Banty writes:

I don't think it's truly physical appetite so much as expectation. Fat folk are
eating for pleasure and entertainment value beyond their caloric needs, but,
especially in a society as ours which jacks up expectations, consider it
reasonable to eat yea much and yae many times a day.

I agree.

Four meals. Glycemic treats. For an inactive elder. She gained weight. Well
duh.

Fat people tend to dramatically underestimate exactly how much they
actually eat, and exactly how many calories there are in what they eat.
It's hard to say how much of this error is deliberate and how much is
inadvertent, but the error is often very large.

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