Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s

Very interesting, thanks for sharing....

I would argue that it may be possible too that the accuracy of people’s food intake in the 80’s could be skewed. The information in regards to diet has to be provided by individuals in a time where counting calories I would argue was not a thing.... Where as today tracking calories or understanding calories is possibly much more understood. With that said it could be that we just in this day in age are exposed to higher caloric food then our parents were.... my humble opinion only....
 
Funnyman said:
Diet pop, or all the sugar fee stuff does help.

Plus the burgers at fast food restaurants have more meat patties and sauces & bigger buns.

Maybe the remote control has helped a bit.;)
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Did you say bigger buns? I love me bigger buns, I’m an ass man, sorry I couldn’t help myself.
 
Funnyman said:
Diet pop, or all the sugar fee stuff does help.

Plus the burgers at fast food restaurants have more meat patties and sauces & bigger buns.

Maybe the remote control has helped a bit.;)
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if you look at drink sizes that explains a lot. 160ounze drinks are insane. got a buddy drinks 2 litres of pepsi a day and wonders why he has a very large gut even though he walks to the store and back every day to buy his pepsi lol
 
Go back to the 80’s it was a rare treat to eat out whether it be fast food or a sit down restaurant. Now we have a society so fucking lazy it won’t leave their house to get their double Big Mac! Society eats out all the time and I think that plays a huge factor. A home made burger is way better for you than mcdicks. More real meals back then.
 
Frank.castle said:
Go back to the 80’s it was a rare treat to eat out whether it be fast food or a sit down restaurant. Now we have a society so fucking lazy it won’t leave their house to get their double Big Mac! Society eats out all the time and I think that plays a huge factor. A home made burger is way better for you than mcdicks. More real meals back then.
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darn shame people buy so much prepared food most have no clue how to cook. A cooked roast full or preservatives to keep it on the shelf for weeks just seems a tad less appealing to me then a nice fresh roast cooked at home and bought from someone like @Sorbate who actually cares that your getting the best meat.
 
Taureau said:
darn shame people buy so much prepared food most have no clue how to cook. A cooked roast full or preservatives to keep it on the shelf for weeks just seems a tad less appealing to me then a nice fresh roast cooked at home and bought from someone like @Sorbate who actually cares that your getting the best meat.
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Some of the garbage I see people eat grossed me out! Imagine a cold shitty Big Mac that’s gotta be good for you.. I eat out rarely and almost never get fast food. If I get fast food it’s from a Greek place for chicken souvlaki. Real chicken breast real potatoes and white rice. I know the owners and they take pride in using quality ingredients, and even still that’s once every other month.

@Sorbate always having his meat complimented! Lucky guy
 
Maybe cortisol from stress. My dad and all of his friends pretty much got jobs that paid in what would be the equivalent of the mid 30’s an hour right out of high school. Even with college it took me about ten years to get a decent paying career. I remember how stressful it was working a job that required post secondary, but only paid 2$ over minimum wage, while paying off a student loan. My sister in law worked at A&W for five years with a university degree.

Trades and the military are the only good bet now days unless you have the bennifits of nepotism.
 
Frank.castle said:
Some of the garbage I see people eat grossed me out! Imagine a cold shitty Big Mac that’s gotta be good for you.. I eat out rarely and almost never get fast food. If I get fast food it’s from a Greek place for chicken souvlaki. Real chicken breast real potatoes and white rice. I know the owners and they take pride in using quality ingredients, and even still that’s once every other month.

@Sorbate always having his meat complimented! Lucky guy
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he runs a very good shop and you can tell he really cares :)
 
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Durk said:
Maybe cortisol from stress. My dad and all of his friends pretty much got jobs that paid in what would be the equivalent of the mid 30’s an hour right out of high school. Even with college it took me about ten years to get a decent paying career. I remember how stressful it was working a job that required post secondary, but only paid 2$ over minimum wage, while paying off a student loan. My sister in law worked at A&W for five years with a university degree.

