Rubystars wrote:
"Gooserider" wrote in message
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"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
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On 5/10/04 2:53 PM, in article

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"Eva Whitley" wrote:


The morons at PETA have rolled out Veg Eye for the Fat Guy (he
http://goveg.com/feat/vegeye2/ ) targeting Ruben Studdard, Luciano
Pavarotti, Michael Moore, John Goodman, and John Madden.

Earth to PETA: it is possible to be fat and vegetarian. Don't they

know

any fat guy vegetarians? I could introduce them to some...

I tried a vegetarian diet for a couple of months before starting

low-cal.

I

*gained* weight. It's easy to gain weight on a vegetarian diet -

especially

a lacto-vegetarian diet.


Of course. It doesn't matter if the calories consumed are from ice cream

or

brussels sprouts. If one consumes more calories than one's body needs,
weight gain occurs. That's why I laugh at people who claim to "not eat

much"

but are still morbidly obese. A 300 pound person needs to eat 3000

cals/day

just to maintain.


You shouldn't laugh at them! There are reasons why a 300 lb person might not
eat much but still maintain or even gain weight.

They could have metabolic problems that cause them to gain even if they eat
like a normal person. Some people have a genetic disposition toward being
fat that's hard to get past.

Sorry. This is simply not true. Foods have known
caloric values. Various forms of exercise and activity
burn up fairly well known amounts of calories.
Metabolism is NOT a constant for any individual: if
you exercise more and are otherwise more active, you
burn more calories. If you burn more calories than you
take in, you lose weight. It's a medical and logical
NECESSITY.

Also some people don't have any natural
mechanisms to help them know what a portion size looks like, so they have to
actually learn it before they can control their intake.

That is not difficult, provided one REALLY wants to
know it.


Besides, a lot of people who are big do cut down their intake of food a lot
in order to try to be healthier, and it doesn't always work.

If you cut your caloric intake to something less than
your caloric expenditure, you NECESSARILY will lose
weight. The caloric intake and the caloric expenditure
are highly variable, and people who cut their caloric
intake but don't lose weight NECESSARILY are still
consuming more in calories than they burn.

The people I
see buying low calorie food, fat free food, etc. are usually fat people. I
went through a phase where I was trying that "Stop the Insanity" diet where
you can eat a normal amount of food but everything had to be lower than 20%
of calories from fat. I wasn't eating a lot but I didn't lose much weight at
all.

Add to this the contradictory claims made by various "Experts" on what
should be eaten, how much, and when, and it can be extremely hard to figure
it all out.

Besides, food is only part of the picture. They need to exercise too. If
they tried exercising, they'd burn more calories no matter how much they
ate.

-Rubystars