I wasn’t the most popular growing up and I remember becoming popular and developing a larger friends group in late high school. Above all, I remember going out for pizza when I was 17. At home, we always shared a small (frozen or delivery or restaurant) pizza - me, my sister, and my mom. Eating pizza meant having a slice or two for dinner (with salad, there was always salad). So this also always meant prior discussions on the toppings. Therefore, going out with new friends, I was highly confused why no one was really engaging in my question about what kind of toppings they want, everyone was just stating what they want and gonna get and I was hella confused. When it occurred to me that everyone was going to order a whole pizza for themselves I couldn’t believe it. I don’t remember what happened next, I only remember the horrible realization that everyone is going to buy a pizza and eat this food, that to me was absolutely meant to be shared, by themselves like psychopaths, a whole family meal, for each person. And that this was the normal way to do it. As I said, I don’t know what happened next, but I don’t really like pizza to this day - maybe something happened that day, I don’t know.
Thank God I found a spouse who likes to share a small pizza and can’t have more than 2-3 slices tops either.
If you compressed a 14” pizza into a ball it would probably be about the size of your head, so you should not eat one.
Any pizza is a personal pizza with enough determination
Amazement and terror increases depending on which hole they use.
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Go on
I used to be able to eat like 1-2 14-inch pizzas.
Now I can barely at half a pizza.
Dominos used to have a large pizza for $5 and a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill was 1.99
I’m feeling very attacked right now.
I do that every time I eat pizza. One extra large… with sides!
Your poor intestines…
They are fine, don’t worry about it.
When I was in junior high, a local pizza/burger/Chinese (if it was food, chances are they made it) place had a Safe Cracker pinball machine that would give you a token every 1 million points which you could redeem for a large, one topping pizza.
I would very often go there with no more than a dollar and end up getting 2 free pizzas and eat them all to myself because I was really good at that pinball machine and also had a bottomless pit in my stomach.
These days, I think less about the pizza and more about how I would love to have a Safe Cracker pinball table.
It would cost a few thousand dollars but if you can find a cheap empty pinball case, it looks like you could build one yourself. Most of the parts seem to be available on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/shop/safe-cracker-pinball?_nkw=safe+cracker+pinball&_sop=16
Is it though?
Unless you’re talking party pizza, it’s pretty much designed to be eaten by a single person.
A large pizza is not meant to be eaten by one person lmfao
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How many inches constitutes a “large” nowadays?
More than 8" and the girls keep smiling.
In the U.S., the convention set by the national chains are small (10"), medium (12"), and large (14"), with some having extra large (16") as an option. Most local places will follow that convention as well.
The amount I consume usually comes down to the crust. If you give me a 16" thin crust pizza it would be gone. But a 14" normal crust, I’d likely eat half of one and try not to eat more.
Key word was try.
Watch “Beard meets Food” on YT and learn.
I usually watch Raina Huang or Katina Eats Kilos. But BMF is really impressive.
Came here to say this, the man is a mutant.
I’d call it cowmaxxing if it actually led to me putting on any weight 🤷♀️
When I was younger, I could eat superhuman amounts of food and not gain an ounce (I was even accused of having anorexia by strangers because I was so thin).
Now, if I even think about one serving of ice cream, I gain ten pounds. Oh shit, I’ve done it. Back to the treadmill, I guess.
Takes a lot of calories to grow a body
Bodies don’t need to be so overgrown
True.
My point was as we are younger our “metabolisms are higher” is really “your body is still growing and utilizing nutrients to build your body” so the caloric requirements are necessarily higher.
It’s why at 18 I could eat all day and not be terribly active and still not get fat. Because my body was still growing bones and muscles and brain and other bits.
Now at 40 my body isn’t growing the same way, my requirements aren’t the same.
My metabolism hasn’t “slowed” per se, just my caloric requirements are markedly different.
I don’t gain weight, but I just can’t do it. When I was in high school my parents would always order me my own large pizza, and I would eat all of it except one slice, which I would eat cold the following morning.
