How come there are lots of homeless people who aren’t super skinny? I eat 1-2 meals a day when I’m broke and I’m a guy and I weigh 125 pounds as a result on my broke months.
How come there are lots of homeless people who aren’t super skinny? I eat 1-2 meals a day when I’m broke and I’m a guy and I weigh 125 pounds as a result on my broke months.
I'll add that many times homeless people are using the money they have for something that's going to fill them up which would be a high calorie, high fat food to fill them rather than something healthy and low calorie like salad or fruit that's much more expensive usually.
Many eat at soup kitchens, where there are unhealthy foods, full of carbohydrates, gluten and vegetable oils, as well as canned foods of course.
It's all the sugar, not the saturated fat that enlarges a person. The lie that saturated fat causes weight gain started traction in the 1980s. People back then ate 10 eggs a day and didn't gain weight.
A homeless person doesn't exactly have a nice kitchen to cook healthy meals in. You're eating a lot of convenience foods, and ending up with stuff high in fats, protein, and sugar. Meal planning isn't easy to do without a refrigerator or a stove either.
And this is glossing over the fact that the homeless population runs from skinny to obese, just like the rest of the population in houses. Genetics plays a huge part in your body type, and the idea that everyone who's homeless needs to be rail-thin like Fionna Apple in her "Criminal" video is ridiculous.
confirmed: I was homeless for a while around 2013~2017/18 and having a clean food prep area was a luxury, healthy meals are rare if any, I mostly subsisted on cold instant noodles, canned tuna and halloween candies.
problems with cooking food was that you can't have any leftover, and if you don't clean or forgot to, you'd often wake up to rats, roaches or ants infesting your tent or return to a tent full of flies, swarm of them.
I was around 190 lbs when I went into homelessness, gain to maybe idk around 280 lb or so in like a year, not sure really, time keeping wasn't easy. I got into drugs for a spell and went from 280~300 lbs to a skinny 90~100lb in like a year or so. Drugs are a Great Way to lose weight, you forget to eat.
My weight fluctuated pretty significantly at times when I was homeless. It also depended on what I had access to. In Michigan? I sure ended up with a lot more processed foods than I did at the pantry I used in Oregon, which carried more fruit and things like canned applesauce. But instant stuff was the norm, and that's a lot of high calorie foods with lots of sugars and carbs. But I'm also not exactly genetically predisposed to being overweight, so I lucked out.
Genetics has a lot more to do with it than people like to admit. I'm not homeless anymore, and I have access to a kitchen and proper cold storage. I've got clean, running water and multiple methods of cooking. But my metabolism hasn't slowed as much as many of my peers, and I haven't gotten my middle age gut yet. Ha
I'm an amputee now, and it also takes me more energy to simply walk than it does someone with two legs. This means things like using more oxygen and burning more calories.
man it's was hard to get cold storage for your food, but if you can somehow get a thrown away cooler, and be somewhere near a body of water. Cold storage is possible. only snag was keep the stuff dry and the critters away.
I once remember coming back to my impromptu fridge and found it infested with a bunch of rats.
I've dug a space out in the ground and sunk a cooler for cold storage space, so to speak. That also made it easier to cover with rocks and hide. But the problem for me was always anywhere there was a cold body of water or a good place to sink a cooler for cold storage was also not a good place to get the rest of the supplies you needed and vice versa. So you'd end up with a trek to get supplies, which meant leaving a campsite alone, potentially coming back to everything gone.
As well as the fact that some, certainly not all, homeless folks have some mental health struggles including possibly, significant, depression so they may not get as much activity to work off the foods, especially the high caloric, high fat foods that others have mentioned. Also, many folks that are homeless do have jobs and some money to buy food that makes them happy they just simply do not have enough or stable enough income to afford shelter.
Some folks also have alcoholism or simply like to drink alcohol which is a lot of empty calories and leads to weight gain and can also have the effect of making their stomach distend depending on the progression of their drinking.
