Why are so many women fat these days?

Question

It's so hard to find a girl who doesn't weight as much as a grown man. Why do these girls eat as much as grown men then sit around all day? I'm sure it's the same with men but I am not concerned with them.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Where are you from? I'm overweight/obese but a lot of women walking around my city aren't. A lot are but its by no means "hard to find" thin women. Especially not in our age group. Are you in school? If you somehow miss all the slim women walking around in broad day light, they're not hard to find on college campuses at all. Like not at all. lol

So I call bullshit. I live in nyc and there are plenty of people who aren't obese. Unless you have a very restrictive idea of what "fat" is. Then thats your own problem.

Women would be "fat" for the same reasons men are - combination of body chemistry, diet, exercise, lifestyle, etc.

I gained most of my weight as a child. Diet was an issue but I was also depressed and ate my feelings. Also, my endocrinologist mentioned something about insulin resistance possibly and we were going to do blood work to see if that was an issue. She was going to give me meds if I didn't lose a certain amount of weight by a certain time, but I never made it back in and then I moved away from home again. I eat pretty healthily mostly, but I do like to snack and eat out which holds anyone back from losing. I don't gain weight, but I'm not losing much either. I probably eat a lot, yes, but thats because I'm hungry. Sorry, kiddo. Wait, no I'm not. I like food. :)

Body chemistry is a huge factor though. I have so many slim friends who eat like shit and don't gain weight. Or friends who ate just as unhealthily as I did as a kid, but never had the issue of childhood obesity.
As for me, it takes more than healthy eating to lose weight. You have to create a calorie deficit. So you either exercise frequently or you restrict your calories... Or you can *only* eat healthy and not eat any food from restaurants or any unhealthy snacks. I can't bring myself to do that. It seems wrong.

SirenDep · Accepted Answer

Everywhere you go, especially in city centers, it smells like food. Every event or festivity involves or revolves around food. It's something we all need to survive. Nobody teaches us how much and what to eat, and when we learn, we are already overweight. Most parents are too busy or they don't know themselves and school doesn't teach us about it. Fast food and junk food is everywhere and it's tasty and cheap. In older years, food was not so easy to obtain. In the winter the farms were not producing so many food. They did not know fast food and prepackaged food. Everyone had to work hard to make money, to make food and to live. They did not have so many electric appliances, not even TV or computers. Most christians were fasting. Today food is easily accessible. And the worst the food the cheaper it is. Also, in older years it was too important for women to get married, so they did all they could to look pretty to men. Now they don't care so much about it. Generally, it's the modern way of life that causes it.

dominiquois · Accepted Answer

This is slightly ignorant. Not all fat women are lazy pigs. Some have hormone imbalances, some are fat inducing psychiatric meds, some are naturally endomorphic, fast food is cheaper for poor people and almost mockingly costs the same as a gym membership. Try telling a fat hobo to pick between a $10 meal at McDonald's other than a gym membership. Yeah...
Women are naturally fatter than men: easier to gain it and harder to lose it because of low testosterone. Only recently did the craze for super skinny start historically it's never been this way in any ancient culture or even 60 years ago. Just look at the art or vintage photographs. On top of that the government is trying to kill us by poisoning the food and water supply.
Working out and being cautious of diet are the 2 things that can merely help with all the above issues modern women face short of training as hardcore as a body builder.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

A better question would be:
Why are so many men shallow, judgmental, a-holes these days? It's so hard to find a guy that cares more about what kind of personality a girl has than how much fat she has on her body.

Not saying that physical attraction isn't important, but basing your opinion of someone on their body type is pretty sad.

Tractorbeam · Accepted Answer

There's no doubt that it's happening, and now more than ever before.
In 1960, 54% of the adult population in the USA were not overweight.
Now, less than 29% of that adult population are not overweight, and the average adult's weight is within 7% of being obese.

* Overeating and a bad diet would be some of it. It's quite difficult to get fat on a diet of fruit and vegetables.
* Being lazy, unfit and inactive must have an effect. I know a woman who lost an enormous amount of weight, just by walking 5 miles home from work each day instead of catching the bus. If you can't run a mile in reasonable time, you're physically in trouble. Some couldn't run a mile if their life depended on it, in any amount of time.
* TOXIC CHEMICALS in the food chain have an effect too, and the more you eat, the more exposure. It's not only in processed food (but more likely), but even residual pesticides etc on fruit and vegetables. Some of these chemicals are OBESOGENS, which cause an increase in body fat retention. Others have effects on hormone levels. Hormone levels also have an effect on body fat, and some hormone levels have been reducing world wide by about 1% per year.

