An internal debate at every meal

Healthy = happy

No.
Source: my desire to be unalive because life is pain, and burger is mmmmmm
- If you had ever been fat and then lost a lot of weight, you would know that the physical feeling is night and day different. The feeling of being fat is exhausting, your joints hurt, you're tired all the time, it's truly awful. You'd wonder how you could stand being fat. At least that's how it felt for me.
If we are arguing that way then you don't need to be skinny to be healthy. There is a middle ground between skinny and overweight.

Immediate vs future happiness

get regular exercise and be both. Literally like 40% of my motivation for staying active is that it lets me eat more.

you cannot exercise your way out of a bad diet is the general advise. a snickers bar is 73 calories and to burn 100 calories you have to run a 10 minute mile.
you simply can accumulate calories at a way faster rate than you can reasonably exercise.
- That's a good point but it's also important to note that a Snickers bar has much less nutritional value than the cheeseburger shown in the original image. So if you're training for a marathon or something, you can totally get away with a cheeseburger every night, but not the equivalent amount of snickers (you will feel like absolute shite)
- i think that's technically true but reductive, you will continue to burn calories at a higher rate for quite a while after any reasonably strenous exercise and as you get stronger it becomes easier to burn more calories, thus letting you increase your daily calorie budget.
  I'm not saying that five minutes of cardio will suddenly let you eat 5 cakes, but have you seen the diets that weightlifters keep? with a lot of muscle and frequent heavy exercise you can burn such an amount of calories every day that eating 3 pizzas is a good starter course.
  Also we aren't talking about a bad diet, just eating a bit too much. Of course exercise isn't going to fix you eating snickers instead of vegetables but it will absolutely fix eating one too many burgers.
Wait, what? No one told me about that.

Skinny = long happy Nomnomnom = short happy

Continuous nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnoms… = longer happy

You can always lose weight but you can never get back a missed hamburger.

I alternate back-and-forth, so that I'm never truly skinny, nor truly happy.

Or maybe just stop overeating? It's way less about what you eat than it is about how much you eat.

no it's very much about what you eat, if you put a bunch of greens in your food you'll feel satisfied much faster and for longer.
No! You have to count every calorie meticulously, swap every meal for boring salad and run ten miles every day!
I'm way too busy to do any of that, I get chronic hunger pains before bed and I'm also a super taster which means anything but KFC, donuts and coca cola is super unpalatable to me!
How dare you insinuate that I'm obese because I can't just eat a little less, you don't know my body, my will power is actually amazing except when it comes to putting down the fork! Eating a bit less is extremely hard you fucking fat hater!
- ypur comment does read like something from /r/fatpeoplehate
  I would encourage you to be more empathetic towards people strugglong with weight issues, or at least be less of a dick about it, that doesn't help amyone

In Las Vegas, we have a local chain called SkinnyFats that has two menus, a "healthy" menu and a "happy" menu

Switch to things with more protein, it keeps you sated with fewer calories. Count calories, not too torture yourself, but to train yourself to make better choices. Do a few simple strength exercises every day, to build muscle and to stay motivated.

Source: down ~20kg from top weight

Steak is great and it's good for you. I love mine cooked in ghee and heavily salted
- lol except studies are more and more showing that red meat is actually not particularly good for you, and steaks are quite possibly the least ethical thing to eat.

Obesity is significantly associated with depression.

I lost 35lbs eating burgers and pizza. These things aren't mutually exclusive. The fact that people think they are is a testament to how poor health education is.

I'm very happy.

Always go for happy, skinny is just a bonus

I'm too skinny. (96-98LBS at 19Y/5'4")

Can I have Happy?

Name one ingredient in that burger that is unhealthy. Bread? Meat? Cheese? Greens? Half a teaspoon of ketchup? Just check your caloric intake and eat whatever the heck you want.

That amount of downvotes you're getting because fat people hate hearing that "yes, you could just eat a bit less!"
Your bodyweight is 100% correlated to the amount of calories you consume/burn. Eat less calories than your base metabolic rate and you could lose weight on a diet of pizza and just sitting on the sofa all day!
Bread - processed crap with minimal micronutrients, preservatives and coloring agent (for nice white flour /s)
There doesn't really exist an "healthy" or "unhealthy" food, it's just about your eating habits...
- I would say deep fried Oreos are pretty unhealthy
- There is clearly a benefit to a balanced diet, but when it comes to weight loss, calories is the only thing that matters.

2 won't do ...lol

Reminds me of the dog learning what fat is.

Be both. Fat and happy.

I think you misread that.
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