If OP reads this far into my comment, I would be interested to know what you weigh “normally” like what is your average weight when you have enough food? How much activity do you partake in, on a regular basis. I have a buddy who eats many high calorie foods, high fat foods and is about 6’1” and weighs 135lbs. He can’t keep weight on so this could also be a personal / metabolic phenomenon as well.
But there are.... There are fat, skinny, medium. Just like with poor and rich. There are all types in every single position of society. Good, bad, fat, skinny, etc all people can be any type of people.
What is the deal here? People think that if you are homeless, then you should be basically a commercial for Sally Struthers saving Ethiopia.
I think it depends on available resources in a given area. The area I'm in right now has food everywhere. There is a pantry that has a daily lunch window that gives you a grocery bag full of food usually with a Safeway deli sandwich. Then just a couple blocks away is a soup kitchen that gives out a sandwich bag. They also do breakfast and dinner but I only go to lunch because that with the food pantry is well over my daily caloric debt.
I walk 10 miles a day and with just those two lunches I'm not losing weight. If someone was so inclined they could get so much more food daily than that utilizing every resources. And this is not even factoring in EBT.
Tldr: Food is abundantly available and typically is the one resource that isn't a problem when it comes to living on the streets
Can I ask where this is? Even in a big city I've been in, i didn't see this much giving and proximity
Vancouver, WA. It's pretty nice here. On top of the soup kitchen and food pantry there are also 3 church's that give away food and bus passes and showers. There is also a special homeless response team meaning cops don't deal with camps at all.
If only they had this everywhere.
Wo. Do homeless people come to vancouver specifically? Is there downsides? I'm wondering what it might be like. When i looked at washington or rural washington agencies, it was not understanding (my disabilities), but that was a different angle than the food and cop-free accessibility that i also worry about
food banks and soup kitchens give out some of the unhealthiest food imaginable. it’s mostly the stuff that local businesses couldn’t sell, whatever walmart donated for a tax write off, and things that distributors don’t want taking up space in their warehouse. wierd product trials like failed attempts at candy or protein bars. massive amounts of week-old pastry glop from the walmart bakery. maybe a few mealy apples thrown in. maybe some sad bagged salad mix once in a while. tons of canned things that should never have been canned in the first place.
Have you read any other posts here at all? When people choose to give to the homeless, they give food. People don’t like giving money, but they’re happy to buy a homeless person food. That food is usually convenience items that no one should be consuming on a regular basis.
Its actually been shown that people in the lowest economic brakets tend to be overweight and less healthy. Factors like chosing fast food, living in food deserts, and not cooking meals. Homeless have no way to cook or store food so what they do it is usually processed snack foods. Even when I am super broke I can still get some veggies and eggs to cook or some rice and whatever - not an option on the street.
That being said people come in all shapes and sizes whether they are housed or not. Kind of a weird thoughtless question.
I don't know. I've never been in a food desert but my dollar store diet consists mostly of canned salmon, tuna, mixed nuts (no peanuts), whole grain bread, canned beans, and sardines. I can feed myself on 6 dollars a day (Canada) and nothing about it is particularly unhealthy.
My vice right now is the 2 for a dollar chocolate bars that run 720 cals total, but if I eat that then I know to go lighter for the rest of the day. I go to soup kitchens but I moderate so even if the food is unhealthy I'm still staying lean. It's partly because of the availability of cheap high calorie foods but mostly that people are simply not mindful of their diet. You can still eat unhealthy food and not gain weight, you just need to eat less of it. I agree though it is alot easier with healthier options, but even a can of beans and a can of salmon is pretty fucking healthy and filling.
Just my perspective, I would not be able to loose weight on the diet you mentioned. I might even gain weight that way. When I was younger and thinner, maybe. Unfortunately for me, my genetics do not seem to favor being thin and being old and arthritic doesn’t help. Not everyone has high metabolism.