ScruffyNerfHerder · Accepted Answer

So it's a problem when women do it, but you aren't concerned about men doing it? Last I checked, women can be sexually attracted to men too. Perhaps the lack of enticing men has killed their hopes of finding someone they'd like and they're drowning their sorrows with fucking burgers?

edgey · Answer

Honestly, being lazy has become the social norm. Look at any television reality show or talk show, ratchet is trending. The mindset of women in these roles seems to be, "F* you, i deserve to be happy". Well that's great for instant gratification, but what about long term happiness? That doesn't really work in the long term. So what you are seeing is more and more people opting for instant gratification over long term happiness. The end result is a society of petty, fat people who would rather go to war over a comment that offends them, instead of proving the person wrong. Look at single parent homes and it's no wonder these concepts are not being taught at young ages. I'd say put in the extra work and find a woman who knows that her weight and health are her responsibility.

For the ones who said be attracted to her personality.. Fat people have personality traits: not liking heat, not wanting to wake up, not wanting to cook healthy, not wanting to work out.. i. e. not wanting to do anything that might give me discomfort. Why would any man want a woman with those traits? Now that time has passed and you can't undo that lack of action, you now have a disease or condition that I'm supposed to be understanding of right?

Mesonfielde · Answer

Depends on what you mean by fat.

I mean, this girl is quite obviously huge, I can fit inside her twice by the WIDTH of my BODY

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While this isn't fat:

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Honestly, the real problem with obesity is how WIDE people tend to be. Who cares if someone has a bit of a belly?

amandat94132 · Answer

Many men are fat too nowadays and women are having to weed through the dating
to find a fit thin man , goes both ways

That said bad food and soft drinks are everywhere, the decent stuff is harder to find
than the junk foods When my parents were kids they walked to school, my Dad skied
to school in Sweden , Mom walked to school everyday, they moved about and
developed good habits, Mom from Ohio , they didn't have all this salty processed
frozen food nor chemically produced drinks, many grew food in the backyard

I used to work in a hospital near San Francisco , a woman 400 pounds came in to the waiting room in a wheel chair with an oxygen tank My nurse friend said the woman
is 26 years old! My parents are in their 80's a play tennis and walk on a walking
path near there house I blame today's lifestyle of those younger, they want
to eat for fun and sit too much There really are many young unhealthy women

chocolatedragon · Answer

Fat is delicious.

harakiri · Answer

there has been a gradual movement towards sedentary lifestyles. the invention of cars, buses, trains eliminated the need to walk all over the place on a daily basis. being in front of a computer for 12 hours straight doesn't help the matter either. the presence of highly unhealthy foods in highly populated areas also doesn't help matters.

Anonymous · Answer

There is a girl that posted an even smaller picture of herself... Jeeze some of us wish we could be fat. I could literally eat all day every day no weight besides the food weight would be put on. It doesn't even matter, because that would be expelled from my system too.

Izzy2102 · Answer

There is hardly any difference in overweightness between men and women. I often wonder where all the fit, tall muscular guys went.
But here's a piece of advice, join a sport. I went on a surfing trip last weekend with my colleges surf club and there were some real hot guys there

Though I hope you know women are supposed to have more fat than men. Being extremely thin is dangerous. Just saying because a lot of guys find only underweight women attractive these days

Bubble-pop · Answer

actually it is a biological thing that women are heavier than men, they have more fat storage in their body. The only way I can describe it is cavemen. women were meant to be fat to have food for the baby and live of the fat whilst the children ate most of the food. The men however were the hunters therefore they were supposed to be skinny and fast to catch the food. It is hard to explain without the correct terminology, but basically it is biological, so don't blame all the women/girls you see who aren't as skinny as the celebrities you see on tv as they have personal trainers and chefs to help them lose their weight, especially after having a child. :)

Gegalix · Answer

Because most modern day women are too lazy too exercise, or go on a diet. I have never met a fat vegetarian, let alone a fat vegan. America is full of greasy unhealthy fast foods, yes, but America is geared towards pleasing women and children before men. So who get fat more often? Women and Children.

