Fat millennials

Everyone is fatter. I look at photos from my youth in the 70’s and 80’s and it’s like we have morphed into another species. It’s shocking. The average person is just FAT and those now viewed as thin, are not thin, just not covered in grabbable fat. Remember the “can you pinch an inch?” cereal commercial? An inch?! You need more than one hand to “pinch” most people’s middles today. And, it’s become so “normal” to be fat, that fat people wear clothes meant for people who are their near ideal weight and now we can see too much skin, fat rolls under clothes and butt crack- on women! Ugh.

Because they don't take up physical hobbies, instead they prefer to "Netflix and chill".

Beer.

Wine.

pork belly.

I suspect a huge part of it is that we are car based society. I tend to see this phenomenon less with New Yorkers( post college weight gain ). America is for the most part sprawl and not particularly walkable. Another factor is the extreme stress of American life and the decline of smoking. 40 years ago people lit a smoke to relieve stress now they overeat.

I have also noticed a big difference in people generally comparing 21/22 with 27/28. 21yo lasses look rosy and fresh-faced without makeup. A 28yo chick probably has duller skin without makeup. General flabbiness.

I don't want to walk near college campuses with these effortless 20yos anymore.

It's a social class thing OP

Most of the people you refer to didn't go to college.

Look around any upper middle class high elementary or high school. Anorexia is a bigger problem than obesity.

I remember being in college (early 00s) and seeing the yearbook of a girl in my hall who was from a smallish town in the midwest. I was shocked how many of her classmates were overweight. Like massively overweight.

Look around any coastal cities. Almost all the 20somethings are thin and gym obsessed. Go to a small city in Flyoverstan and everyone is obese. It's a joke with my friends that if you ever want to feel really good about your body, book a flight to the south or midwest and just walk around.

"Lasses"

I hope you're Scots R6.

Or over 80.

Good thread, OP. There are insults for millennials, fat people , flyover residents and anyone not living in NYC. Good job.

Chronic masturbation. It makes men soft.

pot

Millennials seem to come in one of two varieties. Super fit, crossfit cultist freaks or fat pudgies. No in between.

I'm 52 and for the first time in my life need to diet. I've got a noticeable pot belly. I feel both disgusted and empathetic. For the first time in my life I also feel some compassion for fat asses.

Avocado toast!

I’m a 47-year old UES woman with three children. I’m thin and trim, thanks to diet and exercise. Most of my peers are, too. Some might be a few lbs overweight, but no one is obese.

As r12 said, the 20-somethings are either super-fit or doughy and lumpen. It’s surprising.

Gaming

So much delicious and cheap junk food. I don't think we had so much crap readily available when I was a kid.

How dare you use the term FAT ASS??!1!!? Die already you old cunt!!

Why the fuck are you here R15. Go away. Hang out at breeder dot com or where ever lactating broads post. Can’t gays and lez have one space just for them?

There's that word again. Lez. Hate it.

MASA.

28 and I can tell (some) people's internal eye rolls when I complain about my weight but.

I'm tall and still thin build, at 178lbs, but I've lost much of that thinness. I used to be 160s. In my teens I was arguably too thin at 150s. I want the 160s back and more muscle tone than ever. You can tell my whining from across the screen, but it actually belies my slight paranoia of gaining a shitton of weight and never losing it. I have no pot belly, I don't have beer fat because I rarely drink (or rather very occasionally drink) any alcohol. I'm not flabby all over. I look generally fine. But its fading and not in an uncontrollable way but one I should just suck up and go work out to fix.

Insecurities - I don't want to be 30, 35, 40 and ballooning like my mother did have. The mother I was always awkward with on her visits. The one who stuffed junk food while taking anti-schizophrenia meds and under the thumb of her husband. There's a lot of issues behind this :)

Fat they may be but many are hung, too.

They are very triggered, you know.

Also, they don't want to take the risk of going outside and having their emotional support emus escape.

Weeping as I mash the keyboard.

Thinner does not mean happier, OP. Why, this OG body positivity warrior will have you know that even though as I type, I can feel the back fat rolling up under my shoulder blades, I lean in. I am happy, joyous, and free, I am strong from a heavy diet of lifting dogs and spirits.

I, too, am at peace with myself. And it's not the addiction to Vicodins.

R20 Lesbian? I’ve never known any personally, but wasn’t Danny Thomas one?

