How To Tell If Your SO Is Going To Get FAT Later Down The Line

[Anonymous]

PERSONALITY

The National Institute on Aging did some very interesting analysis on a group of people they have been following for 50 years and tied a few key personality traits to measurements of adiposity: BMI score, waist size, body fat and hip size. They found some interesting, if not unexpected, correlations: impulsive and extroverted people tend to be fatter; and conscientious, disciplined, organized people tend to be skinnier.

Personality Traits and Obesity

Personality traits of fat and skinny

This makes sense because people who are impulsive tend to eat more, as do social butterflies since so many social events are based around eating and drinking.

Disciplined people however, will have either the will power or coping mechanisms in place to navigate their daily life without over-indulging in calories or exercising enough.

Note however, that the two sides aren’t mutually exclusive: disciplined people can be extroverted, and vice-versa.

The traits were taken from the Five Factor Model in psychology, which describes human personality by scoring subjects on each of five areas. From Wikipedia:

Openness – (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious). Appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience.

Conscientiousness – (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless). A tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; planned rather than spontaneous behaviour.

Extraversion – (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved). Energy, positive emotions, surgency, and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others.

Agreeableness – (friendly/compassionate vs. cold/unkind). A tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.

Neuroticism – (sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident). A tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability.

What the researchers found was that people who scored high on the Neuroticism and Extraversion traits were fatter, and people who scored high on the Conscientiousness trait were skinnier. They went a little deeper though and made finer measurements of ‘facets’ in each of the five main personality traits, which gave them even more insight. These facets are more practical concepts to grasp, so here are the ones that had significant correlation to higher body fat — 0 means no correlation, 1 means complete correlation:

0.26 – Impulsiveness, the only facet of Neuroticism that was significant
0.13 – Warmth, part of Extraversion
0.12 – Assertiveness, part of Extraversion
0.07 – Positive Emotions, part of Extraversion
0.06 – Gregariousness, part of Extraversion
0.05 – Competence, part of Conscientiousness
0.05 – Excitement-seeking, part of Extraversion

And the facets that had significant correlation to lower body fat, meaning a negative correlation higher body fat:

0.12 – Order, part of Conscientiousness
0.10 – Self-discipline, part of Conscientiousness
0.09 – Straightforwardness, part of Agreeableness
0.08 – Activity, part of Extraversion
0.07 – Modesty, part of Agreeableness
0.05 – Deliberation, part of Conscientiousness
0.05 – Altruism, part of Agreeableness

[Side note: I guess it kind of make sense that women like extroverted guys because they will most likely get fatter later in life. Similar to how majority of women do]

FRIENDS

Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, according to researchers. When one person gains weight, close friends tend to gain weight too.

Obesity spread to friends

How friends make you fat

people were most likely to become obese when a friend became obese. That increased one's chances of becoming obese by 57 percent.

There was no effect when a neighbor gained or lost weight, however, and family members had less of an influence than friends. It did not even matter if the friend was hundreds of miles away - the influence remained. And the greatest influence of all was between mutual close friends. There, if one became obese, the other had a 171 percent increased chance of becoming obese too. The same effect seemed to occur for weight loss, the investigators say.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a physician and professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator in the new study, says one explanation is that friends affect each others' perception of fatness. When a close friend becomes obese, obesity may not look so bad.

"You change your idea of what is an acceptable body type by looking at the people around you," Christakis said.

The investigators say their findings can help explain why Americans became fatter in recent years: Persons who became obese were likely to drag some friends with them.

the way to avoid becoming fat is to avoid having fat friends.

FAMILY LINEAGE

A follow-up study by the same group expanded the study done in 1905 to include cohorts from 1890, 1905, and 1920 and examined cause of death data. They reported that a father experiencing famine during the critical 9-12 years of age passed protection against cardiovascular disease to his children. To restate: famine for the father meant less cardiovascular disease for his children.

No significant correlations were found for mothers, grandmothers, or grandparents and offspring cardiovascular disease. These correlative studies anticipated a decade of studies into the now popular concept that the diet of the mother might reprogram the genes of the fetus, without mutation, leading to persistent effects in health and development of the child

CLIFF NOTES:

The person LESS likely to get fat would be someone who is:
Less impulsive than average
Less extroverted than average*
More orderly/organized than average
More self-disciplined than average
More conscientious than average
Has skinny friends (surprisingly look at the best friend instead of her mom unless her mom is her best friend)
Has a skinny family lineage (a grandfather during famine would be skinny ofc)

*Extroversion in this sense is the level of stimulation needed for the individual, not necessarily how social they are.

So someone who is MORE likely to get fat would:
Do things without any thought
Always wants to hit the bars, can't put down their phone for five minutes (needs constant stimulation so any sort of addiction is a BAD sign)
Very messy both physically and mentally (lack of planning)
Can't resist a plate of donuts set in front of them
Too lazy to workout or care about anything other than finding more stimulation or doing whatever it is they're doing
Has a best friend who is overweight/obese and most of their friends are overweight/obese
Has an overweight/obese family lineage

The most obvious sign is if being skinny/looking good is truly important to them then they will maintain it!

So for Example:

Girl who had dat ass and dem thighs only because she got lucky with body fat distribution, is the girl who will most likely be fat. if she isn't predisposed to be an athlete or if she didn't get her sexy body from playing some kind of sport she will most likely be fat.

i know a bunch of fit girls who have nice bodies but thats cause they have good MUSCULAR genetics and/or worked for the body. check out the pics below i will explain whats going on under each pic.

dont even ask me which girl im talking about cause you already know. look at her figure. this is what i call an ATHLETE'S figure. yeah sure she stays in shape but this girl has good genetics. this is the girl version of the guy who lifts for 6 months at gets jacked. she didn't even lift in high school and she had a crazy body but it was firm and she was never fat.

girl in the MIDDLE has fat genetics. look at her limbs.. and just look at her body now. no muscle, she just got 'lucky' cause most of the fat she gains goes right to her lower body. she's only gotten fatter since 9th grade. she's approaching the border between thick and fat and i guarantee that once she gets fat like her mom she will not return.