P. S. my neighbor went on a vegetarian diet about six months ago. She's lost about 60 lbs.! :D

AnnVdB · Answer

too much junk food available, no home cooking but rather takeaways and shit, lazzy, eating too much because it available and people use it for all kinds of things like for example when they are bored, no exercise/moving enough (being too sedentary)...

campylobacterjejuni · Answer

Actually appetite has to do with your weight, not your gender. It's normal for a grown woman to eat as much as a grown man, it's a pretty outdated and restrictive idea that women need to eat less because they're women.

And if you're sure it's the same with men then you could make the easy assumption that it's bad diet mixed with a sedentary lifestyle, but I guess what you're doing is reproaching some women for not conforming to what you consider attractive, which nobody cares about.

ThatChicGirl · Answer

Most girls have started embrazing an unhealthy and lazy lifestyle, and with media starting to call them curvy, and songs like anaconda, they don't feel like there is something they should do. I think it's incredible stupid and fat girls should stop eating and go to the gym

crazyincalifornia · Answer

Obesity is somewhat a medical mystery. We know some of the causes but are lost as to exactly it happens.
Overall, diets cause stress and failure is common.
Many doctors think we binge by "stress eating". I do that myself, but can hardly put on a pound.

Anonymous · Answer

Poor life choices. There are many people who are overweight for health reasons that are beyong their control, but I think the majority are lazy and don't want to eat healthy or excercise. I take pride in my body, my husband deserves to keep the woman he married, I'll work hard to keep it that way.

ZenQueen · Answer

western diet (high fat, high protein) is spreading through out the world, in combination with sedentary lifestyles for example, driving everywhere rather than walking or cycling.

pr3ttybr0wn · Answer

because americans in general are fat as hell. our diet is unhealthy and unnatural and most of us don't have regular gym memberships or burn enough calories.

JulieXO · Answer

Because food is love. It is kind of unfair that men can eat almost twice as much as women and still stay fairly lean. Guhh, sometimes I wish I were a guy XD

Ashari · Answer

So I assume you like scrawny types better than meaty one?

been_waiting · Answer

Society is lazy, lives off of fast food, frozen food, processed food, etc, and most people work desk jobs and don't do much.

Anonymous · Answer

More males are too fat than females, statistically. We're just pressured to get over it more. I think both sexes need more exercise and to break free of the evils of American food, which is engineered to addict and kill us.

Klaatu51 · Answer

hope by fat you don't mean just a little overweight

ASOIAF · Answer

The same reason so many men are fat. They consume vastly more calories than they use.

Anonymous · Answer

... And what do you consider fat? Honestly I don't think there is any hold in your accusations. Girls aren't there to satisfy you, and look how you please.

Anonymous · Answer

Why do fat men expect to date only slim or fit or in shape women?

MyCatHatesMee · Answer

Technology has made us lazy! I'm actually quite active and so is most of my family!

Illusive_Man · Answer

Because cheeseburgers are easy , treadmill is hard

ihatethiswebsite · Answer

People in general just keep eating more and exercising even less

Anonymous · Answer

Where do you live? Girls barely weigh anything where I live.

Anonymous · Answer

it's not only women it's everyone coach potatoes everywhere

Anonymous · Answer

It's because of terrible diets and all these campaigns for fat acceptance.

itsme_goodsamaritan · Answer

Obesity is an epidemic.

psychedelicfruit · Answer

Food is love, food is life💕

Ruby666 · Answer

Easier to put weight on that lose it.

Anonymous · Answer

Us small girls like to be with a nice guy. One who will not judge our big or small friends.

CrazyMinta · Answer

Because food taste damn good !

RandomR · Answer

What's your definition of fat?

EvilPimp · Answer

LOL!!! SHIT STORM ALERT!!

Annabconfused12 · Answer

We like food

thecreatoroftyler · Answer

What's your definition of fat?

thisGUYknows · Answer

Here we go...

Anonymous · Answer

No I'm not fat I'm pretty thin 5ft 8 120lbs

Anonymous · Answer

People prefer fast food than cook

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