Can a skinny person be a glutton?

[Lightspeed-Lemon]

Ah, gluttony -- favourite "Deadly Sin" of obese people everywhere. Even modern secular society has little sympathy for fat people seen pigging out on pizza and burgers. Yet if we see a skinny or athletic individual doing the same, we tend not to judge them. Does that mean it's somehow worse or more sinful when a fat person eats this way? Or can skinny people be gluttons too?

NO - as long as they are skinny or fit, they're eating the right amount of calories for them, so they can't commit gluttony

YES - they're showing the same lack of self-control over their own eating as fat people, so they are still filthy gluttons

SORT OF - it's still morally wrong for skinny/fit people to eat like gluttons, just not AS wrong

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[Anonymous]

If you're making unhealthy eating choices then you are making unhealthy eating choices. It doesn't matter what your outside appearance is. If all you eat is greasy fast food, that's bad for you. Even if your body metabolizes the fat quickly, you're still choosing greasy fat over fresh veggies. You're missing out on the nutrients from those veggies.

People define "gluttony" in different ways - it's mostly associated with food, but it can be used to describe any over indulgence. An alcoholic who eats healthy but drinks all the time can be called a glutton. Someone who makes healthy food/drink choices but spends all their money compulsively buying things can be called a glutton (over-indulging whatever they're buying). So yes, a skinny person can ABSOLUTELY be a glutton.

[Idonthaveausername]

I am one of these people, but I get extremely sick without food and my head gets foggy if I don't eat enough. I have a fat friend that I go out to eat with all the time and he always makes jokes about me having hollow legs because I can outeat him and still have a healthy BMI. As long as you're not binging and purging or starving yourself between gorges, then it's not gluttony. Some people just have a higher metabolism.

And there's no difference between fat shaming, skinny shaming, and healthy shaming because you're jealous.

[JulieXO]

Gluttony has more to do with how much and in what way, rather than their body weight. A fat person doesn't necessarily have to be a glutton.

[Lightspeed-Lemon]

True. But if it's about portion size and frequency of eating, would that make an athlete like Michael Phelps, who consumes 12,000 calories a day, a glutton?

[JulieXO]

It would not, since his body requires this much to match his daily energetic output. To me, gluttony is eating excessively for pleasure rather than for nourishment.

[madhatters4]

yes. gluttony is about your weight but rather a habit or practice

[madhatters4]

*gluttony ISN'T about...*

[Anonymous]

I think being a glutten has less to do with your body, and more to do with your soul/personality.
That sounds stupid but the only way I can word it.
Fat at heart is what I call it.

[Tanairy328]

Man i wish i could be that girl who can eat everything and still be skinny xD, i eat one fucking cracker and gain ten pounds like wtf? xD

[thecalmerface]

yes they can.

people aren't only fat due to eating too much.. lol. dopey.

[Anonymous]

I eat a lot and don't gain anything. If I eat less then I'll become a skeleton though.

[Anonymous]

They can somehow get away with it and burn it off but a fat person doing it just looks wrong

[Anonymous]

SORT OF - it's still morally wrong for skinny/fit people to eat like gluttons, just not AS wrong

[bubbletrouble]

Of course. Gluttony just means you overeat