For Guys: Would you rather be overweight or underweight
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Underweight, I already am (slightly so) and it doesn't bother me much.
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I'd rather be underweight. It doesn't seem to have as much of a stigma (by far) as overweightness does.
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overweight, but not obese.
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Underweight, like I am now. It'd be easier for me to put weight on (if I tried) than it would be to lose weight, given how lazy I am. And I look normal with clothes on, if a little on the skinny side, whereas if I was overweight it'd be impossible to hide it.
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Overweight. Been made fun of throughout my entire life for being skinny.
I suppose I am not technically underweight, but I often feel like I am. It is damn near impossible for me to gain any weight at all (no matter how much I eat/workout).
If I was overweight I'd work my *** off and turn that fat into muscle
I suppose I am not technically underweight, but I often feel like I am. It is damn near impossible for me to gain any weight at all (no matter how much I eat/workout).
If I was overweight I'd work my *** off and turn that fat into muscle
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Underweight - being overweight is hard on the body.
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It's interesting because we want the opposite of what we are. Like, you'd probably love to be my size and I'd love to be skinny like you.Overweight. Been made fun of throughout my entire life for being skinny.
I suppose I am not technically underweight, but I often feel like I am. It is damn near impossible for me to gain any weight at all (no matter how much I eat/workout).
If I was overweight I'd work my *** off and turn that fat into muscle
It's weird like that. We aren't satisfied with what we look like.
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I think both underweight guys and overweight guys are equally unattractive to women, and both will be ridiculed, but underweight guys tend to have fewer health issues and more energy. I was really underweight at one point, but I changed that.
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Being underweight can be just as hard, but in a different way. It all depends by how much.
Personally, I'd love to be underweight. I have been overweight my entire life and have always struggled with it. I'd really like to know how it would feel to be 100 pounds lighter.
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Overweight guys are still seen as masculine, not as Hank Hill says "twig boys".
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That's changing. Being overweight is now seen as average, since it literally is average in a nation where 40% of adults are either overweight or obese.
And I seem to recall statistics from one state where a whopping 44% of the kids were obese (I emphasize that since I don't mean merely overweight, but a BMI of 30+). How the hell do they decide on the playground who the fat one is so they can tease them?:stu I was picked on endlessly at as the fat kid, but back decades ago being fat actually made you stand out from the crowd; now most of the crowd is fat and me from 1985 would be nothing out of the ordinary on a 2009 playground.
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From what I understand, that's not quite how it works. Fat doesn't turn into muscle when you work out. Instead, it's always a at least two step process. If you're overweight, you work on cutting the fat while building a little muscle, then work on bulking up to build muscle while gaining a little fat, then cut the remaining fat (and end up losing a bit of muscle). If you're underweight, you have to bulk up to build muscle while gaining fat, then cut the fat (and end up losing a bit of muscle). Both overweight and underweight people have to take time to do it depending on how overweight or underweight they are.If I was overweight I'd work my *** off and turn that fat into muscle
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Underweight, but not a lot under.
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