I used to be able to eat a whole large pizza then still be hungry until I started losing weight. I’m now down a shirt size and when getting pizza I have 1 piece left over and am stuffed to dieng
The trick is to put half in one end, and the rest in the other.
Spit roasting pizza
Now you are the calzone.
Panzerotti watches intently.
What are you doing, step-pizza?!
Like this?
Or this?
Ok, so I THOUGHT I clicked on this article, “Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens to beat up Sarah McBride on day before Trans Day of Remembrance” and your comment being on top confused the hell out of me.
So like, pepperoni in one and sausage in the other? I’m game.
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.
it may be that you were being facetious, but numbers and formulae are usually the most potent weapons in the arsenal of people who want to bulldoze in their own agenda.
as a general rule, any post with figures should warrant greater scrutiny, not less; and definitely not none with a nudge to rank it higher. even if it is one in all frivolity as my comment above.
I agree. Usually I am. But when it comes to such a rather humurous discussion as here with pizzas, I make an exception. ;)
What percentage of scrutiny should we follow? [1]
Eigenvector. [2]
[1]: Reinhardt, W. (2012). On the trustworthiness of numbers. Cambridge University Press.
[2]: Paper, M. (2022). Station of play, fifth of its variant. Antarctic Publishing. https://jstor.org/stable/12345-paywalled
I once saw a guy drink 10 litres of water in a contest. He had to puke afterwards, but anyway, a stomach can hold more than 4 litres.
Wikipedia claims that the observed extreme maximum was 15 liters.
I’m feeling very attacked right now.
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 also enjoy food and don’t struggle with weight (well, I struggle with gaining it still at 31). I still have learned I don’t need to over-eat. Anything extra is just going to waste. I eat fairly slowly and enjoy it, instead of eating like I’m in a competition. I eat until I feel done eating and don’t usually go further. You can enjoy eating without over-eating. Honestly, it’s probably easier.
I’m fortunate that I don’t struggle with food/weight.
I miss those days.
I hear you! Still, I do find focusing on a quality meal over a quantity meal is a good thing, which I think in a different way you were also saying. Different qualities, same idea, generally good result. 😊
I live in one of those areas where the 40-60 set seems to be healthier and more focused on health than most people around my age, so I don’t think it needs to be age thing! You’ve got this!
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.
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.
If this is true I think you need to see a doctor
I see several specialists. No solutions so far, unfortunately.
I’m sure you’re much less physically active than you used to be as well.
Every pizza is a personal pizza if you just believe in yourself.
Pass me a giant thing of marijuana with it, and that shit is doomed.
Edit: I was trying to say marinara, not really a pot person, but fuck it… it stands.
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.
I don’t know if what your friends did was normal. Normal for them maybe. Every group of people I’ve shared pizza with its always been a discussion and been shared. Larger pizzas are cheaper by area, so it’s best to get a few of the largest size and split them instead of everyone getting a small to themselves.
As one of those that easily destroy an XL pizza in one go… why is that terrifying?
I Mean, overall I don’t eat all that much… I never eat breakfast and very rarely eat lunch, so one or two meals a day for me (historically a very active person) has to be large to make up for the times I don’t have time (or want) to stop and eat. So it takes at least a large pizza or like two boxes of Mac & cheese to even come close to refilling my fuel tank.
Rationalizing the 'za to perfection…
You just described how it works! People get mixed up on calorie intake. I’m scrawny, but when I eat, I eat. No calories other than beer at night. Not a Coke, not a single pork rind, not even a Jolly Rancher. Nada.
So people see that and think, “Gosh! Wish I had a metabolism like his!” Nah. I just don’t eat in between meals.
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So, using a 16” pizza as a “xl” size.
PapaJohns XL cheese: 3000 calories Dominos XL cheese: 2980 calories
I powerlift 3-4 days a week and run 30-60k a week depending on how many days I lifted.
If I ate JUST one of those a day as a 6’ tall man I’d still gain weight and want to die.
When I was 20 I could easily pound down a full Papa John’s pizza and stay skinny as a rail. Nowadays I eat one cookie after dinner and my body permanently incorporates it into my mass, never to be released again.
Age and biology are big factors here. For me to gain, at the pace you go weekly, I’d have to make myself sick eating enough to keep up.
3000 calories a day is a lot my dude, that’s a lot of food being talked about.
I dont know yhe other commentor, but i am pretty much permanantly poor because i have to eat about 2800 just to maintain my weight. I literally cannot afford to feed myself the massive amount of food it requires for my body to simply maintain.
Im 30, 145 lbs, 6’3", and it only takes my body about 45 minutes for food to go in one end and out the other, whereas its supposed to be closer to 8 hours
and run 30-60k a week
You mean calories? I’m a little lost.
