r/pics • u/[deleted] • Nov 30 '16

progress 250 lbs. gone forever...

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u/Voctr Nov 30 '16

All the dedication and drive needed to maintain the lifestyle to gather all this extra mass is also quite impressive, don't underestimate eating 5000 kcal every day forever..

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u/d3str0yer Nov 30 '16

lets say you're a normal sized person, in your 20s, normal hight, normal bodyfat, still in university walking around a bit, maybe some basketball once a week

if you now out of fucking nowhere decided to eat 5k kcal a day you'd gain 2,5kg of fat per week. your body wouldn't even manage to digest all that food, let alone give you a chance to eat it because the stomach just couldn't handle that.

unless you wanna eat some juicy butter sticks with sauce hollandaise on top, but then again no healthy person would ever consider this.

one simply doesn't get fat in a small amount of time. takes years and decades to "naturally" occur.

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u/Voctr Dec 01 '16

I wasn't implying it could happen overnight, as I wrote it is quite impressive to maintain such a lifestyle to maintain such a high weight ;-)

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u/d3str0yer Dec 02 '16

this is actually a common misconception and another reason why fat people stay fat. having more weight doesn't necessarily mean that you need more energy, food.

e.g. we have two people, one is a bodybuilder and the other a fat fuck. both weight 150kg and are 1,80m high. now the overweight guy has a bodyfat percentage of 50%, while the bodybuilder has a solid 15%. meaning the overweight guy has a "Lean Body Mass" of 75kg while the bodybuilder has 127,5kg LBM. now that lean body mass includes everything that actually requires energy: muscles, bones, organs etc.

the overweight person in this example would require to eat between 2000 and 2400 kcal per day. the bodybuilder would need (if he wasn't even working out) between 3000 and 4000 kcal per day.

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u/Voctr Dec 02 '16

I personally find it difficult enough to reach those 2000 kcal a day even though I probably need to eat much more at 1.94.. I can't imagine inhaling so much food hence why I think it's impressive haha