Eating junk food without putting on weight

I've weighed about 11.5 stone all my adult life.

I dont eat much junk food. I dont want to. Pizza maybe once a week, burgers or fast food once a week too. In my early 40's i had my cholesterol checked and it was really bad so I spent a year getting it to healthy levels. Thats done now.

I exercise, I go to the gym at least four times a week. I take my vitamins and minerals and I dont get sick. touch wood.

DjFlin wrote: »

The thing people need to remember is that, whether or not you can eat crap without gaining weight is, do you really want to? Like, I COULD get take away every night, but I'd much rather have a nice homemade meal. Same goes for general snacking, I'd take some crisp lettuce over chocolate most days, that crunch cant be beat!

Eh yes, junk food tastes 1,000 times better then rabbit food!

I've just turned 30 and up to 9 months ago I lived on junk food (never ate fruit or veg and would very rarely even eat a sambo), luckily I never paid the price for the fact that my insides were probably yellow

Somethings definitely happened since turning 30 though as I'm starting to put on weight, im now trying to cut down on chips and chocolate and walking a good bit more but so far Its not having any effect :mad:

Abi wrote: »

Enjoy the heart attack :pac:

But the question was can you eat whatever crap you like and not put on any weight. I can but I (mostly) don't.

I get the whole "yeah ok for you ya skinny rip, look at ya" if I even broach the topic of weight around other women especially so I tend to keep my mouth shut about weight.
God knows what'd happen if I ever said "it's great to be skinny and be able to stuff my face with whatever I like and not gain a pound" around my cousins who are nearly all fatties :pac:

I try to eat healthily, keep fit and keep my cholesterol in check so hope I'll avoid the heart attack!

Greyfox wrote: »

Eh yes, junk food tastes 1,000 times better then rabbit food!

Not the junk food you get from McD's or Burgerking IMO. Chips I like an odd time and a home-made burger is nice but I prefer my rabbit food

Greyfox wrote: »

Somethings definitely happened since turning 30 though as I'm starting to put on weight, im now trying to cut down on chips and chocolate and walking a good bit more but so far Its not having any effect :mad:

Power walking or ordinary?
You should be slightly out of breath when you walk to get aerobic fitness levels up and start burning calories. If you're able to carry on a conversation with ease you're not walking fast enough, but if you're totally out of breath it's equally bad and it's not aerobic anymore.
Do you cycle? I find cycling great for staying fit and a half hours cycling at even 10mph burns off over 250 calories. Great for heath health too.

Greentopia wrote: »

Power walking or ordinary?
You should be slightly out of breath when you walk to get aerobic fitness levels up and start burning calories. If you're able to carry on a conversation with ease you're not walking fast enough, but if you're totally out of breath it's equally bad and it's not aerobic anymore.

Also when they talk about 20 minutes of exercise a day.

That means 20 minutes of sweating. If it takes you ten minutes to get warmed up and sweaty then you need 40mins of exercise.

If you take in less calories than you burn you will lose weight, its not possible not to. So if you're not losing then maybe you're not burning the calories off adequately.

People who go at it half hearted or incorrectly and then get disheartned or discouraged just need a little more guidance, if you're only losing a little dont get discouraged, you're on the right track.

InTheTrees wrote: »

If you take in less calories than you burn you will lose weight, its not possible not to. So if you're not losing then maybe you're not burning the calories off adequately.

Yes, it's a simple equation: take in more calories than you burn off and you gain weight, less calories and you lose weight.

But people like to not think about that and make all sorts of excuses why they can't lose weight.
There are legitimate reasons of course for some people why they can't lose it like the medication they're on (e.g. anti-depressants) or certain illnesses that makes you put on weight, or the infamous glands (which is much rarer than people seem to think), but they're in the minority and it's mostly just a question of eating right, cutting down on the junk and getting out there and exercising until the pounds start to come off. If it's not happening you're either/and not burning enough calories relative to what you're taking in, or you're deluding yourself about the amount of junk food, chocolate etc. you're eating.

There's no short cut to losing weight unless you go for the drastic option of gastric band surgery.

Abi wrote: »

Yeah, I know what was asked, but I can't seperate the fact that it's unhealthy to eat crap regularly. It's hardly off-topic =/

Wasn't saying it's off topic and I agree with your point. Even though I'm skinny I know if I was to eat loads of junk food I may not put on weight but I'd still be putting my health at risk from heart disease, diabetes etc.

Greentopia wrote: »

Power walking or ordinary?
You should be slightly out of breath when you walk to get aerobic fitness levels up and start burning calories. If you're able to carry on a conversation with ease you're not walking fast enough, but if you're totally out of breath it's equally bad and it's not aerobic anymore.
Do you cycle? I find cycling great for staying fit and a half hours cycling at even 10mph burns off over 250 calories. Great for heath health too.

Ordinary....which is where I'd say i'm going wrong! haven't cycled in years but would consider that, im going to sign up for that dublin bikes thingy and see how I find cycling then...Its either that or attempt the couch potato to 5k plan, I think cycling would be a better way to start

A lot of people like to believe that they are anomalies and can eat 'any amount of junk' without putting on weight when the reality is that they overestimate how much they are actually eating. The vast majority of these seem to be girls who like to claim that they 'eat like a horse' when they obviously don't. The fact of the matter is that most of these people are delusional / liars. There are obviously some people who can eat plenty without putting on weight but they are rare.

I can lose weight very easily and have to eat quite a bit to put on weight. Usually I eat when I'm not hungry because if I didn't I would lose weight. If I'm busy and eat just 3/4 meals a day I will lose weight. I don't attribute this to me being some sort of genetic oddity but more to the fact that I don't eat much crap so the foods I eat aren't that calorie dense e.g. porridge for breakfast, filling but not packed with calories.

Usually people who claim to eat a lot of crap look like crap because they don't eat half as much as they think they do and as a result just look like rotten rakes. Those who are capable of eating a lot of crap really shouldn't because it's seriously unhealthy.

I've been the same weight my whole life, i'm quite thin and eat junk all the time, doesn't matter if i eat loads of food or nothing at all, weight wouldnt change. Which is a shame because i know a few people like me and we'd all like to gain a little bit of weight but it seems impossible too!

had Domino's last night, had a fry this morning, just finished an oven pizza. if anything I'll be thinner than when i started out