i don't know about cheaper, but it's way easier. our portions are so large, everyone comments on it. it's easy to eat a lot here, so all you have to do is be very physically active and you can bulk up easily. only other factor is yourself. how much are you willing to eat. the us is the land of extremes. while europeans love to shit on fat americans, most europeans have a base level of physical fitness because they walk a lot. it might have changed somewhat, but europe doesn't have as deep of a fitness culture as the us. the us is very car centric, so people also overcompensate. the default fitness in much of western europe seems to be more leisurely. it's a byproduct of the lifestyle, whereas in the us people into fitness will workout very intensely.  if 10% of americans go to the gym regularly, that's over 30 million people. so while you guys love to point at fat americans, you forget that there's a subset of the population that works out a lot. deadlifting, doing intense cardio, tons of bodyweight exercises. so the average european doesn't realize they'll get mogged hard by an american who actually works out.  i cut back on running, in favor of the gym, but i would run 10 miles (16 km) every other day for the past year. it's hilarious to me that a european would just arrogantly assume because so many americans are fat, that they would outpace me. you guys are extremely arrogant and your opinion of us in general is so low that you always assume the worst.
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