Do you eat with fat people or skinny people?
October 27th, 2009 by Cliff Bostock in Food & LifeIt matters, according to new research:
Whether your companions are overweight or skinny and how much they put on their plates can greatly influence how much you eat. New research shows if we eat with skinny people, we tend to mimic their food portions, regardless of how much they take. However, if we eat with overweight companions, we generally try to adjust our portions to be different.
October 27th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Interesting. When I eat with fat people, I tend to eat more, because I feel like I can without looking like a pig…When I eat with skinny people, I eat less, so I DON’T look like a pig.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I dated a quite fat guy in college and lost a LOT of weight in the process. Watching him eat just made me think of getting fatter myself. It was a great diet. I am with a thin guy now and it’s all about portion control, although it does piss off waiters when we order one appetizer and one entree. They need to re-size the (giant) portions in restaurants or quit getting pissed off.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Martha: I feel sorry for the guy that you’re with now.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Along similar (though more technical) lines, there was another interesting article in the New England Journal of Medicine a couple years ago about how being close with someone who becomes obese makes you more likely to become obese yourself.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Kingfish: Haha! ’splain yourself. Not sure how I offended you.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I really don’t care what other people are eating unless it looks good and I want to try a bite.
Yeah, I’m a little overweight. I encourage people to eat as much as they like when I entertain. Maybe I fit this report’s claim.