It's plenty realistic - I have a high metabolism, am 6'0 tall, and still fit/slender. I eat/drink whatever I want, and usually spend the day sleeping/reading/playing Wii. For exercise, I walk my two dogs, and I also used to work outside for 40 hours a week - shoveling mulch, planting, etc.
If I could be your punk rock princess, you could be my garage band king.
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essex9999
13 years ago
Fried chicken and ice cream are not "junk food." They're perfectly normal things to eat in moderation.
Otherwise, I agree that being back in Mercury triggered Mavis' dietary urges, although, again, the food she ate was ordinary, normal, tasty food; she was just eating too much of it.
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selacious9
13 years ago
"Fried chicken and ice cream are not "junk food." They're perfectly normal things to eat in moderation. "
And pizza is a vegetable
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Popmybubble
13 years ago
I think what he/she was trying to imply (If you stopped to actually put some thought into it) eating some "junk" food randomly is not going to make you put on 100lbs in one go get out of that thought process we don't even "fully process" the majority of the food we eat in 24hrs. Putting on significant weight is a long process and so is losing it.
As stated she could of been having these meals sparingly or she was working out off screen 3-4 times a week or just normal activities that kept a decent balance for a nice burn for any binge. Tall people generally burn more due to their bodies needing more they can get away with the odd junk food without having to really do anything but live their natural metabolic burn rate will deal with those calories and if they do some moderate exercise then all the better. Shorter people need less calories but can easily eat in excess of what they need. Unfortunately we are not all equal and never have been what works for one does not always work for the other.
Also this is just a god damn movie.
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essex9999
13 years ago
And pizza is a vegetable
Pizza is also a perfectly normal thing to eat. Millions - maybe billions - eat pizza all over the world. You got somethin' against pizza?
I'm not totally joking. Do people really think fried chicken - a staple of American food for centuries - is "junk food" on a par with Cheez Doodles? That ice cream - a delicious treat eaten by billions of people all over the world, including a lot of very thin people - is junk food like Pixie Stix? If so, then I feel sorry for them. A life lived entirely on steamed vegetables and fruit is barely worth living.
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canadamelody
13 years ago
Most Pizzas eaten in North America are total garbage full of lousy crap.
Now my home-made organic pizzas thats another thing.
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LilPlumley
13 years ago
Nobody said one should only eat vegetables and fruit. It's a fact that many people can't control themselves. They don't eat pizza and ice cream and fried chicken in moderation. That would mean to eat half a pizza and a salad. Or have some fried chicken with a vegetable and some potatoes. But people don't eat like that. That's why so many Americans and Europeans are disgustingly fat.
If you go to KFC or McDonalds and you get one serving of fried chicken crap or a burger with some fries and desert that easily adds up to 1,500 calories. Is it so hard to see why one shouldn't eat like that very often?!
Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
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beatjunkie
12 years ago
Just because billions of people eat it doesn't mean it isn't junk food, it just means it tastes good.
Pizza is full of fat, oil, carbs and salt.
Ice cream is full of sugar and fat.
YES, pizza and ice cream are junk food.
High calories & saturated fats and little nutritional value = junk food.
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canadamelody
13 years ago
You need a food education. American living in a town like the one in the movie?
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