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Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 October 24, 12:38:02
I can stuff my face as much as I like, lounge around all day, sleep 24 hours a day, never exercise ... I never put on an OUNCE of weight and never have. Of course, there are plenty of people who are bloody great big fat lumps because they stuff their faces out of boredom or lack of motivation to do anything else, but there are also plenty who are overweight because they can't help it and that's a different matter altogether. I have always been underweight no matter what I eat or what I do, it's the way my body metabolism works. I'm not a big eater anyway, never have been, but it wouldn't make any difference if I was. I can eat as many fattening foods as I like and it doesn't affect my weight one iota. My eldest son eats enough to feed the average horse and he never puts on weight either. It's all in the genes.
My Mom is the same way she has never weighed more than 100 lbs except when she was pregnant. her activity level is minimal at best and she still remains toothpick thin. My daughter on the other hand is an active Mom of 2 works,goes to the gym daily before work and jogs 3 miles every other day and still struggles to lose even a pound and her weight remains at 170 lbs 30 lbs more than she is supposed to weigh .and she is a light eater.so in humans genetics and metabolism are the deciding facttors for weight gain or loss. my weight contantly fluctuates on the downward side.I might weigh 128 today the dr.today but weigh me a week later and Ive lost 5 or 10 pounds so I never know what the scale will say .I have an ultra fast metabolism
Hook:
Seems like a lot of things affect weight. I was rail-thin until I got married, then after a couple of decades I was up to 300 pounds. Switched from a 2 liter of regular Coke a day to diet Coke and lost 30 pounds in as many weeks. Altered my diet slightly and I'm down to 240 at the moment, where it seems to have stabilized.
My wife is 4'11", and weighed 84 pounds when I met her at age 18. When I was 300 pounds, she was around 180. She'd dropped a little by the time she was diagnosed with diabetes. She started watching her diet carefully, limiting portions and severely limiting carb intake, and she's now down to 108 after about a year and a half.
I think it would have been better if she'd stopped losing around 120.
Hook
Sagana:
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It's all in the genes.
Yep and me too. I'm just skinny - not in particularly good shape. My mom was the same until after she had her 4th child (I only had 3, so I guess I skipped that part) and so is my dad. After I hit 40, my belly got all slack - not really being overweight but just a pot belly thing that looked more or less like the not fit sims do (stupid in other words ;)). My metabolism is still high and no amount of change in diet was going to make that go away so I picked up dancing to get rid of it (after I whined a lot and decided I hated looking at myself anymore) and that worked like a charm for toning up. But I've never been terribly active - I'm an indoors kind of person - and while I'm what my friend calls "a savory" meaning I prefer salty snacks to sweet ones, I've never watched what I eat (and a whole bag of potato chips is no better for you than ice cream). It's muchly genes/metabolism.
There are two brothers that I'm pretty sure came with University (I know I didn't make them, I'm just not sure where I got them :)) Almeric and Aldric. Aldric is very fit and wears glasses. Almeric started off overweight. I thought they were cute, but Almeric's bodyshape just didn't look right with his face, so I went to the trouble to have him get fit. But point being, I really do think he started out "fat" in the bin or wherever he came from.
Other than something like that, I usually don't bother with fitness at all, but don't let them overeat too much and they stay more or less in the middle. For some purposes, I wish I could get someone truly overweight for a storyline or whatever, and have a couple of meshes (but what I'm looking for is sometimes kind of hard to find). People come in all different shapes and I'm willing to have that in my game (same as colors and sexual orientation and anything else I can), but I don't like the way Maxis did it. Actually I think it's *more* insulting that they don't really allow anyone to look right, than if they'd just gone ahead and had some "fat" meshes - like no one would choose to use them or something :p
vector:
Come Christmas, people are going to start making Santa skins, and unless there's a decent custom mesh involved, he's going to be a skinny-but-pregnant Santa.
And it's going to be stupid.
Oddysey:
Quote from: sagana on 2005 October 24, 17:02:17
People come in all different shapes and I'm willing to have that in my game (same as colors and sexual orientation and anything else I can), but I don't like the way Maxis did it. Actually I think it's *more* insulting that they don't really allow anyone to look right, than if they'd just gone ahead and had some "fat" meshes - like no one would choose to use them or something :p
At least part of the reason why the Maxis meshes aren't very realistic, and don't vary much from the baseline, is that if you get too far away from the basic mesh you start having to modify animations, which was probably not worth the time from their point of view. I know they used that as the reason for why they don't have a different mesh for the "fit" body type. Technically, it's the same reason why all sims of a given age are the same height.
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