You don’t eat three meals a day because you have no money.
I don’t eat three meals a day because I want to lose weight.
We’re not the same.
I haven’t eaten three times a day in almost 20 years. Nothing to do with money - I just like black coffee in the morning and nothing else.
Breakfast is against nature and I am ready to die on this hill.
Try telling this to my kids…
Okay once again very slowly for the people in the back:
“Kids’ metabolism != adults’ metabolism”
But, but… Neoliberalism is for your good and anything socialist is bad.
It’s time to end neoliberalism.
Unless those meals are teeny tiny, 3 meals a day reliably means weight gain for me
Did you count the calories on those meals? Because my meals are always pretty much exactly on 450kcals, so that’s only 1350kcals. With a Banana, a proteine shake, milk coffees and a chocolate bar that would still be way below 2000kcals.
and here I am trying to eat 4-5 times a day to get >3000 calories in so I can gain weight.
Whole milk brother. It’s much easier to drink than eat calories
Yeah, that’s probably something I need to look into as I don’t really drink milk. Not sure if whole milk has ‘too much’ fat as I also don’t want to gain weight in a bad way. I’m looking to build muscle and get lean but nothing crazy like under 15% body fat. I’d be happy with 220 lbs and 20-25% body fat.
Peanut butter sandwiches can get really calorie dense rather quickly.
My go-to “energy sandwich” that I will eat before a day of surfing has crunchy peanut butter on both slices of bread, and dried apricots, cherries, cranberries, raisins, or banana slices, with some granola and a drizzle of maple syrup.
They’re delicious, and about 1000 calories per sandwich
That sounds like my kinda sandwich. I was thinking of drinking my calories via smoothie with oats, protein powder and almond butter with some frozen fruit like berries.
2-3 meals a day and gaining weight over here. Nuts are your best friend if you’re bulking.
I guess it matters how heavy you already are but 3 meals a day isn’t enough for me to hit 100KG. Nuts is something I do need to eat more often.
Just gotta up the calories per meal, other than the meal right before the gym in the morning, they’re always 1000+kcal for me.
I tried meal prepping and eating less per meal, but more often, but it just takes too much time out of the day personally.
100kg is quite the bulk though, what’s your starting point?
Nuts is something I do need to eat more often.
Unsalted cashew nuts is my personal go to.
I’m at 97KG right now and I started at 93KG but my starting weight was all fat (45%+) and zero muscle whereas now, I’m 4 months into a 5 day workout with weights so I’m reversing those numbers and trying to eat lean while getting to 100KG with half the amount of fat but I’m still around 35% but also 4KG heavier so I just need patience as I think what I’m doing is working.
Sounds like you’re doing great progress, keep the good work up! 💪
Thanks bro!
But remember: Communism is bad. Capitalism will make everyone well-off, any day now!
No, no, we must open borders and let everyone in so that big corporation do not have to pay more salaries, and so the minimum wage does not increase, and anyway only old people are a burden on the social welfare system right? We have enough doctors and surgeons, comrads.
Just tell us you’re scared of the brown people moving into your neighborhood and move on.
Of course, it’s even worse, I’m scared everytime I look in the mirror.
You should, you ARE scary.
Who eats three meals a day and why? I haven’t eaten three meals a day in years now, and I surely have more than enough money to afford food.
Hopefully it’ll help with the obesity epidemic.
I bet it will make it worst: the cheapest foods are the worst in terms of calories density.
They will get fat but malnourished.
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How will eating 3 junky meals be better than eating 2 of them?
Seems there’s a lot of latent anxiety about fat-shaming in this thread. Being fat is unhealthy, end of story.
If true, which it’s basically not, this is dumb distraction and click-bait.
So what is this “third meal” that so many people are supposedly giving up? Kebab? Big Mac and fries? Well surely that’s a win for everyone? Duh.
Sorry, but the reality is that poor people are not literally going hungry anywhere in Europe. Anyone who opens their eyes can see that. In almost every country in the world today, i.e. except the very poorest, poor people are fatter than rich people.
Completely inane and irrelevant and insulting to intelligence.
Addendum. To clarify, my point is that the problem with food today is the quality, the calories, the correlation with social inequality. It’s not the quantity and it’s certainly not the number of meals taken. Idiotic.
If only there was some way to confirm, short of only reading the headline, if theres more to this.
Oh, apparently theres further text in the article, for example 29% said their financial situation is precarious. 11% say they regularly dont eat enough, so they have enough food for their kids, 24% say theyre very concerned with coping with the increase in food prices. Oh and 12%, within the past 6 months, have skipped meals while hungry.
So the article sources survey data, you’re basing your claims on better primary data I take it? Or maybe secondary public health database datasets? Something else?
I don’t get this. My problem is being taken to be a fool.
How do you, personally, square these two observations:
- There’s a worldwide obesity epidemic affecting all but the poorest of countries, and within each society the fattest people tend to be the poorest ones
- Poor people - in rich Europe - are so poor that they can’t eat enough meals
Sorry, but something has to give. Which is it?
Addendum. Downvoting just proves you have no answer to the question.
Just because people can consume pure lard, and gain a tonne of weight, it doesnt mean theyre not malnutritioned. It also doesnt mean they dont experience hunger.
If you take a step back and consider the primary question that needs to be answered is it
a) What weight is a measure of hunger/poverty - people must be over x weight irrespective if health and were good. b) What food availability us a measure of hunger/poverty - people must have reasonable acess to a basic set of nutritional inputs and were good.
You seem to be following a - people are fat, so hunger doesnt exist
When it would be equally truthful, with a different conclusion to say - people are feeling hunger and experiencing malnutrition. When they can eat, what they can afford causes increased body mass without fulfilling their nutritional requirements. They also continue to feel hungry.
Treat food similar to medicine, the good benefit is the target, but there are also side effects. Cheaper food has a worse profile - fewer (not none) benefits, and higher side-effects.
Theres also more complexity to this - poverty isnt just $. Education, transportation, time, exhaustion, health. Many intersections and impacts that paint a persons life.
You are tying yourself in knots to pretend that that fat people are “hungry”. Why bother? Why not just use appropriate language, instead of mangling English like this?
I do not deny that there is a problem. I just hate being manipulated with language. It is dishonest, disingenuous, insulting. Fat people are not going hungry. Find another word.
Routine addendum. Downvoting does not make you right. It just proves you to be intolerant of other people’s opinions.
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Sure. I agree with all that.
I don’t agree with labelling something “hunger” which is not hunger in the way ordinary folks understand it. You are talking about addiction. Hunger is the thin end of the wedge for starvation and famine. That is a thing in the world, still. It has all but nothing to do with the West’s inequality-fuelled addiction problems, or at least is something very, very different.
I just wish we would use language more correctly.
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