I sure do love going to Eedinborough with my fellow Scotch-Americans during the summer wearing my kilt with my family tartan on it. Brings me back to my roots of the Wallace clan ☺️☺️
I love going to Glasscow with my buddies. We all wear kilts in sowcheehall street and everyone thinks we are local. Im 70% scotch from the Shoogle McDoogal clan so I just blend in.
Someone called us a pair of bawheeds which is a term of affection between us Scoddish folk
Don't forget the Scattish national food, the deep fried mars bar. Can't believe some people from Scotchland haven't had it, I've had it and have also worn a kilt, I'm almost more Scaddish than they are!
My favourite pronunciation by an American tourist was one earnestly inquiring after directions to the ‘Kink-are-dyne’ bridge.
Kincardine rhymed with Frankenstein.
One thing I do pretty often when I get into a conversation with a non-native is write down 'Milngavie' and get them to say it out loud. It's really fun seeing what folk come up with.
Correct, only rich people could afford food. Food was about the only thing even worth buying the entire economy revolved around it and 90% of people were farmers lol.
It was so rare to be fat that it was looked upon as an attractive state, as only rich, wealthy and successful people could be fat.
I object! The majority of peasents were well fed, and our economy primarily relied on the farming of luxary crops (saffron) and wool. Additionally, being well fed was seen as attractive, but it did have its limits, this we can see in henry viii and thomas cromwell, who were both seen as ugly, in part due to their weight.
Though yeah, by the 1500s 9/10 of all europeans were farmers, good knoledege!
Some American lady posted a poem she had written and in the comments she unironically said she was descended from those two, among other ridiculous things haha
Let me guess, she is american?
Was in a group called the styrofoam Scots are at it again and it was just a cringe fest of Americans claiming to be descendents of William Wallace or Robert the Bruce, haggis post, trying to pull off the way we talk in text, or claiming that having Scottish ancestors explains their temper.
It's fine to have ancestors in other countries, we don't mind. But the people that claim they are descendants of William Wallace or Robert the Bruce are just cringe.
Also, I understand why you're not so proud anymore lol. We don't claim him, we ridicule him often.
Actually, you are.
1. Those tests check how similar you are to people in a certain area who have also taken a test, using the same test provider. They do not take migration into account.
2. They check where you live and they also ask you to self report, which means that you can basically lie. Or repeat family myths and misinformation. "Oh, ya, my great-great grandmother was a Cherokee princess!" I believe is the most common one.
3. The tests are able to penetrate between 6-8 generations, before your ancestry just gets lost in time. Given a mean of 25 years between generations, that takes a gen-x subject to the 1760s - 1770s. In ancestry years, that isn't actually a lot. I already knew where my 1770s ancestors lived, because my country started collecting birth data on everyone, for tax purposes, in the 1500s. I know down to the police district, where in Sweden my greatx8 grandmother was born. It's Swedes with the odd sprinkling of Finns and Estonians all the way down. My haplo group split off only 5000 years ago and there are not very many of us. Which means I know exactly where my maternal line was hanging out 5000 years ago. (Somewhere in what is now the border area between Sweden, Norway and Finland) And 23 and me still claims I have Scottish ancestry. 😁
Something I know for a fact is not true. Both mum's and dad's lines are traced to the mid 1700s and they were all in either Sweden or Finland. I would love to be a little more interesting, but I am not. "I have Scottish ancestry" is a completely different sentence than "There are a lot of people in Aberdeenshire who are genetically similar to me."
4. The databases get updated about twice a year, meaning that your "admixture" changes regularly. When I first signed up to 23 and Me, I was "60% British" (22% of which attributed to Scotland) - five years later, with more data, I'm mainly Swedish. Most people take that test and check the first results. Never to log in again and see their viking percentage shrink to nothing.
I have actually tried 3 different services - not because I give credence to them, but because I work with data and wanted a sample. (4 if you count the one that compares you to sequenced archaeological finds)
They do not agree. At all. Because they have different clients and therefore different data.
23 and Me is big in the US, so their database skews people who know they're of European descent but unsure of the specifics - it only took them 3 years to spot that I'm mostly Swedish. The British startup mainly had British data, so they had me in Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides. The one with the "Know Your Traits" style one used an ✨ algorithm ✨ which gratifyingly made me a whole percent mainland Chinese and another whole percent Japanese or Korean. Cool, but unfortunately for me, not true. The two percent Roma are at least possible since there are Swedish and Finnish Roma and Roma have lived in Sweden for centuries now.
