Why Do People let Themselves Get Obese?

[Last Conformist]

Were I'm from, "serving" means portion, pretty much. It's never used as a measure of food intake in interpersonal contexts. Food intake is mostly given in weight, volume, or number, or alternatively in kcal.

The weightwatchers use a system with "points", but I have no idea how much a point of anything is. Maybe its equivalent to your "servings".

[Provost Harrison]

The Americans use crazy old units. 8oz? WTF?

[Jon Miller]

servings is the best unit..

I ran on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday, and played basketball on friday

unfortunately, friday night I drank (most of.. I gave a freind a little bit) a 32 Oz Margarrita and had one scoop of ice cream

I have no clue how many calories were in that

Jon Miller

[Provost Harrison]

If my memory serves me correctly that is 2lbs so just a bit under 1kg...so I would expect there would be sh*tloads of calories in that. You could probably feed a small African country for a day on it...

[Jon Miller]

a 32 Oz Margarita isn't enough to get me drunk

JM

[Provost Harrison]

Well it won't be if it is full of ice cream

[Whaleboy]

Its those bloody drug takers that are truly scrounging off the state

You had some good **** last year , any more?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Well it won't be if it is full of ice cream

no, I had a 32 Oz margarrita.. and one scoop of ice cream (later)

JM

[Provost Harrison]

Drug-dealing forum!

[Snotty]

only if we get +1s

[Provost Harrison]

I am sure you will get very high (post counts)

[Drogue]

32 Oz margarita? As in a litre? Considering Margarita's are almost half tequila and a quarter triple sec, both of which are around 40% alcohol, you're talking between 16 and 24 units of alcohol, or around 8 oz of pure alcohol That's enough to kill you, let alone get you drunk. Unless you're drinking ones made with lemonade or oodles of weird sweet and sour stuff. Margarita's should be like martini's, strong and pretty short, without mixers.

[Jon Miller]

triple sec is not 40%.. but a good bit less

contreau is 40%

mine was the cadilac one.. with expensive tequila and the like (grand marnier?)

and yes, I drink a lot

Jon Miller

[GePap]

GIven that alcohol has plenty of calories, you probably had a good 600-700 empty calories, and then ice cream.

While you can indulge every once in a while, I hope that is not a common friday night.

As for portion being equal to servings: this is the catch. For example, in the US they sell bags of chips for one and most people would think one bag equal on serving, but most of the time one bag equal 2 to 3.5 servings.

One bowl of pasta, even a medium one, is equal to 3 servings of carbohydrates. A large one like at many restaurants might equal a whole days need. not to speak of some chains that allow you to refill your plate endlessly.

[Last Conformist]

A 32oz Margarita? That's insane.

That said, I must've got quite a few kcal from this friday night. Four glasses of wine, some whiskey, some beer, some vodka, a bit of pie, and a couple hectos of icecream.

(If you find yourself in a discussion like the one below, that's a bad sign:

She: You don't like the music?
Me: No.
She: You've not had enough booze.
Me: Clearly not.
* Gets another vodka and grape *
)