In contrast, a friend of mine could put away two lunches of high calorie foods and never gained weight. The difference between our diets was striking. We worked a similarly active job, sometimes walking five miles a night. I know, my phone kept track. I don’t necessarily envy those with a high metabolism because they need to spend quite a bit just to keep up.
No shade to you, I’m glad you’re figuring it out for yourself. Just bringing a different experience to the table.
I was homeless and I was fat for a long time because I ate the absolutely worst food that was high in calories and high in fat. Because I thought that’s what I needed to survive.
Moreover, at the time, they had a dollar menu. That super unhealthy burger was $1.49 and the healthy options were $5 bucks or more.
Additionally, I was stressing out over how to manage basic needs like showering, using a restroom, and having a place to eat. I found confort in food. I have $4 available to spend on food, I’d make the mistake of buying the “on sale” sugar donuts that are $2.99 than to buy a bag of bananas that will spoil. I tried to avoid buying food that could spoil because I wanted it to last. I was squeezing the penny BAD.
So why? Because people eat awful food to survive. Some places that give out food is nothing but the absolute worst things you can put in your body, but “it’s free.”
Not every homeless person is starving the same way. Some people are starving by eating the worst $#!% imaginable because it was free or it was cheap. [+]
On a good day my ex and I would have a few dollars, and eat McDonald's, ordering through the app. A few times we'd get like $15 of food for $5.
I think my favorite was a breakfast deal where you buy one breakfast sandwich, get one free. Thing was- you could buy the cheapest, and get the most expensive for free. Which is what I did.
Because cheap food is unhealthy.
1) I've been homeless, most of the people I met on the streets were skinny or medium sized. Homelessness required a lot of walking and travel to shower, go to the bathroom, find somewhere to post up for the night etc. Even with a car, I walked more then than ever before or since.
2) You get what you can. Whatever the food pantry is serving is what you get -- canned food, expired food, a random treat someone decided to donate on whim. Free meals were much the same, usually high fat and very filling because it was only the one home cooked meal you were going to get that day (unless your town was blessed with a church that did lunch AND a church up the road that did dinner). You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.
3) When you are broke and hungry, a salad isn't what you're going to grab, you'll just wake up broke and hungry in two hours. A sandwich, soup, something more robust with carbs and fat would be the wiser spending choice.
4) Metabolism. No one's body is just like the other. Genetics can make you retain fat in certain places, just like it can make you lose it. Two people could do one meal a day like you and their bodies could react in totally opposite ways. No reason to judge or feel too different, that's just life.
You need to understand that the population of people experiencing homelessness is far larger that what you see on the street. There are hundreds of thousands of people living in their cars that most people never see, and their body types are just as varied as the housed population.
Everyone's body is different. I lost 4 lbs within a month, despite eating. Mostly due to stress of worrying about where to sleepy, etc. That and walking, lots of walking.
Because the food obtainable by the homeless is very very shitty and bad for you. Have to eat when you can eat. Guarding belongings is a 24/7 job that means no targeting exercises or little at all. Excellent question.
You can be homeless and go to the gym. A membership is actually a great way to prevent what you're describing because they have lockers you can safely store your belongings in. It's the one place you really do not have to worry.
Sure you can but you also have to be able to afford it. Homeless. Not wealthy and you have to be able to get to a gym also. I can tell you now that a gym is not a priority for most homeless and they do get plenty of exercise walking. If you live in a vehicle it’s easier but when you’re meeting basic needs all day everyday it’s exhausting already. I’m newly housed and getting doctors set up and having regular meals and sleep are bigger priority to me at this time but my weight is next. I gained 40 pounds since September because I had to travel south for 5 months and my food choices were terrible and even things labeled organic down there aren’t. They’re also massively expensive.
Where I am anyone can file for welfare and collect 6 or 700 per month so it's not like 20$ it's unattainable. There's also plenty in walking distance if you're in the city. I don't think it's that they can't it's just they don't have it as a priority. Understandable but there are advantages and I think it's worth considering. Oh, and you can shower there. That's another huge issue solved.