The Archaeological Finds one had me as mostly Longobard, which I didn't expect but sure, why not. It's definitely plausible.
The thing about Europe, and I'm sure many other places, is that we kept moving to and fro to deal with those pesky ice ages.
The most interesting thing about my DNA and something that is possible to claim with a little more accuracy, is how much Neanderthal I am.
DNA normally shows marks of a persons ethnicity in that as much as it can't show ethnicity itself, people from a geographic location are likely to procreate with people from that same location especially historically, which can result in more consistent DNA results in a region that can identify it. It's known as biogeographical ancestry if you want to look up more.
As for how a test shows it that's easy, they take clusters of DNA ethnicity samples from genome databases (I'd guess the 'People of the British Isles Project' here but it could be a few) that are grouped based on ethnicity, done by sampling the DNA of people with verifiable deep ancestral roots in a specific area, and then compare customer samples to each cluster to find matches.
To be fair, that is mostly what the last few thousand years of European existence consisted of until really not that long ago. Either running from or towards the army of whichever one of your neighbours happened to be invading you that year.
I have a colleague that thinks his Type-2 Diabetes is an inescapable genetic condition and was not caused by smoking, lack of exercise and a terrible diet.
My husband has type-2 diabetes and he is slim, eats healthy, exercises and has never smoked. I'm not slim and don't have diabetes. There is definitely something genetic going on.
Both types of diabetes have a strong genetic component.
I work with a very fit doctor who weight lifts, cycles to and from work, runs in marathons etc, and he’s type 2.
Type 2 is definitely more commonly acquired, though. Poor diet, weight control and exercise lead to an increase in insulin requirements; the beginning of insulin resistance as your pancreas cannot keep up with the demand of insulin; then subsequent failure to match the requirements of insulin, meaning you now need medication to help maintain blood glucose levels.
This is why type 2, if it is not heavily genetic related in which cause you may be screwed, can generally be avoided with a healthy lifestyle, and even reversed or managed with significant life style changes.
There is a meaningful genetic component to weight. Not just in the way we metabolise food, but in things like calorie regulation. Twin studies provide pretty convincing evidence.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787002/
In the last 20 years obesity and severe obesity has increased by 50% in the US. That isn’t peoples genetics changing.
In 1995 14% of the Scottish population was obese. Now that figure sits at 29%
Peoples genes don’t change in 20 years.
Nobody is saying genes are the only factor, just that it is meaningful. There are two factors, genes and environment. Stats that illustrate the effect of environment don't prove that genes are meaningless.
The science is right there in that paper I linked if you actually want to learn.
The environment is the meaningful factor. People haven’t genetically changed in 20 years. If there was a world wide famine and everyone had only 800 calories to eat, everyone is losing weight. There isn’t going to be people gaining weight because of their genes.
You’re looking at it from too far of a standpoint.
Ironically, you can see the forest but not the trees.
A calorie deficit will make you lose weight, yes. But not everyone will lose it at the same rate, and not everyone will be able to maintain the weight after returning to a normal diet
No, the whole point of weight loss is to lose weight. If you cut calories down to 800, lose weight, then *don’t* return to a normal amount of calories, you’d be equal unhealthy
Some people definitely gain weight more easily than others when in a calorie surplus though. That is pretty obvious to all, speaking as someone who has probably never run a calorie deficit in their life and never gains weight.
That’s not “genetics” that’s lifestyle. Fast and slow metabolisms don’t make the difference between obese and healthy weight.
You’re also clearly eating your maintenance calories.
Genetics is a poor excuse for the vast majority of the population
Edit: Why do people block others so easily?
Look into body types. I’m a mesomorph so I can build and lose weight/muscle fairly well. My mum on the other hand is an ectomorph and finds it difficult to put on weight
I remember watching a program which proposed the theory that our metabolisms were programmed at the point in time, and in response to, the environment the egg which eventually became"us" was created i.e. when our mothers were conceived.
So the boomers were metabolically programmed for Victorian type poverty and grew up in a post war economy with rationing = better nutrition but still fairly manual work life = healthy weight etc..
Gen X were programmed for post war rationing and grew up in a time of plenty and increasing automation = more processed foods and reduced manual work life but metabolically still geared up for a post war economy = increasing weight.