Km
Km makes sense. And few people run 30-60Km a week, so that threw me. I’ve known exactly one person to run that per week, and she was an outlier.
So, let me do the math, this guy is running 18-38 miles a week? OK. LOL, I walk that. :)
Are you Americaning?
Frozen?
Any pizza is a personal pizza with enough determination
My hunger response is all messed up; exceedingly slow to satiation, hungry almost immediately after. I’m basically always hungry even sometimes getting hunger pangs that are physically painful and come with nausea; not eating for even around like 12-16 hours would sometimes cause me to gag and to feel like I needed to throw up. Changing some dietary things has helped, but I’m still almost always hungry and never stay full long.
Even as little as a year ago, I could put away a large pizza, some ice cream, a meal from McD’s, and more in one day and still be hungry. I probably still could if not for ending up needing to cut gluten (one of the things that seems to have helped). By BMI I’m right on the border between overweight and obese and dropping (I will probably be just ‘overweight’ in mid-Feb 2025 or so).
It’s agonizing being hungry constantly. I know I don’t need to eat. But my body is screaming at me it wants to eat and it’s infuriating.
Food is the only physical addiction that you can’t quit for life or it will kill you. You don’t need beer or cocaine or meth to live, you can live a full happy life without any of those. You can’t live without food.
If I could quit it cold turkey I would.
But I can’t, and it sucks
We are also fighting decades of food science working non stop to make the cheapest shittiest food possible.
Says food is not satiating, always hungry -> proceeds to say they could keep eating unhealthy processed foods designed to make you crave more…
You clearly missed the point above where I wrote “ending up needing to cut gluten” which kinda precludes eating most of the things on that list.
These days, except for once a week, I am eating: oatmeal, brown rice (regionally-sourced), some meat (chicken, fish, or pork in order of frequency) I’ve cooked, some veg (much of which I grow myself) I’ve cooked, and some sauce I’ve (at least mostly – I’m not brewing my own soy sauce) made, and often a bit of cheese. Dessert, when I have it, is a handful of chocolate chips. I am still almost always hungry. Once a week, I eat sushi or something similar and have an ice cream.
Edit: I also feel compelled to note I would only let myself eat like that (the Pizza, burgers, etc.) once every week or two, lest someone think that was my daily life.
Dominos used to have a large pizza for $5 and a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill was 1.99
Watch “Beard meets Food” on YT and learn.
Came here to say this, the man is a mutant.
I usually watch Raina Huang or Katina Eats Kilos. But BMF is really impressive.
When I was 8 years old, my sister ordered an XL pizza from papa johns. And I said “Ok…but what are YOU having?” She laughed it off as me saying I’d eat the whole thing myself. I saw no joke. So I made her order a second pizza for herself. She got a small. And when I was done with my pizza, I ate half of her pizza. She then accused me of playing some prank on her. She searched her apartment up and down claiming I was hiding the pizza somewhere. I was like “YOU WATCHED ME EAT MOST OF IT!!!”
My stomach did not have an “off” button. At least not until decades later when they removed 2/3rds of my colon. Now I can eat something small to medium sized and feel like I’m full.
But back then? I honestly think if you’d have put 10 XL pizzas in front of me, I’d have eaten them all if I liked the toppings. Then asked for snacks later.
I think the true horror isn’t that you at an entire XL pizza, but that you ate an entire XL Papa Johns pizza. No one should do that to themselves.
Well, this was back in the 90s. Back when they were still good.
I’ve been on Adderall since I was 9 and my relationship with food is basically waking up hungry, taking some pills, and then being hungry but having absolutely no impetus to act on it… And 12 hours after waking up everything wears off and it’s suddenly ‘food horny’ for lack of better word. Profoundly, ravenously hungry.
I’ve basically been training my whole life to saunter into a pizza place and order a 16" pizza and eat the whole thing in 15 minutes.
Professional competitive eaters are nuts tho, this pizza place near me has a challenge to eat a 16" specialty pizza, I did it for shits and giggles after work one day in like 20 minutes, but on their wall of finishers, a professional eater stopped in and ate the whole damn thing in 2 minutes and 49 seconds, that’s terrifying
Imagine a dude that has never been on ADHD meds suddenly being given some.
I lost 10kgs already. Still looking to lose 10 more. Like you said - eat pills, stop being hungry / stop the feeling of wanting to eat. Then eat one meal, and be alright till very late in the night.
I eat like shit - burgers, pizza, potato chips, gummies. I am able to limit calories and not feel like shit for most of my day. It’s amazing.
Damn that post pizza clarity must be crazy
Professional eaters? People get paid to eat stuff fast?