All those cats, MEOOOW!

You old men all smell funny. Old man funk. Why is that?

I work with a ton of fatties and from what I gather, they're all into video games, comic movies and geeky stuff like that. They eat fast food regularly and all kinds of HFCS/GMO-laden unhealthy snacks. I doubt they even do much regular shopping now that the malls are dead and you can order everything online - at least you got some exercise back when people hung out at the mall. Many of these slugs have bf/gfs who are just as slovenly as they are, so what is the incentive to exercise? It's become acceptable to be a pig.

Sweating through multiple changes of outfits. White sweat rings. Trying to stay hydrated. I can't go on much longer living like this. I'm ready to waddle into the ocean and keep going until I start floating.

Hunny you need to have your tummy pinched off!

DYSMORPHIC-adjacent homophobe, with BPD-adjacent, self-harming proxemic.

R26 What is the background to this? Is she at a Twilight convention? A Hillary supporter? Trump supporter? I must know who this giggly flower is.

R36 - no - she went viral because she was screaming that 'men are raping us!' at some SJW thing at some college. People burned her because - well, she wouldn't be the first person to be raped.

Wow, OP did you just wake up and it’s 2018? Peoples’ metabolism changes after age 25. The brain has developed everything it’s capable of, and the body realizes it’s not a teenage anymore. Everything is finished physically, and then it is the process of going downhill. You really ought to read up on human biology, and get out more. Your question begs of mental competence, as not every question on DL is a poll,instead of basic human body knowledge.

I am so blocking everyone in this thread and I am not even joking.

Well their dicks are on average larger than previous generations. OP is jealous.

Managing to type with my fat, Millennial knob, grandpa.

It's not even that they are necessarily "fat" fat but a large number of them now have that pear shaped form with wide hips and a fat ass squeezed into a pair of skinny jeans, while their upper body is not overweight. Until not that long ago very few men who were not obese had that shape. I wonder if there's been more estrogen in the food chain in the past 20-30 years?

R38 are you serious? How do you explain people across the board being thinner in the 70’s then?

i heard those long azz cvs receipts give you titties lol

[quote] What is the background to this? Is she at a Twilight convention? A Hillary supporter? Trump supporter? I must know who this giggly flower is.

That, my dear R36, is Fat Cora Segal, better known as Trigglypuff. She is a fat rights activist and queer enby. She and her bat flaps are completely unlikeable.

Starbucks large whipped cream coffee concoctions that cost $15 and come with a tun of calories. That didn't exist in the 70s. And Subway food. None of it healthy.

R46 junk food existed in the 70’s but people had self control and didn’t gorge on it

My 32 year old niece is a fat fuck. And Lay -Zee! Eats like a famished trucker and can put away most of a 12-pack daily. I've never seen her dust or vacuum or do any sort of tidying up ever. I don't think she can even ride a bike.

We aren’t allowed to call fat women fat. It is fat shaming. We have to indulge their denial and refer to them as plus sized or curvy girls.

Yes, but t wasn't as pervasive as it is now, r47. For the most part, kids and teens ate at home - family meals - and did junk food on weekends.

R47 is not that people had more self control, it's that back then first and foremost it was just expected that meals would mostly be prepped and cooked at home, usually by the women of the house. That's just how things were. To eat fast food more than once in a great while was just not something that was done. It would have been seen as very odd.

Also, fast food restaurants weren't ubiquitous back then. They weren't on every corner point today, you really had to go looking for them.

And lastly, all food, even the junk, was much better quality then than it is today.

I think it is chemicals in processed foods that make you want to keep eating. I've cut out pretty much anything that comes in a box, and find my appetite to be pretty normal and weigh about the same as I did since my early 20's. But if I eat fast food or soda, I want to keep gorging like a pigly beast. I also eat at least 80% organic meats, so it may be all the hormones they feed animals to get them plump and tasty.

I see teenagers from the local high school going to the McDonalds nearby. Most of them are pudgy to fat. I was a teen in the 60's and we did all eat at home except on weekends. We went to Bobs Big Boy a lot but only on weekends. I look at these kids and how fat they are already and wonder how they will look in 20 years. It gets harder and harder as you age, they will all be 400 and 500 lbs in 20 years.

R51 what you describe is all part of self control - meal planning, cooking your own food, portion control, etc

It's not just self control, r54. It was a different time in the 60s and 70s. We, as a family never, ever ate junk food. Ever. As I got older n the 70s, teenagers used to eat junk food on Friday nights and that was about it.