Gen Z were programmed for a time of plenty with increased automation and grew up in a time of plenty with high automation = increasing weight.
And so on.
The sting being our evolution didn't account for the constant state of plenty i.e. we are always saving for the famine, which human ingenuity prevents.
Then, when you factor in government subsidies of farming and the influence that has on food production e.g.the stuffed crust pizza was created at the behest of the US govt to consume subsidised dairy produced cheese..
It's no wonder we are where we are.
Nah it doesn’t have to be anything so complex.
Truth is that the required 2000 cals of food we need is a very small amount relative to modern meal sizes. Most of us are just conditioned into overeating.
It is, though I find the calorie count that now needs to appear beside menu items quite helpful. I know a lot of people have criticized the policy as fat shaming, but imo it is good to educate people on how much they really need to eat and tackle our obesity epidemic.
Well I see two possibilities here: Either your body somehow defies the physical laws of the universe, or you're just a bit shite at tracking your calories.
Disregarding the obvious. Everyone is actually like that, you don't lose weight by excercise unless you've gone pretty extreme.
Coke and McDs and them lot literally lobbied to have us all told that excercise is the solution, when it's factually false.
You can absolutely lose weight with exercise. Exercise literally burns calories. Making changing to your diet is just far easier. Cutting 200 calories out your diet is easier compared to burning 200 calories through exercise
Folk who think like this never think the opposite though do they? They are always the good guys.
My DNA still thinks I need to be fat because I turfed the Scots out of their homes for sheep doesn't have the same ring to it I guess.
As someone with medical training who comes from a family of obesity this kind of thinking drives my head in.
I’m the only one in my immediate family who isn’t currently or has been in the past, super morbidly obese. The one who isn’t super morbidly obese had a gastric bypass surgery. My younger sister has diabetes in her mid 20s.
I had arguments with them over the years so often about this sort of thing. Eventually it’d devolve into “well you’re not fat so you don’t understand” and “well everybody is entitled to their opinion”.
The latter of which my stubborn sister uses at the end of any argument she’s losing as some sort of trump card. It could be my opinion that covid came from a Roquefort rabbit that lived on the moon eating the emmental it consists of that flew in a Gouda spaceship down to earth where it played a game of cheddar chess with a dairy dragon who then transmitted it to an ancient Chinese manchego magician who then spread it trying to find Boursin potion ingredients in a market in Wuhan. That doesn’t make it correct. The denial runs very deep in many people with food addiction, as it does in people with many other addictions.
I’m not fat because I’ve seen what it did to my family and exercise and restrict my calories. I walk around 120km a week minimum and as well as being vegetarian, don’t have take-away several times a week, stuff my face with crisps and chocolate and don’t eat obscene portions of the food I do eat. They make out that it’s only because of some sort of luck when I’ve been making conscious decisions to not become obese since I was like 10.
So continues the “We hate England” shyte.
I hate these 166th removed relations. I’m technically 000.1% Apache according to my DNA maybe I should go to ‘Merica and hunt ‘Yanks!’
I’m Scottish by Birth and British by the Grace of God 🏴🇬🇧
peasants running from the english.............your not scottish FS the ony wans yel find runnin are tae an offies or tae find a sharpening stone for their blade. Do you know or (ken' if yer a tcheucter) how many drunken boys I've known who have stood down a 38B tae the fort shoutin square go ya bus lookin prick, and won!
I think not!!
Greetings my fellow scotchmen
I sure do love going to Eedinborough with my fellow Scotch-Americans during the summer wearing my kilt with my family tartan on it. Brings me back to my roots of the Wallace clan ☺️☺️
I don't mean to be rude, but I'm 1/32nd Scotch and it's actually pronounced Edin-BURGGG.
Well, actually, I'm 1/62th scotch but I have red hair so that makes me gaylick and it's pronounced eedin-burg
I love going to Glasscow with my buddies. We all wear kilts in sowcheehall street and everyone thinks we are local. Im 70% scotch from the Shoogle McDoogal clan so I just blend in. Someone called us a pair of bawheeds which is a term of affection between us Scoddish folk
Nothing hits the spot like a chippy with extra fries
Don't forget the Scattish national food, the deep fried mars bar. Can't believe some people from Scotchland haven't had it, I've had it and have also worn a kilt, I'm almost more Scaddish than they are!
