fall into some damnable depressive fit whilst bitching, whining, and going after some real heavy porn - or will you just start running one day, lifting a month later, and eventually deciding you are where you want to be?

Your call, dude/dudette. *huge muscle spasm thinger*

Do *something* though - and if you don't get great results? I really can't get past 110 pounds here. I'm a guy. Was 128 in Oregon. BOOOOO, says I!

Sucks, doesn't it!

[Pinecrika]

30 was my magic age. One day my clothes didn't fit and I relized I lost my six pack and got a brand new spare tire. I lost it all again, but at a hell of a price.

[Escape Artist]

All things considered - losing weight is a lot easier than gaining it.

Losing it means you burn a lot more calories than you consume - usually with an absurdly lazy and potentially mean lifestyle.

Gaining it means you eat just about everything you can, lift weights until you feel like death - and then go to work. And then work three times as hard as everyone else.

To hell with eating smarter. Tons of businesses offering you crappy this and that and the other thing that promises lots of stuff - good luck suing them for false advertising.

If what you buy doesn't come in shrinkwrap - you don't need it. You have to cook stuff - it's cheap, and vaguely easy, and as compared to mickey d's?

Bah. You aren't far off from where you should be - do your own math. Height/weight shit - yer fine. So - err - what's yer prob, exactly?

Maybe yer personality sucks, I don't know - but your weight is fine.

People my height aim for around 145. Some tack on 20 more pounds and give up.

Far as I know, yer fine - dunno otherwise - doubt i'll hear many arguments. Personality wins over fucking weight anyhow - take it from the skinniest guy on THT.

Have fun. Bye. Go get laid already.

[Cruise Director]

All things considered - losing weight is a lot easier than gaining it.

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I woudl say that depends on the individual.

[dmw319]

haha wow lots of responses since the last time i was on the board.

jules - i dont smoke pot.
esape artist - im a cook at applebees.
pinecrika - funny post, made me laugh

thanks everyrone for their input. in all reality, i think im ok for now. i do enough excersizing to compensate for my high metabolism, but later down the road of the excersizing starts to go, ill have to change my eating habits.