Different time. Different culture. Dfferent values.

And I used to walk miles to high school , r54. We were all active, lots of exercise durng the day and weekends. Didn't sit around in front of computers. It was a more social time.

This is great!

Don’t forget about cigarettes.

Agreed - they're either superfit or not. But let's not think we ate 'really well' in the 70's - there was a lot of crap pre-packaged home convenience foods. They also drank a lot more back then than today.

It was the physical activity. The average calorie consumption was several hundred more calories per day than what is recommended now.

Too much good easy fatty food. I welcome the restaurants that have the calories listed. It is eye opening.

It's a combination r59, but the food is all inherently worse today in numerous ways.

No pre-packaged food at my house, r59. Or at any of my friends homes, r59. I just remember eating meals for a few minutes and never gorging on food. No snacks between meals.

r55. When I was a kid in the 70's we had soda and snacks on Friday night, when I was little that was usually when my parents had their date night and us kids were with grandma or a babysitter. The rest of the week we ate home cooked meals, no soda. And we were thinner then.

"Your question begs of mental competence," R38? My, that's an even dumber misuse of that phrase than usual.

Also look at the food back in the 60s and 70s. It was total shit. Aspic salads? Meatloaf? The nastiness of the food helped people eat only functionally to the point of satiety.

[quote]My 32 year old niece is a fat fuck. And Lay -Zee! Eats like a famished trucker and can put away most of a 12-pack daily. I've never seen her dust or vacuum or do any sort of tidying up ever. I don't think she can even ride a bike.

Well you sound like a mentally stable uncle.

People drink lots more soda now as opposed to 20-30 years ago. Sipping jumbo sized drinks from McDonald's all day or the "coffee" drinks from Starbucks that are practically milkshakes with whipped cream and flavored syrup.

Same with fast food. It is a staple of many people's diets now, not just an occasional treat.

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs but I drink a couple of cans of regular soda a day. Soda is just as addictive and all that sugar is just empty calories.

It's the driving. I don't drive and I haven't gained a pound since my teenage years because I have to walk a lot. I've never "been fat" before.

I've found it much harder to stay trim than when I was in school. Back then I had much more time to work out and generally be active. Now I sit at a desk all day, sedentary, with people offering me tons of junk food and acting like there's something wrong if I say no. I'm constantly battling being 10-15 lbs overweight, while in college and grad school I stayed trim through exercise and generally sensible eating

A lot of excuses on this thread

Unlike gaining the Freshman 15, I actually lost weight while in college. My campus was a 'closed campus' and classes were within walking distance of each other. Sometimes I ran the 5 minutes cross campus. Thus, I never gained weight. After graduation, and entering the work force, began my sedentary life where I'm too danged tired to go to my gym. Thus, while I'm not obese, I am about 10-15 lbs overweight.

An early menopause didn't help.

There's a lot more mental illness now than in the 70s, people eat because they're unhappy.

[quote] People drink lots more soda now as opposed to 20-30 years ago. Sipping jumbo sized drinks from McDonald's all day or the "coffee" drinks from Starbucks that are practically milkshakes with whipped cream and flavored syrup.

The first part of that is actually untrue R66. Soda sales are plummeting (google it) and Coke and Pepsi are trying to figure out what their next act is.

Starbucks milkshakes OTOH, are popular and have a fuckload of calories. They're supersweet too--not sure how someone can drink a whole one.

If you ever look at the calorie content of prepared foods, especially at places like Walmart, it's really shocking. One sandwich or burrito could have 600-700 calories. Eat shit like that plus snacking all day long on empty carbs, and minimal physical activity...it's a recipe for disaster.

How does one get more physical activity? I doubt hitting Planet Fitness for a half hour on the treadmill makes a difference. We’re talking sustained activity from sun up to sun down. Walking to destinations. Riding your bike. It’s impossible if you’re just driving from place to place and sitting on your ass at work all day.

The only way to compensate would be a sharp decrease in calories. Or intermittent fasting. We eat like farmers but we don’t do farm work anymore.

Once again, as per R7, it's become a class marker for people in their 20s and 30s, just the same as tattoos and Macklemore haircuts.

That's why so many of you pick up on the "either/or" thing.

The "fat girls" (there were two of them) in my high school were probably about 30 lbs overweight, not 150.

