Comment on Anon travels overseas

glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• essell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Portion sizes are a factor too!

  source

  • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I dont feel like they are. Traveling France and Italy a couple years back, I found myself not finishing meals much more regularly that I do in the states, Even though I was eating a bit more because I was walking 5+ miles a day.

    Maybe i was in part over ordering due to language, or menu expectations. Maybe some of thw places I was in were touristy and over doing it to match ‘american portions’

    But for instance, i got breakfast that was ‘oefs en cocotte de compagne’ at a café a couple blocks from the louvre, far enough to not be in the tourist trap surrounding area anymore.

    It was massive- 4 shired eggs with a generous amount of mushrooms and gruyere, served with 4 pieces of toast. And I confirmed with the waiter that that was not a shared portion…

    source

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      France doesn’t really do restaurant breakfast, that dish is a main. Breakfast is coffee and a croissant if you’re having it outside the house, otherwise it’s brunch.

      source

      • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, I mean brunch checks out. It was like 11:00 it was still a huge serving of a verrry rich dish though.

        source
      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah european breakfast is mostly just a cigarette and a bowl of creme

        source
    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nobody has ever had this kind of breakfast in France. Normal breakfast here is coffee and maybe the last of yesterday’s baguette.

      source
    • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Jesus, I top out at half that and I’m an absolute lardass, les that I used to be but still

      source
• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I can do my weekly shopping without having to get in the car. Because in Europe everything’s all mixed together rather than zoned into miles of endless residential, that you have to drive for 25 minutes in order to leave to get to the big shopping mall was it’s one million car parking spaces.

  source

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i walk 10 minutes (1.0 km) to the second-nearest grocery store (because that has cheaper and better-quality food) and i’m already living pretty far out on the city borders.

    source
• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And also didn’t replace all the fat in their food with sugar processed from corn.

  Fat doesn’t turn into fat when you eat it - it turns into sugars, which then turn into fat. Eating sugar just takes one step out of the process and makes your body work less (and therefore burn less calories) turning it into fat.

  source
• ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We compensate with gym time, you can’t outrun a cheeseburger

  source

  • xep@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fast Food!

    source

    • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ironically fast food applies a speed debuff

      source
  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not being able to outrun your diet is a really strange concept to me, and I’ve exclusively heard it in this thread, and multiple times in this thread. Dafuq?

    source

    • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a metaphor, exercise won’t fix a bad diet

      source
• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can’t outrun your diet.

  source

  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not that simple, if you are healthier with regular exercise your hunger is also better regulated and your diet will be better.

    source

    • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To me, no one really needs to be told that being fit and healthy is better than not being fit and healthy. It’s more that, as a society, we’ve been convinced over eating can be repaid with excersise, to sort of balance it out (an idea pushed by food lobby groups). I’m not saying that you disagree with any of that.

      We evolved as persistence hunters. Being able to run off our winter fat reserves would’ve made us poor persistence hunters and we would’ve died out.

      source
  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    calories in, calories out. Use more than you eat and weight goes down. Eat more than you use and weight goes up. It’s an oversimplification, but it’s not wrong.

    source

    • xep@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s very wrong, if only for the simple reason that not all calories are the same. Eating 1000 calories worth of protein will not have the effect as eating 1000 calories of HFCS.

      Please stop parroting this piece of misinformation that was used to sell us ultra-processed foods.

      source

      • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What you said is an explanation of why what I said is an oversimplification. It’s an efficiency variable, just makes the math slightly more complicated, doesn’t change the formula.

        source
  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, you can, but it takes a lot of running to expend the calories taken in with a pretty typical American diet, especially when you account for the increase in appetite exercise typically brings.

    But it is possible. If you can burn 2000 calories on a single run, that’s a lot of room to maneuver to fit your macros while eating a significant amount of junk food.

    source

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you’d have to run over 3 hours to burn 2000 calories.

      source