The "thin people eat more" myth You often hear fat people saying that when they go out to eat, their thin friends eat more - therefore the fat people just have crappy genes. Well, I was out with a group of friends the other night, and we went to a ramen place that serves large portions. My thin friends and I barely ate during the day to make room for the excess of food and calories, while the one overweight friend ate as she always does (aka lots of sugar and junk), had dinner with an appetizer, had ice cream later and said she wasn't full yet. What fats don't seem to realize is that we account for any excess calories - we work out longer, we eat less the day of, or we're just not as hungry the days after. They shovel food into their mouth 24/7, get the same food as us when we go out and then complain that they're still fat. I'm sure this has been explained to them, but of course the solution is the temporary discomfort of hunger, so it's not like they'll do anything about it.