Do certain foods make one fat?
I think I've read that the Sims 4 food system can affect weight. So does it and how bad? Do we need a dietary chart for the foods? Is there one somewhere? My children have gotten beyond obese and ...
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"PenguinFoop;c-18152141" wrote:
But all of these fatty foods can be overcome easily enough with exercise from what I'm seeing and reading.
It would still be nice to have a dietary chart for the foods, something like:
Turkey Dinner: 16g fat
Tofurkey Dinner: 8g fat
Something like that should suffice.
I tend to give the sims in the household I'm playing a lot of free will. The one I'm controlling not so much, but the other family/household members only get the occasional "nudge" here and there to get the day started right or do a little bit of prep for work promotions. From what I've seen by doing this, is that sims with the active trait can pretty much eat cake morning, noon, and night because the active trait kicks in so much that they constantly exercise. As long as you have a treadmill for them to shed the weight and a weight bench for them to pack on muscle they seem to split somewhat randomly between which piece of equipment they use. In fact, sims with the active trait will exercise so much that even after they are fatigued and/or sore from working out they will hop right back onto one of the exercise machines, so I sometimes lock the door to the exercise room when I see them doing this.
The sims I directly control will most definitely gain weight depending on which food they eat. As I'm controlling them to meet certain goals, exercise often takes a backseat to other activities until I notice them loosing muscle mass or gaining weight. Then usually (if I'm worried about it), they eat garden salads and spend a couple days hitting the exercise machines.
As far as I can tell, The Sims 4 really only looks at calories and nothing else as far as weight gain goes. According to this chart: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/tutorials/calories.php it looks like there are a lot of zero calorie foods. Some of them I find a bit surprising, so I'm not sure if the chart is 100% complete, or if the devs just never got around to adding calories to some of the foods you would generally expect to make a sim gain weight. Now I'm thinking of doing a test on some of these foods I'd expect to pack on weight, by having a sims eat nothing but that and not exercising. I probably wont, but I'm thinking about it :D