Now, I’ll still have the appetite sometimes, and I’ll order a large. If I’m lucky and very determined, I’ll eat half, and then I’m so stuffed I feel sick. I suppose that’s a good thing, but there is a certain sense of accomplishment found in dusting a whole pizza yourself.
then I’m so stuffed I feel sick
A lesson I learned too late in life, and will often still ignore is:
“Eat to fuel, not to fill.”
Makes food seem pretty boring. I eat to enjoy. I’m not worried about “fuel,” it seems to work pretty well for that without my having to think about it. I’m pretty active, so it’s not much of a concern. But, I understand I’m fortunate that I don’t struggle with food/weight.
I remember a 6th-grade pizza party where I horked down 10 slices. And I was always one of the smallest guys, last picked for teams, all that. I was fucking amazed at myself.
Us skinny people, and the people observing us eat, usually got it all wrong. I thought I could eat superhuman amounts of food and stay skinny. Nah. When people watched me go to town, that was the only food I put in my face that day. Not a single calorie otherwise.
My wife started getting a gut. LOL, she’s barely 3-digits. Mystified! “Uh, babe? You’re snarfing candy all day.”
I got a hella beer belly a few years ago. Guess what? I had been going around the office, filling my thermos with the coffee leftovers, and chunking 1/4 cup of sugar in there. Took a few months to dial that back. :)
All that ramble to say, none of us are very good judges of calories in/calories out.
I always hated sugar, and ate 3 large meals a day. Huge breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snacks. Never gained at all.
That all changed after my pregnancy at 28. Suddenly I seemed to gain weight through osmosis. I mostly lost interest in food, and only started eating sensible quantities twice a day.
Now I can’t lose weight at all, even with nearly a gallon of water per day and one small cup of food every day or two (to be fair, my body now rejects most food because of an autoimmune disorder), but I can actually gain weight on less than 500 calories a day. It doesn’t make sense by conventional logic, yet here I am. I mostly live on Ensure and Pedialyte, yet I weigh more than I ever have. It’s really weird.
I’m sure you’re much less physically active than you used to be as well.
If this is true I think you need to see a doctor
I see several specialists. No solutions so far, unfortunately.
500 calories a day
Are you certain?! That’s concentration camp calories if one isn’t moving, at all. Hell, I’d think your brain alone burns that much. I’m not calling bullshit, I’d really like to understand.
Yeah. I move very little now, except for very low-impact PT, because of dysautonomia and autoimmune issues. Something radically changed with my system several years ago, though, so I can’t really eat, yet I don’t lose weight. My body doesn’t tolerate most food now, other than small amounts of rice and meat. I can’t process fruits or vegetables at all.
It’s steadily got worse over the last decade, and yeah, it is slowly killing me, but my doctors haven’t been able to solve it.
I am calling bullshit. Ain’t no way she’s gaining or even maintaining weight on 500 calories a day. A proper assessment of daily caloric intake is necessary.
is it, though?
a stomach can stretch upto 4 litres in capacity when pushed (one source). that’s 4000cm³ (or 244 cubic inches).
to fill that capacity, the volume of a pizza needs to be 4000cm³ or 244 inch³.
take πr²h = 4000 for thin crust pizzas, if we assume the average height of pizza and toppings as 1cm, our equation simplifies to πr² = 4000; which gives the radius of the pizza as around 36 cms – or a diameter of 72 cms (or 28").
if we take a thicker pizza of an average crust thickness of 1", then our equation for square inches simplifies to πr² = 244. which gives us a radius of about 9" or a diameter of 18".
since most pizzas top out at 12"-14" diameter (thin and thick crust volume varying between 700cm³ to 2600cm³), if anything, we’re nowhere near achieving our full potential!
You forgot that the crust is essentially foam, so it packs even smaller inside the stomach!
I haven’t read it, but I saw that you’ve used numbers and formulas. And that was enough for me to give you an upvote.