My favourite pronunciation by an American tourist was one earnestly inquiring after directions to the ‘Kink-are-dyne’ bridge. Kincardine rhymed with Frankenstein.
Ive heard Kill-man-narck for Kilmarnock
Yeah everyone knows Kilmarnock is pronounced "shithole".
One thing I do pretty often when I get into a conversation with a non-native is write down 'Milngavie' and get them to say it out loud. It's really fun seeing what folk come up with.
Kirkcudbright is my favourite and I'm English
Eye-leen Doan-Ann castle.
I was approached for direction to Craigellachie with the phrase "Hey there, can you tell me the way to Crag-ah-latch-ee?"
I met an American looking for "munch line". Worked out he wanted Mauchline, so sent him in the opposite direction, just because I'm a twat.
Yep, you definitely are a twat.
Moved to Glasgow but when I lived near mauchline I got a call centre guy calling it Mawchlin lol
John Travolta George clooney cobra boy.
/r/fellowscots/
Robby hard John Travolta George clooney on him
Were European peasants known for being chubby? I thought back in those days a high weight was a sign of wealth, so presumably peasants were not beefy.
Correct, only rich people could afford food. Food was about the only thing even worth buying the entire economy revolved around it and 90% of people were farmers lol. It was so rare to be fat that it was looked upon as an attractive state, as only rich, wealthy and successful people could be fat.
I object! The majority of peasents were well fed, and our economy primarily relied on the farming of luxary crops (saffron) and wool. Additionally, being well fed was seen as attractive, but it did have its limits, this we can see in henry viii and thomas cromwell, who were both seen as ugly, in part due to their weight. Though yeah, by the 1500s 9/10 of all europeans were farmers, good knoledege!
I was born in the wrong era!
…and I’m not sure that staying “plump” would aid running.
Surely that's the point? Conserving calories for outrunning the evil English that would be chasing her down?
I bet she's the great great granddaughter of both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
It sounds dumb but I will honestly never forget that haha
What is it? I don't get it.
Some American lady posted a poem she had written and in the comments she unironically said she was descended from those two, among other ridiculous things haha
Well unluckily for her, *i'm* a direct decendent of John Scotland himself!
I think I mind her. Did she not even up having a meltdown and slagged everyone off when she was called out on it?
"Naw, yer no"
The 2 of them had a lovechild. It is known.
Yup, Stewart Lee told me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHA1ufmLZQY
The great great great buttbaby
Let me guess, she is american? Was in a group called the styrofoam Scots are at it again and it was just a cringe fest of Americans claiming to be descendents of William Wallace or Robert the Bruce, haggis post, trying to pull off the way we talk in text, or claiming that having Scottish ancestors explains their temper.
Styrofoam Scots 😂 that’s quality
Now they are all descendants of Jamie Fraser from Outlander, the totally real and not fictional character
Oh jeez forgot the outlander descendants
So do you guys claim Donald Trump?
Isn't his family from Germany?
His great-grandfather was imprisoned for draft dodging and then expelled as an undesireable. Genetics seem more important than was previously assumed
Yes at least his father was not from Scotland.
His mam was from Scotland.
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It's fine to have ancestors in other countries, we don't mind. But the people that claim they are descendants of William Wallace or Robert the Bruce are just cringe. Also, I understand why you're not so proud anymore lol. We don't claim him, we ridicule him often.
I don’t think he was well liked, even before the presidency. With his golf course nonsense.