The question was why are some homeless people overweight. There was nothing like that where I have been and some people don’t stay in one place. Like me. I have sometimes hit 3 states in a month. Not being housed has major drawbacks when it comes to food especially during very specific times like very cold weather.
I had a gym membership and I was only able to use it 3 times in 5 months. Yes there are things you can do and maybe you’re not taking into account the stress of not being housed. Even if you are able to shower after each work out you have to have the provisions for that. There’s only 24 hours in a day. We don’t get extra time. If you’re male it is easier than being female. I realize you’re trying to be helpful but there are very valid reasons for overweight homeless people and that’s what I am writing here. I’m sure everyone appreciates your input.
Malnutrition causes swelling. Ask me how I know.
because, believe it or not, human beings come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
Food has never been a concern for me ( Chester county. )
It's eating crap like McDonald's every day instead of car cooking.
How come there are a lot people who aren’t homeless but still have ravaged skin, or damaged hair, or dress shabby?
You & many others are not homeless; but still have wrinkles & clogged pores, dry uneven hair, and wrinkled clothes. Should the advantages you have give you no excuse to de-ugly?
Dude I’ve gained almost 10 lbs since being on the streets. I wanna say some of its muscle but who knows. They feed us bread on bread on bread man, you can’t really hold onto food sometimes so you gotta eat it all then and there, at the shelter sometimes we get entire pints of ice cream or family size chip bags donated and whatever you don’t eat you have to throw away. Doesn’t help when you’re hungry later and without but oh well. My treat meals are Mickey d’s or a big ass bowl of grits at my boyfriend’s house and that’s not good for me either. All that sugar and cream has gotta add up too from the coffee…
Free food (soup kitchens/foodbanks etc.) tends to be poorly nutritious high carb/high fat bs.
Cheap food (fast food) tends to be the same.
Some homeless people are willing to eat people's leftovers or "trash" in the form of unopened/expired food by local businesses/restaurants etc.
Healthy meals are rare and the only affordable hot meals are things like fast food. Even if you do go to a food bank most of those have unhealthy food as well.
Hey mangos give the guy a break, you may be right and op might think that all homeless are sticks, that's why they asked. My opinion is that I've never eaten better than when homeless, I hover around 115 cuz I'm 5 foot even but since I've been a vagabond I've shot up to 127. I'm turning into an old lady's cat lol. Too many mangoes I think.
Sincerely Quirky Blurky 🥭
It was an honest question I think. I don't see malice here.
Still dumb though. Op seems like a nice person just trying to understand.
It's ignorant, but it makes sense. Food costs money, homeless people do not stereotypically have money. Ergo, skinny homeless people. The widespread availability of food from pantries and soup kitchens isn't common knowledge.
Again though, I've seen homeless people have huge pockets. Things aren't as we expect then to be more often than not.
Sincerely Quirky Blurky 🥭
That's why I said it was ignorant in the naive sense. If you're not familiar with these things it's easy to make OPs mistake.
You're not wrong.
Sincerely Quirky Blurky 🥭
There are people without homes with every body type imaginable.
I think maybe you're sincere in your question, but it's a dumbass question.
In addition to the assorted thoughts on this, there is the stress factors, their bodies holding on to caloric intake due to the lack of stability and exposure to varying temperatures. They could also have thyroid issues untreated or their diets are putting their thyroids into not working optimally. And other nutrient deficiencies. I saw a man literally starving in Vancouver, Washington two years back that was homeless and I could see he was getting close to death. Some of us are going to die with a lot of excess fat and some just bones and it’s equally sad as we all have our struggles and so much we are ignorant about that would help us living better and longer.
The stress and boredom of homelessness itself can also lead to overeating and unhealthy eating
As others have said food is often the one thing that's abundant in many areas because non homeless people are more likely to give out food than any other kind of help/resource.
