is the fear and loathing of food the same as the love and desire for food.

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Its all about obsession

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Anorexia is caused by how you think your body looks ,fat and overweight,so you slim then just stop eating.

Body dismorphia.

Obesity is just for fat buggers,who love burgers ful of fat.

Obesity is just for fat buggers,who love burgers ful of fat beer.

seriously…..i love food.
i do not believe people let themselves get to 30/40 stone just through greed.

mmmmm pie…

i agree it takes lots of greed and no desire to ever wipe your own @rse again to get to that size
Thin people like food you have seen me eat occasionally on a ride iirc

Eating to excess is usually a sign of stress as eating a comfort food helps to relieve stress.

Also anyone notice fat people are either eating or on a mobile, sometimes both, they need to exercise the jaw muscles while ordering a huge big mac,

Reward Pathway for obesity is different to the delusion of self-image in anorexia.

seriously…..i love food

just be fat then, hope you love medical treatment too?

i do not believe people let themselves get to 30/40 stone just through greed.

I agree. I eat what I want and don't put on weight, so it's not just about self control (or lack of it). Some people are pre-disposed to put on weight, and you can see it's hereditary in some cases.

thin people love food too just less of it

jon – rubbish. Very very few people have a hereditary or genetic component to obesity. its almost always gratuitous overeating

jon1973 – Member
I agree. I eat what I want and don't put on weight, so it's not just about self control (or lack of it). Some people are pre-disposed to put on weight, and you can see it's hereditary in some cases.

Bollocks! What's hereditary is lack of discipline and poor food choice.

TJ – No doubt a lot of it is down to over-eating. But some people's metabolism is such that they will gain weight when someone eating the same about of food, and doing the same amount of exercise will not. it's easy to be judgmental if your one of the ones that doesn't.

You're fat, therefore lack self control – it's not that simple.

it is simple….
dont eat, you shrivel up and die
eat too much, you get fat!

Just watched supersize fatty vs super extra thin or whatever its called…

Its all about body image, fear of foods, obsession with excerising and sometimes punishing your body for Anorexics.

Really obese people love food but eat escessive amounts for differrent reasons (comfort, past surpressed bad experiences, big appetite).

Its all very psychological and both out of control.

I suffer from gratuitous overeating.

If I didn't exercise as much as I do I'd be even heavier.

all in the head then……….fat and thin??

no fat people really do weigh more and eat too much / more than they need.

MY GOD. TJ and Ton agree on something. FFS I've seen it all now!

Ton – Not for everyone but mainly with these 2 conditions.

I think alot of surpressed feelings lead to alot of disorders and habits within people not just relating to food disorders. Some problems are worse than others.

Also genetics play their part as do peoples education and general upbringing.

By the way all this talk is making me hungry 😐

*sigh* Oh dear.
Anorexia is um, mostly I think, psychological. It's the utter inability to see the reality of what size you are, in relation to 'healthy'. Like, from talking to friends, there is no too thin. There just isn't. Some of it's competition, some of it's taking control back, some of it's punishment, some of it is obsession. Different for different people.
Obesity. Most psychological, but there are other reasons. Go do some research on thyroid problems, insulin resistance and polycystic ovary syndrome. Between 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 women in thought to have polycycstic ovary syndrome.
Fat does not always mean eating too much. Sometimes it means lack of education, lack of understanding of calories, ignorance of in=out, restrictions on mobility preventing exercise, fear of being laughed at stopping people exercising and sometimes, just sometimes, it's a result of an almighty mess up in the way a body functions. Thankfully, the NHS is a bit more clued up than some of you these days so it's getting sorted 😆 Most of my mates with PCOS seem to have taken a sudden interest in biking. Can't think why.

Go do some research on thyroid problems

Ton doesn't want to know anything about either anorexia or obesity, he just wants to be told that people with a "racing weight" are mentally ill. 😉

loulouk – Member

Fat does not always mean eating too much.

Sometimes it means lack of education, lack of understanding of calories, ignorance of in=out, restrictions on mobility preventing exercise, fear of being laughed at stopping people exercising and sometimes,

You can't see the contradiction in that statement?

The eating too much is the symptom, not the cause? Expressed badly, my apologies. Also a follow up from my previous sentence. So should have been part of the last paragraph.
I do mean that though. People who eat as opposed to just eating normally, you think they taste the food half the time? What I'm trying to say is, sometimes it's not the food, it's the act of eating. Anything would do, burgers are, unfortunately, a quick and easy fix.
I smoke and used to eat too much chocolate and don't drink. Guess which one of those is the hardest to quit.

iDave – Member

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The way this one has kicked off, I'd say it was at least a 6/10

The way this one has kicked off, I'd say it was at least a 6/10

This is supposed to be a joke? Whoops. Silly me, so gullible. 🙄

no joke…just curious.
but i find thin people more revolting than i do fat people.
all those bones showing….
this is much nicer……

Funny. People with psychological problems are revolting. Our societies attitude to mental health, neatly wrapped in one sentence. I think I'll quote you on that elsewhere, it's beautifully put.

If im correct obese people have a higher metabolic rate than thin folk, they have to work harder at everything they do.

but i find thin people more revolting than i do fat people.

WTF? I mean, really WTF is wrong with you?

You find people 'revolting'?

nickc – he has serious issues with self image and self esteem – hence the constantly looking for approval on here and the continual buying of new bikes as well as the fact he is seriously obese.

*TJs pocket guide to psychological diagnosis – as accurate as anything on the net*

jeremy…are you stalking me

I should stay away from these sorts of threads, they do my head in. Ignore me

C_G's is "to like yourself". Made a huge difference to me.

extremes on either side dont look good to me, and arent good health wise. Being fat kills way more people in this country

nickc…..no mate, course i dont find people revolting.
just a figure of speech. ignore me . 😆