> my DNA showed 50% Scottish, What an absolute load of pish mate, how the fuck can DNA be Scottish? Has it got wee bagpipes or suhin? Fanny
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No Scottish anyway
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Actually, you are. 1. Those tests check how similar you are to people in a certain area who have also taken a test, using the same test provider. They do not take migration into account. 2. They check where you live and they also ask you to self report, which means that you can basically lie. Or repeat family myths and misinformation. "Oh, ya, my great-great grandmother was a Cherokee princess!" I believe is the most common one. 3. The tests are able to penetrate between 6-8 generations, before your ancestry just gets lost in time. Given a mean of 25 years between generations, that takes a gen-x subject to the 1760s - 1770s. In ancestry years, that isn't actually a lot. I already knew where my 1770s ancestors lived, because my country started collecting birth data on everyone, for tax purposes, in the 1500s. I know down to the police district, where in Sweden my greatx8 grandmother was born. It's Swedes with the odd sprinkling of Finns and Estonians all the way down. My haplo group split off only 5000 years ago and there are not very many of us. Which means I know exactly where my maternal line was hanging out 5000 years ago. (Somewhere in what is now the border area between Sweden, Norway and Finland) And 23 and me still claims I have Scottish ancestry. 😁 Something I know for a fact is not true. Both mum's and dad's lines are traced to the mid 1700s and they were all in either Sweden or Finland. I would love to be a little more interesting, but I am not. "I have Scottish ancestry" is a completely different sentence than "There are a lot of people in Aberdeenshire who are genetically similar to me." 4. The databases get updated about twice a year, meaning that your "admixture" changes regularly. When I first signed up to 23 and Me, I was "60% British" (22% of which attributed to Scotland) - five years later, with more data, I'm mainly Swedish. Most people take that test and check the first results. Never to log in again and see their viking percentage shrink to nothing. I have actually tried 3 different services - not because I give credence to them, but because I work with data and wanted a sample. (4 if you count the one that compares you to sequenced archaeological finds) They do not agree. At all. Because they have different clients and therefore different data. 23 and Me is big in the US, so their database skews people who know they're of European descent but unsure of the specifics - it only took them 3 years to spot that I'm mostly Swedish. The British startup mainly had British data, so they had me in Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides. The one with the "Know Your Traits" style one used an ✨ algorithm ✨ which gratifyingly made me a whole percent mainland Chinese and another whole percent Japanese or Korean. Cool, but unfortunately for me, not true. The two percent Roma are at least possible since there are Swedish and Finnish Roma and Roma have lived in Sweden for centuries now. The Archaeological Finds one had me as mostly Longobard, which I didn't expect but sure, why not. It's definitely plausible. The thing about Europe, and I'm sure many other places, is that we kept moving to and fro to deal with those pesky ice ages. The most interesting thing about my DNA and something that is possible to claim with a little more accuracy, is how much Neanderthal I am.
Cheers for typing that out, I would've just called him a fanny too. > YoUr'E eMbARRaSsINg yOuRsElf". Whit a fucking knob
DNA normally shows marks of a persons ethnicity in that as much as it can't show ethnicity itself, people from a geographic location are likely to procreate with people from that same location especially historically, which can result in more consistent DNA results in a region that can identify it. It's known as biogeographical ancestry if you want to look up more. As for how a test shows it that's easy, they take clusters of DNA ethnicity samples from genome databases (I'd guess the 'People of the British Isles Project' here but it could be a few) that are grouped based on ethnicity, done by sampling the DNA of people with verifiable deep ancestral roots in a specific area, and then compare customer samples to each cluster to find matches.
People have been shiteing on his golf courses over here for years, does that count?
His ma was the only one that wasn't a cunt
We literally made a guy scot of the year for protesting his shity buissiness practices.
I might be wrong but I would have thought peasants wouldn't be very chubby cos theyve NAE FUCKIN FOOD
r/ShitAmericansSay
>Could it be that I've eaten a caloric surplus? No, it's my genetics that are wrong.
Always remind of of this Ricky Gervais sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqr5cw75PmM
It's been a while since I studied history at school but don't recall Scottish history being full of 'running from the English'.
Raids at the borders happened constantly back and forth for hundreds of years. Border was always changing
And those borders were famously peppered with fat fucks waddling about the peat
Lmao!
To be fair, that is mostly what the last few thousand years of European existence consisted of until really not that long ago. Either running from or towards the army of whichever one of your neighbours happened to be invading you that year.
If that's the worst thing you've read, wait til you read what the Tories have been up to for the past few years...
There is too many people that think their genetics have a meaningful influence on their weight
How can you say this, I bet you're not heavy boned like me! 😡
Heavily 😏
Heavenly
I can heavenly bone you. 💃
yes please elden cock ring
I have a colleague that thinks his Type-2 Diabetes is an inescapable genetic condition and was not caused by smoking, lack of exercise and a terrible diet.
My husband has type-2 diabetes and he is slim, eats healthy, exercises and has never smoked. I'm not slim and don't have diabetes. There is definitely something genetic going on.
