damnit im an old woman X(

and nemi you know im always trying to impress ONLY you

"I heard that the Irish commoners did before the Potatoe famine, and they tended to be healthier than continental commoners who ate bread."

They did so cause potatoes contain quite some more calories than any cereal for the same weight. It requires less labour too. So, potatoes made an excellent replacement (until the potatoe infestation) for poor people. It was the main thing to eat for a little while, but never the only thing (it never completely replaced bread). Also, Flanders had the same problem as Ireland, although in a smaller scale. This was because it had an enormous amount of very small peasants (with about 1 hectare of land)..

Also, it's not really your diet that makes you fat (at least, if it's sort of normal), it's indeed the lack of excercice.. And beer.....

...They also ate potatoes in Ireland because it rains a hell of a lot there which is good for potatoes but not so good for other crops.

*what elho said

lol @ humi

gee now that Lent is over, why dont I have a 5000 calorie double bacon cheeseburger and large fries!

nah diet doesn't count lol

That's tottaly the way to slim, don't eat out of buckets

why do you think they stole his bucket in icanhascheeseburger?
cos he looked to fat.

You drank deep of the distilled potato?

Nooo they stole me bucket

Complaining about having a fast/slow metabolism is mumbo jumbo. People are fat or thin based on how much food they eat, what types of food they eat and how much exercise they do.

If you are fat it is not because you have a slow metabolism it is because you are greedy and lazy.

"If you are fat it is not because you have a slow metabolism it is because you are greedy and lazy."

Not quiet true, not everyone eats cause he's to greedy or lazy, in fact I think that has verry less to do with it,, cause I'm rather greedy on eating and lazy aswell and I'm rather thin. Anyone ever watched this where two people, a skinny and a fatty, have to switch their meals for a week, having to cook for oneanother to make them realize they both are wrong, (one skinny believed she had found the imortallity elixer, by not eating much at all, just 4 beans a day and she was 40, but looked like a 9yearold.
Anyways, there a skinny thought aswell that fat people ate cause they were to greedy, lazy and had no self respect for their body, but then she heard the story of this other person, whom wasn't always big, but she lost her only son and got depressed...
Another reason some get bigger is due pregnancies, and once you are I think it's pretty hard to get back again.

Anyways, there they also have this 'anti-bigbutts' thing, in which they give/try out some tips, like riding a horse (or a fake machine that imitates the moves, or special shoes that make it as if you were walking in sand, or military trainings)

Well, I'm not thin...

I'm pretty average, actually.

But I have a slow metabolism. Not because I have to move around less weight. I'm pretty weighty. And just pretty.
But I have had a thyroid gland problem since I was about 14. So I can't really have a fast metabolism.

But I agree with SD, I could be fat if I just were greedy and lazy. So I'm not.