"You only eat twice a week? That explains it" - or, how fat people think you have to eat to be thin So this is an amusing little story from a few months ago that makes me chuckle every time I think of it. For a few months earlier this year I worked as a hostess at a cafe part-time. Easy work, mostly seating people at their tables when they arrive and ringing them up at the register after they've eaten. This place had AMAZING food. One night, two of our super-hammy regulars were there, I was being polite and making small-talk as I rang them up. I said something along the lines of "I love working here cause the food is awesome and they give us a free meal every shift."  One of the planets eyed me up and down and said "you don't look like you eat the food here a lot," and instead of saying "well you look like you eat too much of it," I said "oh, well I only work here two nights a week." Apparently he misheard me cause he said "oh, you only eat twice a week? That explains it" without even batting an eye or being generally surprised at the notion that someone would ever possibly only eat twice a week. This is how fat people actually think you have to eat to be thin. This guy legit just thought I only ate on two days out of every week, and that's how I maintained a healthy bmi. It's always extremes with these people.  (FYI for any lurking fatties: I do in fact eat every day but I also exercise every day and don't overeat. And for all those "you're so lucky you can eat whatever you want and not get fat" retards: so can you, just don't eat TOO MUCH of whatever you want.)