Bugzee wrote:
Why should I feel bad for a "hormonal" girl who can't watch what she's eating. Plus every fat person says that line of crap - it ain't true.
People are overweight for different reasons. A small number are compulsive eaters, most simply have had, at some point in their life, poor eating habits/life style habits, and some have medical conditions which make it difficult to anticipate the number of calories one needs on a regular basis, or experienced an injury or illness which limited their mobility and they found it difficult to find a new caloric equilibrium.
If your metabolism fluctuates significantly it can be very difficult not to gain weight. People with Cushing's Syndrome can gain weight on 1,000 calories a day. Since most individuals with Cushings Syndrome are overweight, I do not think it reasonable to assume that it would be easy not to gain weight if you have this disorder.
A person with hypothyroidism can also gain weight with a low caloric intake, and very quickly because most individuals with hypothyroidism have auto-immune hypothyroidism where their metabolism is not stable. Again, since most individuals with this condition gain weight, I don't think it reasonable to assume that you would not.
And then, medications such as SSRI's are notorious for causing weight gain. Some of them actually change the bodies metabolism and causes it to produce more fat, while others cause an increase in appetite, while some do both.
Most individuals do not count their calories. They gauge do a qualitative analysis based on how hungry they are. Hunger is ultimately controlled by the hypothalamus, which isn't always in sync with other areas of the brain and the body.
Most people who are of average weight only have good communication between their hypothalamus and everything else to thank for it.