Trades and the military are the only good bet now days unless you have the bennifits of nepotism.
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But what kind of jobs were they going into back then... skilled trades welders, mechanics, carpenters schools then got you ready for jobs that exist and weren’t fancy 6 figure riding a desk jobs. Schools were realistic places where they trained future workers... not just future “thinkers”
Don’t get me wrong I went to school did my engineering degree worked 2 jobs during school and 3 when not in school it sucked. I finished realized the pay sucked and went to a skilled trade. Haven’t looked back since. But I’ll stop here cuz this is a debate for another thread lol
 
Frank.castle said:
But what kind of jobs were they going into back then... skilled trades welders, mechanics, carpenters schools then got you ready for jobs that exist and weren’t fancy 6 figure riding a desk jobs. Schools were realistic places where they trained future workers... not just future “thinkers”
Don’t get me wrong I went to school did my engineering degree worked 2 jobs during school and 3 when not in school it sucked. I finished realized the pay sucked and went to a skilled trade. Haven’t looked back since. But I’ll stop here cuz this is a debate for another thread lol
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My dad got hired at GM the day he graduated high school. My uncle got a job with the city roads and parks dept. with nothing but a grade 10 education.
 
Durk said:
My dad got hired at GM the day he graduated high school. My uncle got a job with the city roads and parks dept. with nothing but a grade 10 education.
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I know Toyota is hiring I know family that started with the city as a summer job in grade 10 turned it into a career. So there is jobs out there
 
Frank.castle said:
I know Toyota is hiring I know family that started with the city as a summer job in grade 10 turned it into a career. So there is jobs out there
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Not near the degree there was back then. Before China raped us with free trade you could walk in to any factory in my towns industrial park and get a job for around 25 an hour. Now almost all of those places are vacant and the ones that are still running use temp agency’s and pay min wage while only keeping a few guys on at full time wages.
 
Durk said:
My dad got hired at GM the day he graduated high school. My uncle got a job with the city roads and parks dept. with nothing but a grade 10 education.
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Yep and those days are over.
There was a few decades where the economy was flying high, wages were good and the cost of living low. But before those times and after, it’s back to normal.
My fathers meat plant grew immensely during the late 60’s to the 80’s. I remember as a child he made $60,000 a year and a normal house cost $50. I remember in 1985 he bought a brand new Ford Crown Vic fir $28,000 fully loaded. He was making I believe close to $80,000 a year then.
To match this I would need to make $300,000 now.
I also asked him how they grew so fast. He told me that they product the right product at the right time. First big time oil rigs were up in the early 70’s in Alberta. Each camp the cook purchased the food, my grandfather would do whatever it took to get the business. They grew from $300,000 in sales in 1969 to $100,000,000 in 1995.
There was a lot of success stories like that. Guys dropping out of high school starting s trucking business, multimillion dollar business owners by the 90’s

But it was a fluke, and we need to realize that. The economy is now in China and those places.
But our quality of life is still really good even though we may have to work hard.

As for why we are fat now.
Physical activity has sharply declined. I watch people drive around GoodLife looking for the closest parking spot and wonder why they are fat.
People buy food based on price. The cheaper it is the more crap that is in it. I blows my mind how many guys buy the cheap ass soy pumped chicken breasts. Especially bodybuilders. You know soy, the estrogen converter. I guess they like working harder to remove the fat. Also the protein content is 30-50% less, and it tastes like mushy shit. Same goes for the ground beef.
Too much time worrying about how our life is horrible compared to the generation before, lol. Truthfully too much time thinking and getting stressed.
And honestly, we have all become pretty lazy.

There is a ton of things, but I touched on a couple.
 
Durk said:
Not near the degree there was back then. Before China raped us with free trade you could walk in to any factory in my towns industrial park and get a job for around 25 an hour. Now almost all of those places are vacant and the ones that are still running use temp agency’s and pay min wage while only keeping a few guys on at full time wages.
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Everyone wanting to make a huge wage rapped us.
Everyone cannot make a large wage and then be able to afford to sell products to those same people.
China is kicking our ass because of what the average worker is being paid.
Also, there was a lot of people in the 70-80’s that were lower paid as well, just a lot of the good union jobs were way over paid in comparison, and good for anyone who was smart enough to get one.
 
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