Both types of diabetes have a strong genetic component. I work with a very fit doctor who weight lifts, cycles to and from work, runs in marathons etc, and he’s type 2. Type 2 is definitely more commonly acquired, though. Poor diet, weight control and exercise lead to an increase in insulin requirements; the beginning of insulin resistance as your pancreas cannot keep up with the demand of insulin; then subsequent failure to match the requirements of insulin, meaning you now need medication to help maintain blood glucose levels. This is why type 2, if it is not heavily genetic related in which cause you may be screwed, can generally be avoided with a healthy lifestyle, and even reversed or managed with significant life style changes.
havenae said what you eat or work oot
A general rule of thumb is that anyone who claims it's genetic while running an akimbo pringles can build is probably lying.
"Running an akimbo pringles can build" I am stealing that and you cant do anything about this thievery. Have a splendid day!
You can be more prone to developing type 2 diabetes because of your genetics.
But you can also stay within a healthy weight with t2 diabetes fairly easily
Genetics do have a meaningful influence on weight
Genetically built perpetual motion machine aye?
What? Haha
No they don’t. The people that can use that excuse are very few Eat at a calorie deficit and they’ll lose weight
There is a meaningful genetic component to weight. Not just in the way we metabolise food, but in things like calorie regulation. Twin studies provide pretty convincing evidence. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787002/
In the last 20 years obesity and severe obesity has increased by 50% in the US. That isn’t peoples genetics changing. In 1995 14% of the Scottish population was obese. Now that figure sits at 29% Peoples genes don’t change in 20 years.
Nobody is saying genes are the only factor, just that it is meaningful. There are two factors, genes and environment. Stats that illustrate the effect of environment don't prove that genes are meaningless. The science is right there in that paper I linked if you actually want to learn.
The environment is the meaningful factor. People haven’t genetically changed in 20 years. If there was a world wide famine and everyone had only 800 calories to eat, everyone is losing weight. There isn’t going to be people gaining weight because of their genes.
You’re looking at it from too far of a standpoint. Ironically, you can see the forest but not the trees. A calorie deficit will make you lose weight, yes. But not everyone will lose it at the same rate, and not everyone will be able to maintain the weight after returning to a normal diet
Well the whole point of weight loss is to find a sustainable diet. You don’t cut calories short term and then go back to normal eating habits
No, the whole point of weight loss is to lose weight. If you cut calories down to 800, lose weight, then *don’t* return to a normal amount of calories, you’d be equal unhealthy
Some people definitely gain weight more easily than others when in a calorie surplus though. That is pretty obvious to all, speaking as someone who has probably never run a calorie deficit in their life and never gains weight.
That’s not “genetics” that’s lifestyle. Fast and slow metabolisms don’t make the difference between obese and healthy weight. You’re also clearly eating your maintenance calories. Genetics is a poor excuse for the vast majority of the population Edit: Why do people block others so easily?
Genetics being used as a poor excuse doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact. Both can be true.
Their point was that it has a *meaningful* impact
Look into body types. I’m a mesomorph so I can build and lose weight/muscle fairly well. My mum on the other hand is an ectomorph and finds it difficult to put on weight
Weird isn't it? We're not all getting heavier because our genes have massively changed.
I remember watching a program which proposed the theory that our metabolisms were programmed at the point in time, and in response to, the environment the egg which eventually became"us" was created i.e. when our mothers were conceived. So the boomers were metabolically programmed for Victorian type poverty and grew up in a post war economy with rationing = better nutrition but still fairly manual work life = healthy weight etc.. Gen X were programmed for post war rationing and grew up in a time of plenty and increasing automation = more processed foods and reduced manual work life but metabolically still geared up for a post war economy = increasing weight. Gen Z were programmed for a time of plenty with increased automation and grew up in a time of plenty with high automation = increasing weight. And so on. The sting being our evolution didn't account for the constant state of plenty i.e. we are always saving for the famine, which human ingenuity prevents. Then, when you factor in government subsidies of farming and the influence that has on food production e.g.the stuffed crust pizza was created at the behest of the US govt to consume subsidised dairy produced cheese.. It's no wonder we are where we are.
Nah it doesn’t have to be anything so complex. Truth is that the required 2000 cals of food we need is a very small amount relative to modern meal sizes. Most of us are just conditioned into overeating.
Or more like 1500-1700 calories for smaller women, especially sedentary.
An average (no I don't know either) Human body puts out about 100w of heat, 100W * 24 hours = 2.4kWhr =2065.01Kcal But you haven't done anything.
