FDA Smaller portions

[quteasabutton]

Originally Posted by freakray

Hate them now, but metabolisms slow down and they will put weight on.

noooooooo i refuse... i'm perfectly content with my chocolate for breakfast. it's workin great for me.

[fredjacksonsan]

Originally Posted by quteasabutten

noooooooo i refuse... i'm perfectly content with my chocolate for breakfast. it's workin great for me.

Hahaha.....good for you.

Just remember that at about 25, then at 30, then at 40 your metabolism changes and gets slower. Exercise has less effect than it did, and food has more. So you have to make adjustments as you age to the amount you eat and the amount you exercise....or guess what? You'll get fat.


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And of course this entire discussion is based on food intake vs metabolism and exercise. There are those people with glandular conditions or some other disorder that can't help but put on weight - and this thread in no way applies to them or is meant as an insult.

[beef_bourito]

i think it's stupid that the gov't is doing this for many of the same reasons. and i know a guy who would eat more than me, probably 1.5 or 2 times as much, and he weighed between 120 and 130, if that, and was aroun 5'10. i weigh about 190 right now and i'm around 5'8.5". I also work out twice a day 5 days a week for rowing, and i haven't lost weight since i started. of course i am slimming down but im putting on muscle.

the point is, different people have different metabolisms. the government shouldn't tell restaurants how much they can serve, they should educate people on how to eat properly. if anything, they should make certain fast foods illegal, i wouldn't miss them, because they're aiding this fattening country, well our fattening countries.

[2.2 Straight six]

i'm 5'10" an 145lb, i never stop eating but my wieght doesn't change, im no exercise freak either.

i dont think the gov't should restrict portion sizes, what about those who can take the food without the unpleasant effects?

personally, apart from glandular conditions, i think people only get over weight from a lack of self control. well, in many cases. i understand that some may have slow metabolisms but i honestly believe that it's majorly a self-control issue. like giving up smoking. i gave up by just stopping, sure it's hard but it can be done. it's all about willpower and control.

[ThatRoundHeadedKid]

that's what doggybags are meant for...jeeze :rollseyes:

Now I have to go to restaurant, expect to get a nice 42 ounce porterhouse steak, and find out mashed potatoes dont come with the meal any more

i swear, people keep getting more stupid by the minute

[79Bandit]

Land of the free.

[Polygon]

I really don't care because I think fast food, for the most part, tastes like shit. Besides, the portions have grown so large over the years anyhow. Who needs a 1,400 calorie burger and a 44oz soda? Someone asked what kind of message is this sending to people; it is saying you're a fat shit, why don't you stop stuffing your face for a second? The fact of the matter is that if you don't burn more calories than you take in then you're going to gain weight.

It's that simple.

Blaming an eating disorder, of any kind, on genetics is a freaking joke. It is all in your head it has nothing to do with genetics.

[Jimster]

Honestly, would it hurt to downsize the average American portion? Whenever I go there I'm blown away by just how much food is given to me.

EDIT: Polygon has it 100% correct. Blaming genetics transaltes to you making excuses for being a lazy over-eating soft-cock pile of shit. Most of my family is more portly than normal, it even shows in my bone structure (Big boned and solid), but I still carry sweet Fuck all fat around with me simply because I exercise and can control myself.

[speediva]

So, I was discussing this with my family the other day, and it came to me... okay, so I don't usually eat all that I am presented with so I take the rest of it home with me...

but for those who can't manage to do this, what's to stop them from ordering an extra appetizer and dessert since they are "still hungry" from this new, smaller portion?

[skibum1111]

Originally Posted by saturntangerine

but for those who can't manage to do this, what's to stop them from ordering an extra appetizer and dessert since they are "still hungry" from this new, smaller portion?

Their wallets. Anyway, I've noticed eating habits are changing often. I manage a deli in a grocery store, you should see some of the crap people buy. Cheese is loaded with salt and fat, really not good for you, and I sell tons of it along with the low salt low fat meats. What's the point? If you are going to blow it, do it right, don't complain that you can't loose the weight when your eating habits don't help. I'm 6 feet even, 210 pounds and can't drop any lower. What I have found is the more I go to the gym, ride my bike, ski, dive, do whatever, the weight I am carrying gets redistributed. The only problem I am running into with this is my thighs are to the size now that pants that fit are getting hard to find, not because of my waist but because of my quads.

[Chiquae07]

this is crazy. this wont help anything at all. what they need to do is increase the price on those 'goodies' from the gas station with all thse candies for 25 cents. that is what they should aim at, not the adults since the adults ususally wont change for anything, but if u start out with the younger ones, then u could start to have a revolution. i personally dont see how this will effect me since i now eat 4-5 meals a day as im trying to put on more muscle and slim down some. spreading out your meals will make u not hungry. this alone will save the american people.

[beef_bourito]

don't bother with changing prices, educate the kids in school and don't offer any bad snacks in school. instead of pizza days have something less fattening, instead of cookies, have cheese and crackers (no not white people). chances are that adults won't change their eating habbits, at least not on a large scale, so you have to get the kids to change. the problem is the culture we live in where everyone goes by "more is better", have a bigger house, more cars, huge yard, more food, all that kind of stuff. untill the culture as a whole changes their eating habbits the states will be known as a fat country.

[windowpane]

Originally Posted by beef_bourito

don't bother with changing prices, educate the kids in school and don't offer any bad snacks in school. instead of pizza days have something less fattening, instead of cookies, have cheese and crackers (no not white people). chances are that adults won't change their eating habbits, at least not on a large scale, so you have to get the kids to change. the problem is the culture we live in where everyone goes by "more is better", have a bigger house, more cars, huge yard, more food, all that kind of stuff. untill the culture as a whole changes their eating habbits the states will be known as a fat country.

EXACTLY, get rid of the junk in schools, soda/candy machines, and at home so kids have a healthy start from the beginning. It gets worse when your raised on crap and get older, less active, and still eat crap. What happens when you graduate highschool, you no longer have to take gym and you start driving, if you were into sports your not going to be doing them as often unless you goto college and join up with it there. And shortly after that you can start drinking your calories and not doing any physcial activities like you did when you were younger, plus by 25-30 your metabolism slows down.

On the portions it is not really the typical portion your talking about in a real restaurant, the portions that are really bad are the fast food ones because they are loadded with calories and fat. How about the super big gulp or whatever, I saw a tv show with a overweight man w/ diabetes cause he drank a huge pitcher of soda for lunch everyday, and said they went through 2-3 bottles of soday a day, him and his obese wife.

The other portions are for garbage and they are small, ever look at the recommend servings per a bag of chips or cookies its something like 6-8 chips or 2-3 cookies and there are probably 200 calories for those 2-3 cookies and 140+ for the 6-8 chips.

[Nicole8188]

I'm 5'4", 120. I don't work out or anything, I'm naturally thin.

But I also don't eat much. I eat really small portions throughout the day. And I eat good food, no fast food or soda or stuff with a lot of sugar. Except chocolate. I eat a lot of dark chocolate.

I agree with all those that said we should focus on the eating habits of younger children, they're the ones that it's going to be easier to instill changes in.

[ThatRoundHeadedKid]

Originally Posted by Nicole8188

I'm 5'4", 120. I don't work out or anything, I'm naturally thin.

But I also don't eat much. I eat really small portions throughout the day. And I eat good food, no fast food or soda or stuff with a lot of sugar. Except chocolate. I eat a lot of dark chocolate.

I agree with all those that said we should focus on the eating habits of younger children, they're the ones that it's going to be easier to instill changes in.

i get a gut feeling that you're going to be a great mom