Quote From: ghstwheel Seriously, this person who is not eating very much still consumes more calories than the average person. Even assuming she is really only drinking 3 liters of soda (it is more likely 4 to 5, because it is hard to keep track of when you drink partial bottles)
3 liters of soda 1250 calories
French Vanilla Coffee 255 calories for single serving (and who really drinks 8 oz?)
1 bagel 360 calories (more if a big bagel)
Cheese whiz 10-1000 calories, depending on how much you put on. Most people's one ounce is more like 3 ounces. (assume 300 calories)
OR cheese 10-1000 calories, depending on how much you put on.
Steak 230-460 calories (most people consume even more than the high amount here)
Corn 1 cup 132 calories PLUS it probably was cooked with margarine or butter add 100-200 calories more.
3 " Baked Potato 278 calories Plus if it has margarine, butter or sour cream another 200 calories
That's around 3400 calories already. If you use more butter, or have more coffee or eat more corn, it adds up quickly.
That being said, I know many skinny, sedentary people who eat that many calories per day. It's not always how much you eat, it is often what you eat, and sometimes what combination of things you eat. That high fructose corn syrup in the soda is a killer (give me sugar any day) and I don't think a body even knows what to do with all the gunk in processed cheese foods or margarine (give me butter any day). Some bodies funtion better with more protein and some function better with more carbs. We don't all fit in one box. To say someone eats
too much is incorrect. Sometimes, they just eat the wrong things for their body.
The pity party is another story.
JMO
I found your post to be very interesting. Thought I'd share an email I got a while back about "Butter vs Margarine."
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the
>turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a
>payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this
>product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food
>appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in
>place of butter. How do you like it?
>They have come out with some clever new flavorings.
>
>DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter?
>
>Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
>
>Both have the same amount of calories.
>
>Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
>
>Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the
>same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical S tudy.
>
>Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other
>foods..
>
>Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because
>they are added!
>Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of
>other foods.
>
>Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for
>less than 100 years.
>
>And now, for Margarine..
>
>Very high in trans fatty acids.
>
>Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
>
>Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers
>HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) Increases the risk of cancers up to
>five fold. Lowers quality of breast milk.
>
>Decreases immune response.
>
>Decreases insulin response.
>
>And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY
>INTERESTING!
>Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
>
>This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and
>anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing
>the molecular structure of the substance).< /SPAN>
>
>You can try this yourself:
>
>Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.
>Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
>
>* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should
>tell you something)
>* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value;
>nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro-organisms will not a
>find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your
>Tupperware and spread that on your toast? That should put things in perspective.
>
>Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to "butter them up")!