That food tends to be really unhealthy and when you're stressed out and depressed on the street all that unhealthy food can become a coping mechanism.
You end up eating a lot because you're bored and stressed out and often eat something really unhealthy like an entire bag of donated candy because it's comforting and its one of the few simple pleasures/indulgences you can enjoy.
Im just gonna say that when I was on antipsychotics, i ate at most 900 calories a day and yet became obese as a result of weight gain as a side effect of the medication
Lots of reasons why someone can be fat or skinny or average
Calories in vs calories is calories in vs calories out. 900 calories a day (max?) and gaining weight is ridiculous,
Stop spreading myths.
That's an oversimplification of a complex biological process. Do you even know what it's like to be on antipsychotics long term? Weight gain is literally listed as a common side effect. There are many medications, and for that matter health and hormonal conditions that can cause weight gain besides just eating too much. Are you a medical professional, or do you just comment reactionary shit for whatever reason?
I also have thyroid disorder. A year after going off abilify I made no change to my diet or exercize habits and I lost, unintentionally, 50lbs in one month. There are also many other medical reasons for weight gain/loss. Cushings disease is one example, weight gain due to a literal brain tumor. Gastropareisis can also cause unexpected weight loss despite how much one eats.
Yall will accuse disabled people of lying just because, let's be real, you buy into the societal disgust of fat people existing and see weight gain as a moral failure which is fucking stupid. I'm not even fat anymore, by the way, but it doesn't and shouldn't matter. It's also extremely disrespectful to deny someone their actual life experiences just because it doesn't fit your shitty narrative. Wake up, the world has nuance and doesn't care for any agendas nor for disgust-based morality.
Are you 12?
I have lots of digestive health problems because my parents drugged me as a child with drugs that damaged my body. I have never been able to lose the weight for 20 years.
High carbs, nutrition deficit.
Forever chemicals in the food.
Because cheap food packs alot of stuff filled with high calories. Like canned food has a shit to of sodium and eating alot of sodium is no good for you. Add depression which might make you eat more. I lived off McDonald's because I could eat for a 3 bucks a day
American prosperity, unprecedented in history, has redefined poverty. Obesity is a significant health issue of Americans in poverty; this is not the case in Ethiopia.
Alcohol makes you bloated
Poor diet and not able to get medication. Some meds keep you from getting swole.
Stop looking at homeless people as a different species of humans..We, they, I am exactly the same as you. In the homeless community you would be surprised to learn that we have the same problems you housed folks do. We have good, bad , sober, drunks , addicts, hypochondriacs, Karen's, religious, anti religious, working people, not working people, people who lay up on the government, people that refuse to lay up on the government, mentally ill, not mentally ill, and much more that many of you housed people all share within your on families. So stop with the labeling someone who does not have a home like they are something from a different planet . We breathe the same air you breathe, share the same earth, use the same grocery store, go to the same Walmart, even work at the mall you shop at , like myself on my part time job, then for my second job I crawl in a security vehicle and watch over you while you sleep keeping your gated communities safe and doing my checks and rounds to ensure your safety. Yet I don't have a house to sleep in. So please stop with the label B.S. and the stigma and start looking at people from the inside not the outside.
Fat and sugar. A lot of homeless end up eating the same kind of garbage that the housed eat, maybe cheaper brands.
Uhhh obesity doesn't require wealth? It requires a poor diet and poor genetics. Lots of people are fat because they can't afford to eat healthy enough to be at their ideal weight.
This one.
Hell, even before homelessness, my mom used to eat so many salads and veggies, she honestly ate fairly well. Her doctor even mentioned her blood work looked better than his. Still, she was 260+lbs.
Genetics plays a role. Stress plays a role. Movement plays a role. Now that she's homeless, she has lost some weight, and it's mostly stress.
Plus, people are just naturally different sizes. There are naturally skinny people. There are also naturally fatter people.
Constipation causes bloated bellies, having to hold it in for prolonged periods of time. Being only fed fiber poor foods.
