Every vegetarian I’ve met was on the skinny side. I’ve never met a fat one.
Just curious.
I know a few. They all have a startling affinity for cheese. Vegans, on the other hand, are pretty much uniformly rail-thin.
Well, I’ve met a lot of people who don’t eat meat that are pretty chubby.
Actual vegetarians - that is, those that follow a specific diet all tend to be pretty smallish.
And every vegan I’ve every met has been very trim. (And pale, for some reason).
I knew one fat vegetarian. Fat annoying egotistical highly-strung self-important vegetarian, to be specific. But she certainly was fat.
I know a few as well–but maybe they were just big-boned
Well, anecdotally, yes, I’ve met a couple obese ones.
M&Ms, chocolate cake and cheese pizza are vegetarian too, y’know.
As a side note, I know a lifetime vegetarian who needed a triple bypass in his early 50s. He wasn’t obese, but he wasn’t thin either.
I know a pair of fat vegetarians. (A couple.) Lots of cheese and carbs. Lasagna every other day. 
I also know a strict vegan woman with a lovely fat bum.
It seems that vegetarians should be a little stouter since they have to consume more volume in order to get adequate nutrition (especially protein). I suspect that a lot of today’s vegetarians make up for the lack with store-bought vitamin-type stuff, so that may account for some of the thinness. Then again, there are probably some naive vegetarians who are actually undernourished.
Actually that’s a good point, if a person’s appetite is only going to satisfied with X number of calories per day the expectation would be that a lacto-vegetarian might well be fatter for a given daily calorie load than an omnivore who has access to lean, high quality protein.
All desserts are vegetarian. :eek:
Most of the vegetarians I know are either willowy or just normal slim build, and this is hardly surprising because meat is where the lard lives. But I do know one portly vegan; I wouldn’t call her ‘fat’, but she’s probably a little above the top recommended weight for her height. Nuts; that’s what made that happen, lots and lots of nuts.
Not in my home town. (seriously)
Not all. Plenty of people still use lard in baking, for example. I understand that it makes incredible crusts.
If I met a fat vegetarian I’d wonder if he or she drinks. A six-pack of beer and a bag of chips is a vegetarian “meal”, and alcoholic beverages are notoriously fattening.
Plant-derived foods (other than nuts and seeds, and a few odd items like olives and avocadoes) are lower in fat and so less calorically dense than meat and dairy products. A very physically filling vegetarian meal can contain a lot fewer calories than a fairly skimpy meat-and-cheese-based one. This makes it harder to be a fat vegetarian than it is to be a fat omnivore–but it’s not impossible.
In some parts of the world, rice is a major staple, people eat tons of it, and many are quite heavy. It’s not from the rare protein they consume, I’m sure.
Rice has protein.
The OP’s never been to India, I gather.
Sumo wrestlers eat primarily chankonabe which doesn’t seem to contain any meat. Not necessarily the picture of leanness. They also skip breakfast (slows metabolism), excercise while hungry (slows metabolism even more), nap after eating (so as to conserve fats & calories), eat late at night (same), and often eat with other (to encourage eating more). They’re definately doing something right. If by right, I mean getting real portly.
It turns out I’m a moron. There’s meat in the sumo stew. But that other stuff’s still interesting, in case anyone’s planning on aggressively gaining weight.
Not the ones that contain gelatin.
And I know at least two fat vegetarians.