Apologies for the low resolution. It was a mobile ad and all I could get was a screenshot.

  • @chepox@sopuli.xyz
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    802 years ago

    You cannot tell me that dude (duddette?) doesn’t have an eating disorder. That looks sickly and horrible.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      Meh, I dated a girl thinner than that. People were always making comments like yours, but to her face.

      She had one barely functioning kidney. Dumped her because she was foul tempered, but I heard she got a transplant!

      But yes, eating disorder is a fair guess for a model like that.

    • FauxPseudo
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      -62 years ago

      I used to look like that from ages 15 to 30. I was eating 6000 calories a day to maintain my weight. I don’t know about that dude (dude is gender neutral), but it is possible they are struggling to not lose weight. Unlikely, but possible.

      • @JCreazy@midwest.social
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        122 years ago

        Someone who eats 6000 calories a day cannot look like this. It is not scientifically possible. That energy has to go somewhere and unless you’re sprinting continuously for hours on end it’s just not happening.

        • FauxPseudo
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          -42 years ago

          Yet I did. 135 pounds and 6’2” for 15 years. You are assuming that everyone absorbs nutrition equally or that people burn at the same rate. I was a human space heater and, because my blood pressure was too low to get a driver’s license, I was walking up to 7 miles a day. But that exercise probably didn’t make a dent in anything.

          • @JCreazy@midwest.social
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            112 years ago

            I’m not here to say what your experiences are. I just have some numbers. The total daily energy expenditure of the average male of that weight and height aged 18-30 who does intense exercise daily is around 3300 calories a day and this is on the high range which means if one were to consume 6000 calories a day and use 3300, they would still have 2700 calories still in their body. A pound of fat is about 3500 calories therefore at that rate you would gain approximately 23 pounds a month. I’m not arguing. Just saying the numbers don’t add up.

            • FauxPseudo
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              -22 years ago

              “average” is doing a lot of lifting there. And, again you are assuming normal absorption of calories. The numbers don’t add up because you aren’t considering all the variables. What’s the calorie need differential between an ectomorph and an endomorph? What role does hormone and thyroid play?

              Yes, you are arguing. You might be using math but you are saying I wasn’t me.

              • @Carnelian@lemmy.world
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                92 years ago

                What’s the calorie need differential between an ectomorph and an endomorph?

                None. Somatotypes are a pseudoscience and have been completely debunked.

                What role does hormone and thyroid play?

                The difference between the “fastest” and “slowest” metabolism in healthy people of the same weight is at most 300kcal per day, which is significant, but couldn’t account for a missing ~3k surplus per day

                There are however several conditions which cause the body to simply not to process food (malabsorption is the term to look up), which is what must have been happening to you.

                It’s very common for people to misestimate their calories by massive amounts, which is why people are expressing doubts, but what you’re describing is a real thing that happens

              • @JCreazy@midwest.social
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                42 years ago

                The variables don’t matter because even if they were included, they wouldn’t make up for the lost calories. Oh well. It’s not important.

                • FauxPseudo
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                  -32 years ago

                  Saying variables don’t matter is cheating at math and taking a very simplified view of metabolism of food intake. It was very important to me when I was counting every calorie and tried to lose any weight because 5 lb could send me to the hospital.

      • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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        42 years ago

        My brothers were swimmers and skinny and small (and really fast, won national titles) and that combination of young, male, and active does create a black hole of metabolism. I also had a friend who was 6’6" and 140lb but healthy too, poet not athlete. He ate, it’s just hard to eat enough to fund that much height.

        The model though, that’s an aesthetic choice not an aspirational body type. Androgynous and otherworldly is what I think they are going for. It’s not mainstream attractive, certainly.