14 Habits That Make You Fat

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 am

It may be the wrong time of year to think about how fat you are -or maybe it’s the best time of year to change your habits before you put the pounds on! HealthAssist lists 14 habits you want to examine to turn your health around and either lose weight or avoid becoming fat. Some you are familiar with, but others may be news. Who knew the way you dress makes a difference in how active you are? Link -Thanks, Karen!

Tags: fitness, health, obesity

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Gail Pink
Dec 18th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I think weighing yourself makes you fat. Also, owning a scale.
Miss Cellania
Dec 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I kinda like to think that way,too, Gail. I threw my scales out a few years ago.
Alana
Dec 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I have issues with number 7 on that list. Yes, fat people are more likely to have fat friends, but that in no way proves a causal relationship. In my experience, black people are more likely to have black friends. Does that mean that being African American is “socially contagious”? No, it just means that people tend to hang out with people who are similar to them. Fat people hang out with other fat people because they know that’s at least one relationship in which their size will not be harshly judged and criticized.
Oliver
Dec 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Gail,

These are based on correlative statistics. Owning a scale and weighing yourself regularly actually correlates to weighing less, not more.

Alana,

I think you’re right. None of these are necessarily a causal relationship.
Gauldar
Dec 18th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Alana, makes alot of sence. I’ve dealth with depression over the years and the friends I have made have been people who have gone through the mental health system. Not only is there a sympathetic connection, but also one based on comfort.
Rocky Rook
Dec 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
The small, permanent changes in your lifestyle are what keeps the weight off. This list has the top changes in my opinion.
sigh
Dec 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
#15 Reading too much neatorama.
Rob
Dec 18th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
I think scales are a good thing once you get over the initial shock of having an unexpected weight. If you weigh yourself daily you get a direct indicator of what is making you gain weight before you actually notice it. If you see your weight going up consistently over the course of a week, it’s much easier to isolate what you’re doing wrong than figuring it out a month later when you suddenly notice your clothes don’t fit.
Jenny
Dec 18th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
ive had this exact list bookmarked on my computer for years now.. haha funny.
Shen
Dec 18th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
haha, yes, very funny indeed.
especially if your like me and only do not do about 3 things in there and remains as skinny as a pick. : )
Alex
Dec 19th, 2008 at 12:53 am
#16 Writing for Neatorama, sadly.
Alejo Hausner
Dec 19th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
What a lot of prejudicial nonsense. This is just the old sins of gluttony (eating too much makes you fat) and sloth (inactivity makes you fat) in disguise. In other words, it’s moralizing presented as science.

Come on, people, how about some real science for a change? I just finished reading Gary Taubes’ book, and after an exhaustive (and exhausting) amount of actually reading the scientific literature, he concludes that modern diet advice is terribly unscientific.

For example, the best honest research has shown, again and again, that exercise (“burning calories”) DOES NOT lead to weight loss. The body is not an automobile with a fixed energy budget. If you burn more energy, your body will demand that you eat more to compensate.

Also eating less DOES NOT lead to weight loss. Yes, starving yourself SEVERELY (a.k.a. “standard dieting”) will initially cause loss, but your body will compensate by lowering your metabolism.

It just doesn’t make evolutionary sense that changes in energy expenditure and energy intake will affect energy storage. The body adjusts.

What a lot of bullshit.

Alejo
Epicanis
Dec 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I don’t know about that – for me at least, exercise really is the only effective weight-loss method. In particular, frequent strength-training exercise. I’m not entirely sure why.

I would have to agree that mere “calorie counting” is a gross and misleading oversimplification though. Human metabolism seems to be a mind-blowingly complicated process.

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