I kinda like this idea. I can now blame my weight on my breathing disorder.
Take THAT, all you skinny people who don’t have my breathing disorder 
As for your balding dumb ass, I’m not sure, but have you looked into Rogaine?
To the point of becoming aroused? Apparently I’ve been doing it wrong. :dubious:
Look, that was my problem with what Freejooky said. There are plenty of obese people who overeat, and plenty who do not. But it’s a vanishingly small number of people in either group that pant with excitement at the thought of a buffet. As in, I suppose they exist. Somewhere. Maybe.
Freejooky, if your father and sister actually had a disordered enough relationship to food to do that, then they were sick, sick people, and that’s a shame and I’m very sorry about that. But that’s in no way a typical reaction of any group of people, thin, normal weight, or obese. Your projection of that to obese people in general is an offensive one.
Sure it wasn’t an NAAFP meeting?
I don’t think it’s any secret that some obese people suffer from food addiction, as opposed to being plain old overeaters. I spent a few years living in a homeless shelter with many other long-term residents, and a number of these men were obese. In some cases the obesity was the result of eating as much as possible when ample food was available as a hedge against those times when food was scarce. One particular man, though, seemed to most of us to have an honest-to-goodness addiction to eating. He was not technically “homeless”, as in “lived on the street”; he came to the shelter under other circumstances, and already obese. Under normal circumstances — walking, sitting, or standing — this man did not noticeably breathe heavily.
Unless it was meal time. At meal time he loaded up his plate and sat down at a table, and that’s when the heavy, audible breathing would start. His eyes would bug out and his face would get flushed as he crammed as much as possible into his mouth at one time. Frankly, he always looked like he was having an orgasm while he ate … complete with loud, heavy breathing.
You misspelled ‘attractive’.
Dopamine regulates the excitability of the respiratory network. Possibly the sight of food in in people prone to become obese excites dopamine production more than in those with more normal eating behaviors, causing more rapid breathing. I would not be surprised by this in the slightest, as dopamine is a critical player in the appetitive system.
The question isn’t as stupid as fellow dopers would have you believe.
Oh, there is no doubt that I am incredibly sexy (my cite is in the doper picture thread in MPSIMS) but I am also not small. I have a few extra pounds on my frame to be sure but that doesn’t mean I’m not super hot!
Not everybody, there’s folks to whom it’s just fuel. They tend to be lousy eaters, as they take no pleasure from the eating act itself. It’s like being frigid in the mouth…
Wow. It seems that we’ve had enough supporting testimony to say this might actually happen (I’ve certainly observed it). Yet, the offensiveness of asking about it keeps it in the hurtful, taboo, deny-deny-deny, how-dare-you category of inquiry.
My weight goes up and down. When it’s up, I wheeze. I don’t know why, but I’m guessing that it’s the dislocation of my internal organs (that’s a polite way of saying my gut is limiting the movement of my diaphram and I have to exert extra effort to evacuate my lungs).
This is pure gold. You’ve always been one of my favorite posters, you know that?
Way to misinterpret what I said. I said that it was possible for some people, no matter what their weight, but not typical. He was implying that it was common among obese people, i.e. that they all have a disordered relationship with food, which is an offensive statement. It’s not taboo to say that there might be people becoming aroused at the thought of eating, though I don’t personally know any. It also isn’t, unfortunately, taboo to say that most fat people become aroused at the thought of eating. I’m sure you can see the difference.
We are, however, entering into Pit territory, so I’m going to stop here.
Way to misread the OP.
My guess would be the exertion from getting up and walking to the buffet.
If I have given myself permission to gorge on a buffet, I do get excited/high, but I don’t think it results in my breathing more heavily.