Esel wrote: » 8 lbs is a good weight for a baby.
lawlolawl wrote: » Irish people are by and large lazy as fook and will only eat right and exercise if they have something like a wedding coming up or if it's the beginning of the year and they are "doing Operation Transformation" Plus, the boom-time mentality of 'excess in everything' never fully went away during the recession and it is already starting to come back with a bang.
Bongalongherb wrote: » But there is another thing though with putting on the flab, and that is beer. I eat reasonably healthily myself but I have a fetish with beer and that really does put the pounds on after time. So just because you might see an over-weight guy walking up the road doesn't mean he eats the country dry.
FlowerPower1 wrote: » It's funny because I'm pregnant at the minute and had my anamoly scan last week. The midwife was giving out that babies are just getting bigger and bigger with more complications than she's ever seen in her career, obviously making her job more difficult.
biko wrote: » "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"
Broken Hearted Road wrote: » I think something else that plays a part is a long, busy and hectic schedule. I've been on the big size since my teens. I was a size 14 to 16 in secondary school. I'm now a size 20. So what changed for me? Work. I'm on the go from early morning til late evening and I'd be lucky if I'd be home at 8pm. When you're in home so late there's little time to yourself before before you fall into bed to do it all over again the next day. Weekends then are catching up with jobs around the house that should have been done all week. And that's weekends when I'm free. Some weekend I work. I have an aunt who is obese too and she has similar busy and hectic schedule all week long. A grocery shop for me, doesn't contain junk except for white bread for toast and sandwiches. Fast food and take away - I never go there. A lot of my diet consists of eggs - for breakfast and it's great for dinner too - like scrambled eggs for dinner. That's if I'm not too tired for dinner. There's definitely room for improvement in my diet like I enjoy a can of coke a day for a boost.
VisibleGorilla wrote: » This is simply making excuses for the excess amount of calories you eat on a daily basis to maintain a weight that has you at size 20. It's pure and utter laziness, simple as that.
SarahMollie wrote: » Little harsh. Its true of course that her diet is going wrong somewhere but I think its often lack of knowledge thats causing a real problem. There are lots of foods out there masquerading as healthy when in fact they're laced with sugar. Cereal bars, anyone?
One More Toy wrote: » We win! Well done lads couldn't have done it without you
SarahMollie wrote: » We've come from being the skinniest in western Europe (granted, half starved) to where we are today.
VisibleGorilla wrote: » Perhaps harsh but true. I've had periods of excess weight gain throughout my life and it was caused by nothing but my own laziness. I'd agree lack of knowledge can cause it but we live in the information age, everything need to be known is at your fingertips for free. Calories out > Calories in = Weight loss. Easy.
kevohmsford wrote: » God I'd love a Pop-Tart.
Broken Hearted Road wrote: » The average work day can be anything from 8 to 12 hours a day but sometimes it can go over and have weekends thrown into the mix too. A few weeks ago there was one night when I didn't finish up til 10.30 at night and that's in work since morning and another night not finishing up until after 9pm. Get back to me next time you work 3 weeks solid with 8 to 13/14 hours a day and let me know how you get on. You won't be bouncing around with energy that's for sure.
Kev_2012 wrote: » I find that Irish people make fun of others who don't eat the same as or drink the same as them. That's a massive issue, and it all starts with learning from a young age.
rubadub wrote: » This is part of the problem with these studies and projections. There was one a few years ago saying the Irish were currently lower than the UK, but the projection was that we would be higher. This was since they were say 5% obese in 1980 and 15% in 2000, but in the UK it was say 10% in 1980 and 16% in 2000. So they wrongly conclude that we are rapidly rising and will continue at this fast rate, and quickly pass out the UK, as though its 2 cars accelerating. There were studies done decades ago feeding prisoners huge amounts of food, like 10,000kcal per day, their weight stabilised, even though they ate huge amounts the body gets used to it and does not just continue to put on weight. Not sure if anybody bothered to examine the graphs on that link.http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/ireland-s-obesity-rate-among-world-s-worst-1.2594266 In the first you see the Irish men & womens are not increasing at the same rate at the end. While the world women & men are rising at the same rate. On the second graph they appear to be rising upwards at a great angle. If you transposed the first graph and its angle on the second the Irish men would be maybe 30% in 2025. The bottom axes shows 50 years, slap another 50 years on the end and use the same angle they have and in 2075 it would predict maybe 100%+ of men will be obese. It reminds me of that simpsons episode with lisas teeth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49MkKpmRW6Y
Broken Hearted Road wrote: » I think something else that plays a part is a long, busy and hectic schedule. A grocery shop for me, doesn't contain junk except for white bread for toast and sandwiches. Fast food and take away - I never go there. A lot of my diet consists of eggs - for breakfast and it's great for dinner too - like scrambled eggs for dinner. That's if I'm not too tired for dinner. There's definitely room for improvement in my diet like I enjoy a can of coke a day for a boost.