Most everyone I know, gay or straight, is relatively thin in their early-mid 30s. My parents, who are in their 60s are thin.

We don't eat junk food, limit Starbucks cold drink purchases to iced coffee black and if I came back from lunch with a bag from McDonald's I'd get some very funny looks. Even as a kid I rarely ate fast food, ditto for most of my friends--we ate a lot of sushi and Chinese food. We didn't have dessert every night either--that was for special occasions or restaurants.

Obesity and nutritional illiteracy are real problems in the US but it's a lifelong thing for most, not a something-that-happens-when they-hit-40 thing.

R1 Totally agree. Most Americans are overweight now; more young people and kids obese than ever before. Too many sedentary people eating empty calories: soda/pop, fast food, beer. Too many people binge watching and mindlessly eating. Too many people are lonely and depressed in the age of "social" media. Suicides and opiate addiction rising. It's a mental health crisis with several contributing factors.

The human body is a machine which evolved to be in constant motion and busy with physical activity, except for periods of deep rest, at which time it was repaired and rejuvenated. The mind was highly focused on survival. Our sedentary lives and overchoice are crazy making.

And now that we are no longer in constant motion, we should have adapted our diets accordingly. Unfortunately food became big business at the same time we became more sedentary. We increased our calorie intake at the exact same time we should’ve been decreasing it. If you move less, you must eat less.

I recently got a work from home job. I've been a whole lot more active working from home than I was in an office job. I wake up to bike ride and walk most mornings, in between tasks I do household chores, after work I go to the grocery store sometimes to run errands. Overall, I feel a whole lot better and it's a better lifestyle.

On Tuesday I had to go downtown since we had meetings that day. Sitting down all day long was the worst. My stomach started hurting, I got bloated, I felt so stuffed up and full.

It was pretty shocking to go from being fairly active throughout the day to just no activity at all. And my body felt it. I'm trying to drain out the excess bloating I got from that day. It's still lingering.

Working from home can be so lonely. I’d have to settle down and get married before I did it.

vestiges of parental abuse and/or sexual assault by fellow millenials

R81 Working from home can get lonely, no doubt about it. But I enjoy how much of my day I get back and I'm a lot more productive. I'm able to work out more often, eat healthier, go see movies in the afternoons or catch up on reading, hang out with my friends more. It's a much better lifestyle than what I had before with commuting.

What's the cutoff birth year for millenials. 1980? 85?

R83 Don't forget to mention the wanking.

Millennials have always been grossly obese and thankfully most will die young.

r48 is your niece Lindy West?

[quote]Fat they may be but many are hung, too.

They're the same they're just sluttier.

[quote] Millennials have always been grossly obese and thankfully most will die young.

You won’t be around to see it.

[quote] What's the cutoff birth year for millenials. 1980? 85?

1982

[quote] Most everyone I know, gay or straight, is relatively thin in their early-mid 30s.

That’s because you hang around femme meth addicts.

[quote] That’s because you hang around femme meth addicts.

Are those the only people who are thin in your corner of Flyoverstan?

What about the opioid addicts? Are they thin or fat?

I know a lot of people who make it work R81

They say the key thing is to schedule something social a few times a week--lunch, coffee--and to get to the gym or something where you're around other people.

It's the food supply that is pumped with fucking addictive sugar and corn syrup, and the obsession with eating out. I legit had a binge eating problem and considered going to an outpatient eating disorders program til i went keto and cut all sugar and most non-vegetable carbs out of my diet. Now I barely have an appetite and look so much better. I can also barely stomach processed food now because the sugar is overpowering. Of course this is a class issue -- I was one of the few in my expensive city and my University/grad school who was in any way overweight. Most of my female friends and gay male friends in Boston and NYC look very gaunt in their 30s from all the spinning classes, Orange theory/CrossFit nonsense, and food restriction.

Also, antidepressants can make people huge. I blew up like a balloon in a month on Zoloft -:. Gained 20 lbs!!

Sleep deprivation, time demands, and commutes that soak up too much free time.

Sleep deprivation is a mean bitch... you end up starving, and your body does its best to turn every last gram of food into body fat.