Food stamps. (EBT)
When the body realizes it's starving whether by choice or circumstance it stores and saves fat and food and takes longer to digest the body will always fight to win.
Under eating does not make you fat.
Probably because the amount of food consumed doesn't directly correlate to weight gain or loss. Also, the quality of food you are able to obtain while homeless is significantly decreased. We have to eat the world's scraps, i.e. the parts that people with better resources didn't want or need. That typically includes foods high in carbs and fats. They're calorically dense, and the nutritional balance is non-existent. The only time in my entire life I have ever been skinny was 2015-2017 when I first became homeless and my whole paycheck was going to a friend to let me stay on their couch. I visited the hospital more times than I ever had in my life prior, because all I could afford to eat was ramen and rice and my days were filled with heavy physical labor. I'm happy to be fat again, it means I am maintaining a healthy eating schedule and there is actual food to eat. However, that comes at a price too. I stay in a shelter and get 2 meals a day, and each day those meals are 1. A deli sandwich with milk for lunch (salt, fat, carbs, more fat and carbs) and 2. A carb with a side of more carbs and a vegetable thrown in for color, maybe with a protein hiding somewhere in that monstrous pile of uncooked rice I'm consuming. I eat it because it's available, and I refuse to eat dysfunctionally the way I did as a teen- young 20 something. And I'm grateful, because I know many people who haven't survived during harsher months because of food scarcity. But the food provided isn't good for my body, either, and I stay at a place filled with older disabled women with laundry lists of health issues. I think the last thing this world needs is more critique on the body types of people without resources.
having a hard time thinking this ain’t a troll - the destitute to diabetes correlation around the economics of sugar and poverty is conventional knowledge now—i believe you wanted to come on here to offer a broader criticism of homeless people
instead of fumfering around it why don’t you share with the audience what you’re really trying to get at here?
I had this doubt when I was younger, I think its a valid question.
Thanks
That's Genealogy
Eating food that is junk empty calories will make you gain weight. Eating no protein and eating mostly carbs will make you gain weight, not eating regularly will make you gain weight. It’s not necessarily only large portion eating that makes a person gain.
It is 100% am issue of portion size. The problem is that unhealthy food has a lot of calories for a small portion making it easier to overeat.
Eating large portion of healthy food will make you gain weight too.
You eat what you get. Not what you want. The food is very cheap. Its getting you going, but its very unhealthy and full of presseratives. Its just sustenance
The high consumption of carbohydrates and fats made them sustainable to fat storage.
Lol I gained weight when I was unhoused because I didn’t have access to the gym or healthy foods it was really weird
Hate to break it to you but some people can’t even afford to eat 1-2 meals a day and will go days without eating even if they aren’t homeless
When I’m stressed I tend to gain weight, also the unhealthy food that’s the cheapest will fill you the longest
Everybody’s body responds differently to homelessness and the way it affects their lives. Weight loss and gain isn’t always as simple as calories in being less than calories out. It’s a complex equation that involves a variety of other social determinants of health many of which unhoused folks are not able to access securely.
Chronic stress which is a huge part of the lives of homeless people contributes heavily to the development of auto immune disorders on the body which can cause the body to hold onto extra body fat in response to nutrient deficiency for fear of starvation as well as in an inflammatory response to the environment they are living in.
So unless someone is truly in a situation of major and consistent caloric deficit daily and is on the move constantly (which not every homeless community member is in that situation) without any of the above factors I’ve just named they are not going to necessarily fit the mold of what OP considers an acceptably think homeless looking body. This applies to folks who are not homeless and are in similar circumstances of being chronically stressed about their housing and their ability to take care of themselves or their families.
Genetics also play a huge role in one’s likelihood to be overweight or obese, much more than just their habits and lifestyle. Weight and appearance are no more of a reliable indicator of one’s overall health than it is than they are of determining someone’s access to nutritionally sufficient food or other factors that make someone healthy. So I wouldn’t try to judge whether or not someone you perceive to be homeless is or isn’t doing well or has access to what they need to survive and live a good quality of life based solely on the size of their body and whether or not you consider them to be skinny.