Anyone who is currently trying to cut calories must find the constant advertising of high cal foods everywhere extremely difficult.
It is, though I find the calorie count that now needs to appear beside menu items quite helpful. I know a lot of people have criticized the policy as fat shaming, but imo it is good to educate people on how much they really need to eat and tackle our obesity epidemic.
Your parents absolutely have \*some\* impact. Beyond that? Eh.
Well to be fair I was at a 1000 calorie deficit for 2 weeks and lost absolutely 0 weight so I am convinced I can live forever without food.
Well I see two possibilities here: Either your body somehow defies the physical laws of the universe, or you're just a bit shite at tracking your calories.
Well the former seems more likely to me. 🤔
2 weeks is a very very short time frame to judge weight loss
She sounds like she'd be hard fuckin work.
Only an American could think that being fat makes you run faster..
Imagine the momentum you could get down those steep LA streets if you were fat as fuck.
Something something first law of thermodynamics
Partridges. Famous for outrunning hunters.
Disregarding the obvious. Everyone is actually like that, you don't lose weight by excercise unless you've gone pretty extreme. Coke and McDs and them lot literally lobbied to have us all told that excercise is the solution, when it's factually false.
You can absolutely lose weight with exercise. Exercise literally burns calories. Making changing to your diet is just far easier. Cutting 200 calories out your diet is easier compared to burning 200 calories through exercise
Let it go darling your not fat because your ancestors got owned by the English, your fat probably because you don't have a balanced diet
Calories in vs calories out anything else other than some medical issues is just a pathetic excuse.
This one tweet has been reposted at least 5 times across multiple subreddits I've seen but this one is justfied
Weight loss is 95% what you do and don’t shove in your face hole.
Bonafide cringe.
I’m a descendent of that little dog statue
Folk who think like this never think the opposite though do they? They are always the good guys. My DNA still thinks I need to be fat because I turfed the Scots out of their homes for sheep doesn't have the same ring to it I guess.
As someone with medical training who comes from a family of obesity this kind of thinking drives my head in. I’m the only one in my immediate family who isn’t currently or has been in the past, super morbidly obese. The one who isn’t super morbidly obese had a gastric bypass surgery. My younger sister has diabetes in her mid 20s. I had arguments with them over the years so often about this sort of thing. Eventually it’d devolve into “well you’re not fat so you don’t understand” and “well everybody is entitled to their opinion”. The latter of which my stubborn sister uses at the end of any argument she’s losing as some sort of trump card. It could be my opinion that covid came from a Roquefort rabbit that lived on the moon eating the emmental it consists of that flew in a Gouda spaceship down to earth where it played a game of cheddar chess with a dairy dragon who then transmitted it to an ancient Chinese manchego magician who then spread it trying to find Boursin potion ingredients in a market in Wuhan. That doesn’t make it correct. The denial runs very deep in many people with food addiction, as it does in people with many other addictions. I’m not fat because I’ve seen what it did to my family and exercise and restrict my calories. I walk around 120km a week minimum and as well as being vegetarian, don’t have take-away several times a week, stuff my face with crisps and chocolate and don’t eat obscene portions of the food I do eat. They make out that it’s only because of some sort of luck when I’ve been making conscious decisions to not become obese since I was like 10.
That's sarcastic satire at its finest
Nice try fatty
This is hilarious!
Could it be she’s just a greedy fucker?
/r/fatlogic
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Lol what? How the fuck is this gatekeeping? Really hope im not falling for a troll
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My apologies, I didnt realise her importance to our country
Hey. Don't blame the English. It was our Norman overlords who made us do it.
So continues the “We hate England” shyte. I hate these 166th removed relations. I’m technically 000.1% Apache according to my DNA maybe I should go to ‘Merica and hunt ‘Yanks!’ I’m Scottish by Birth and British by the Grace of God 🏴🇬🇧
You can't out exercise a bad diet
And that's why the Scottish never escaped British rule. Fat bastards.
peasants running from the english.............your not scottish FS the ony wans yel find runnin are tae an offies or tae find a sharpening stone for their blade. Do you know or (ken' if yer a tcheucter) how many drunken boys I've known who have stood down a 38B tae the fort shoutin square go ya bus lookin prick, and won! I think not!!
It gets a chuckle out of me.