In high school they were probably sleep deprived, but were able to catch up on weekends & take afternoon naps if they felt like it. Afternoon siestas once you have a demanding career are quite a bit more difficult, and sleeping late all weekend is hard when Saturday is realistically the only day you have to take care of personal errands that require professional assistance (ie, getting the plumber, AC repairman, or whomever to come by). If they're religious and actually go to church on Sunday, their one remaining day to sleep in and rest is fucked too.

Likewise, it's easy to go to the gym when you're in college and have a few hours to kill between classes. When you're tired & sleep-deprived to begin with, hungry, and facing a 2 hour+ trip home, setting aside ANOTHER 2 hours to go to the gym & work out after getting home & eating dinner is basically over the tipping point.

In LA people of all ages, but especially young people, are generally less thin than NY-ers. LA is really "all shapes and sizes".

1981, R84.

1984

What’s this about weight and class?!! I’ve seen professors and librarians that are fat as a house. I’ve seen blue color workers fit as fuck because they do construction. Same for redknecks. Being overweight doesn’t equal low class.

r99 has never been to a state fair in the midwest.

r99 has never been to remote parts of Canada where social isolation, economic hardship, limited educational opportunities conspire to create a culture where poor eating habits, lifestyle choices result in high incidences off obesity. Particularly among millennials as they no longer follow the diets of their ancestors but subsist on comparatively low cost, high calorie junk food.

Then how do you explain the well-educated being fat?

The well-educated are portly lovers of the finer things in life...

Only in America. Go to Europe and most everyone there is fit. Maybe not ripped, even jiggly maybe, but rarely fat.

You should see San Francisco. I’ll take a vapid Instaho who posts selfies all day long over these educated elites who post nothing but food because that is the social outlet here.

Lots of repulsive fatsos.

Even in my boutique workout class, they’re all fat because all they can do is think about what they’re going to eat as their social outlet.

Lots of porkers in England and Germany

Lindy West is disappointed by this thread

What R76 wrote is very accurate. It is a lifelong thing, lifelong habits in eating and exercise that will show at some point (20s, 30s, 40s at the latest) if you're not having a healthy lifestyle.

Personally I'm not super-fit, but I'm certainly not overweight. I coud be fitter and lose about 10 pounds. I'm 40 so I don't really care (I was fit until 30 thereabouts). My looks are a direct translation of my class: educated middle-class, intellectual-left-leaning. If I were fitter it would translate upper-middle-class, which I'm not, and I would feel more right-leaning, too. It just wouldn't express who I am. It's fine like this. I have a great life being just the way I am.

Again, I am not in any way overweight. That I wouldn't want to be, and that wouldn't reflect my lifestyle either so chances are few so far anyway.

Weed, Netflicks and Craft Beer.

True R104. Forgot to mention I was typing from Europe.

[quote]My looks are a direct translation of my class: educated middle-class, intellectual-left-leaning.

So rich people are not fat? Have you seen Trump?

R104 Brits are plenty chubby with many quite obese. Not everyone in Europe is skinny or even average.

R107 has a 40 inch waist. Yeah you are a fattie, hun.

A 40 inch waist? How much is that in cm?

I am not fit or toned, but I am very far from obese. I am not even overweight. And again, at my age this is very common. I was WAY fitter at 25, and 30. It went downhill around 33-34.

I have a 35 inch waist (don't really know what it means).

Most Millennials I encounter on the hookup apps are pudgy and overweight. It’s just the norm. I don’t mind it if they are sexually adventurous.

The most hilariously epic video about the topic ever... "The Loophole" by Garfunkel & Oates

"... but there's a loophole in the scripture that works really well, so I can get him off without going to hell... it's my Hail Mary full of grace, in Jesus' name we go to fifth base..."

^--- Ugh, somehow I accidentally replied to the wrong topic. The video is still hilarious, though... somewhere, somehow, this song needs to be performed by a troupe of drag queens...

R110 I don’t know about men but most rich women are exactly what r7 described - bordering (if not outright) eating disorder thin.

It really is one extreme or another these days and both class and geography play a large part.

I was living in a major European city, was fit, and gained 15 pounds when I moved to the outskirts. Age may have also played a role, including in my decision to move, but there it is.

Fat millennials are fun!

Fat millennials put more effort into pleasing their partner in bed than someone more in shape. I prefer to hook up with the chubbier ones.

I don't judge the overfed, Millenios, or other varieties.

I easily walked an average of 5 miles a day in college all over campus and back and forth to my apartment. I never exercised but was always thin. Then I got a desk job. Pretty simple explanation OP