"That's why Americans are so fat."

[Twirling Time]

I watched a guy in a press box a couple of Saturdays ago eat five - yes 5 - Chick-fil-A sandwiches.

On the spectrum of bad food, Chick-fil-A is probably the best bad choice.

 

[Cosmo]

Even so, five CFA sandwiches will set you back around 2,500 calories, and that's before you start dipping them in sauces that are mostly pure sugar.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Was the guy a land monster or one of those forkers who can house five cfa sandwiches and still weigh 165 pounds?

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Don't disagree with anything on here, but will add two lifestyle changes of the past 30 years:

— people don't smoke nearly as much. Nicotine increases metabolism and suppresses eating.

— people now drink high calorie beers. A six pack of Coors Light during a football game is a lot less calories than a six pack of an IPA.

My wife and I have cut back on our drinking in the past few months, and we both have lost a ton of weight that we "couldn't" lose before.

 

[BTExpress]

Several years ago, I saw a menu from a german restaurant that listed its portion sizes as Small, Medium, Large and American.

Some restaurants have things listed as appetizers that I can't even finish, let alone follow it with the main meal.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Several years ago, I saw a menu from a german restaurant that listed its portion sizes as Small, Medium, Large and American.

Some restaurants have things listed as appetizers that I can't even finish, let alone follow it with the main meal.

Yeah, but you weigh like 50 pounds.

My favorite cheesesteak place back home, Larry's, has what is called the "belly filler," which is just a fancy way of saying "two cheesesteaks mushed together into one giant roll."

And, on the menu, they even made a point of reminding you that, despite the huge sandwich, you still shouldn't forget about all their greasy disgusting sides.

When I was a kid, I'd watch my dad eat a belly filler the same way people watched John Candy eat the Old '96er in The Great Outdoors.

 

[Driftwood]

Was the guy a land monster or one of those forkers who can house five cfa sandwiches and still weigh 165 pounds?

He was big and fat.
The whole thing made me mad on two levels: nobody needs to eat five sandwiches, and when it's a spread for a bunch of people who are working, don't be a douche.
But as the old saying goes, the big hogs eat first at the trough.

 

[goalmouth]

Sugar is the devil. Read "Sugar Blues" and you'll find out why. Learn about the Glycemic Index for foods.

White flour is the devil. It's empty calories and metabolizes like sugar. Plus, you'll eat smaller portions of whole grains, which metabolize slower so you're not hungry right after. If you eat a lot of empty carbs, try to follow them with grains or other slow burners, to "flatten the tail" of your rising blood sugar, which makes you hungry.

Eat the foods of your ancestors, before processing was a thing.

Don't eat a lot late at night.

Stop forking drinking so much gosh darn alcohol. And try not to substitute food when you do. Years ago I had dinner with a colleague, who described what she admitted was her awful diet. I guessed correctly that she was a recovering alcoholic.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

He was big and fat.
The whole thing made me mad on two levels: nobody needs to eat five sandwiches, and when it's a spread for a bunch of people who are working, don't be a douche.
But as the old saying goes, the big hogs eat first at the trough.

He didn't bring them himself? He took five from a stack meant for everyone?

 

[Driftwood]

He didn't bring them himself? He took five from a stack meant for everyone?

Yep

 

[dixiehack]

Eat the foods of your ancestors, before processing was a thing.

My ancestors got plopped down into barely marked mountainside graves in their 40s and 50s, if not sooner. They can have my share of pinto beans and cornbread.

 

[Driftwood]

My ancestors got plopped down into barely marked mountainside graves in their 40s and 50s, if not sooner. They can have my share of pinto beans and cornbread.

That's why I learned to cook at an early age. It was a regular a couple of nights a week. When I was told "eat it or starve" I went to the kitchen and fixed something else.
The only way I will eat soup beans is if I'm a prisoner of war, and only then after all the rats and bugs are gone.