Also based on this dude’s other posts in this community I’m gonna go ahead and venture a guess that he’s or asking questions like this in good faith. https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless/s/WazvJm8VVV
Because they give us things that are high and sugar and fat to ensure our survival. Out here you can spend as many as 4000 cal a day, if you’re getting that much but not being active is why you get fat. Also, could be that there are a lot of food lines around, and you should start looking into them for yourself as well.they are not just for the Homeless , but for those who need something to eat
I’m homeless and I’m like 160 pretty skinny
All the free meals are pretty high in calories whether food boxes or brown bags with white bread sandwiches and children's lunch snacks, chips, cakes, cookies, crackers, etc.
You tend to overeat because you don't know when your next meal is, but free food is easy to find, so you don't really skip meals either.
You're often limited to shelf stable stuff which isn't the most wholesome or healthy eating like a 10 year old was given a $10 bill and sent into the gas station for provisions.
Not every homeless person is addicted to something, but what you're addicted to will influence your weight too. Even a pretty active alcoholic is going to be pudgy.
As someone with the difficult job of managing a hibernation type body, it is truly difficult for some of us to maintain a healthy weight. I don’t eat much and because I have some income I can do more to make sure my foods are healthy. But if I slip even for one meal, my body can treat it as license to store it away. This is getting more difficult as I get older and I can’t find work that is active.
For the homeless doing this without refrigeration or washing facilities can be almost impossible. Another thing that can be impossible is getting much exercise. If one is in a tent city, your space needs to stay defended or you will lose it. So if you want to go to work, the store or anywhere else, you either need to buddy up or take everything with you. This means for many they just don’t move around. Others will find a safe space away from others, but this means staying put for a time, going and foraging for a bit and then staying put again.
Add on top of it all the mental, emotional and physical challenges that have put many of these people on the streets and maybe it starts to make sense. Take away the ability to know what is healthy and pile on cheap crappy foods and it’s amazing that more people in general are not even larger.
Most of them around here go eat at the multiple places that serve food for free three times a day…fat fat all day long
The soup kitchen I go to does breakfast, lunch, and dinner and you can have as much as you want provided you just get back in line. The other day I had 15 greasy Buffalo wing with maybe 4 cups of rice, a cup of jello, and a couple buns because I hadn't eaten that day. It was fucking awesome. It would be very easy to get fat going there.
I’ve been to some horrible cities and some great cities
Same. Two cities ago getting enough to eat on for was a full time job and my diet was 80% bread. Sandwiches for almost every meal, and then a donated loaf if lucky.
It's simple mathematics. You gain weight when you eat and drink more calories than you burn, and you lose weight when you burn more calories than you eat and drink.
A lot of homeless people drink alcohol and depending on how much you drink, that alone can cause someone to become overweight even if you don't eat much. Ironically, I was fat before I became homeless when I was a non-functioning alcoholic drinking 1 liter of vodka most days. I believe 1 shot of vodkq contains around 60 calories, so you can see how that caused me to gain weight quickly.
Whether you eat once a day or 6 times a day, it's the total amount of calories that matter. It's tougher to eat healthy while homeless due to not having a fridge and usually, fast food places and gas stations are the most convenient options and usually have high calorie junk food. But eating healthy can still be done. I still eat a lot of fast food, but instead of having a super sized combo, ill get the smallest hamburger with only pickles and onions that they have or chili or a soft serve vanilla ice cream and diet soda. Takes away my hunger and has a reasonable amount of calories.
Drugs.
Lol what?
Not pot. Heroin, fentinal, and whatnot...
Edit:- I've heard some people actually gain weight when using heroin. Bad stuff. Never touched it.
Where I was at I would see all the fatter homeless with half pints of ice cream all the time . personally I didn't eat .
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