Do certain foods make one fat?

PenguinFoop · July 2022

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 now suffer from morbid obesity. So I switched their diet to salads and force them to play for hours on the monkey bars, swing set and pirate ship to try to tone them up.

That seems to be helping but their weight is still a bit alarming.

AlanSims · July 2022

I think everything that is like cake, fast food (pizza), quick meal (Cereal, cookies, juice), pasta make Sims fat if they don't do any activities and sleep a lot. Most of the Sims I play are usually pretty active and one thing I noticed is that if they use the weight lifting equipment they bulk up in muscle mass, if they use the treadmill every day they get defined (shredded) or skinny. I'm curious to see a dietary chart too because some of them do affect size, like that high protein meal.

OEII1001 · July 2022

A lot of the high level homestyle and gourmet dishes are calorie-heavy, so to speak. This can be somewhat counterintuitive from a gameplay perspective, as we tend to view higher level abilities or items as being superior to lower level ones. However, the devs were pretty slick in noting that your sims are going to gain weight if you feed them roast chicken or rack of lamb every night. A lot of the recipes from Country Living and the barbecue recipes from Island Living will pack the pounds on your sim.

And, as mentioned by Alan, pizza is probably the biggest culprit for weight gain in the game. If you are looking keep your sims fit, avoid that San Myshuno slice.

PenguinFoop · July 2022

Yeah, I figured about the cakes and such. I also don't even make baked goods. Because those foods make me feel fatter just from reading the titles. But I was making mostly fish, chicken and stuff like that. You know, foods that make my mouth water.

Also, yeah I figured out how the weight machine and treadmill work. I think though that the treadmill trims you down, the punching bag gives definition and the weight machine gives muscle mass.

Unfortunately none of machines matter for the children.

crebo19 · July 2022

I noticed back during the "everyone is making white cakes' glitch the people in my household were heavier and received a negative moodlet for eating so much cake. Lol

PenguinFoop · July 2022

Lol When that was a thing, I threw the cakes away immediately, if you're talking the ones the roommates were making. I never EVER "let them eat cake." 😤 If there was another one, fortunately I missed it.

crocobaura · July 2022

Diet ice cream is your friend. Stick a bucket in the fridge and let them eat it whenever they like it. That is basically the only desert my sims order in restaurants if they have already eaten.

PenguinFoop · July 2022

Sorry, I won't let them eat anything with the word "die" in it, just like I won't let them eat things like pufferfish. No thank you, I don't want them to puff up any more than they are!

crocobaura · July 2022

PenguinFoop wrote: »

Sorry, I won't let them eat anything with the word "die" in it, just like I won't let them eat things like pufferfish. No thank you, I don't want them to puff up any more than they are!

Diet ice cream makes them thin actually. It takes three successive servings to go from morbidly obese to slender. You can watch what they eat and exercise, but ice cream works so much better, it's like no fat, no sugar, no dairy kind of dessert.

PenguinFoop · July 2022

No fat, no sugar, no dairy, just air? Lol

Seriously though, I've never seen diet ice cream, probably because my eyes have an aversion to the word. *shrugs*

crocobaura · July 2022

PenguinFoop wrote: »

No fat, no sugar, no dairy, just air? Lol

Seriously though, I've never seen diet ice cream, probably because my eyes have an aversion to the word. *shrugs*

The flavour it's actually called Taste of Diet, it comes with the ice cream maker from Cool Kitchen pack.

PenguinFoop · July 2022

That explains it. I have the pack but have never actually used the items from it. Maybe I should...

Daephene · July 2022

Yeah the ice cream is good, and I believe there are potions for making sims thin or fat in the rewards store also.

mightysprite · July 2022

I think there is a Carl's guide on this. You can google it. In general salads, fish and harvestables are healthiest. And it's really hard to avoid putting on weight if you don't exercise regularly.

PenguinFoop · July 2022

Daephene wrote: »

Yeah the ice cream is good, and I believe there are potions for making sims thin or fat in the rewards store also.

Yeah, the potions are there but that's not for me. I'd rather make them play on the playground in a thunderstorm.

mightysprite wrote: »

I think there is a Carl's guide on this. You can google it. In general salads, fish and harvestables are healthiest. And it's really hard to avoid putting on weight if you don't exercise regularly.

Yeah, I'm seeing that. Their days are becoming less fun and more work by the minute. But at least they will look good doing it.

About Carl's guide, I didn't think about that! That site was my goto during Sims 3.

DaniRose2143 · July 2022

I don't police my sims diets but I do track their exercise habits. They have complete freedom to eat whatever they like and they do mix it up. They are good about having healthy meals almost as often as indulgent meals. I have them conditioned to want to do something active everyday. Jogging, swimming, and yoga are their favorites and they are all still as slim as they were when the save started.

Mariefoxprice83 · July 2022

I noticed a massive trend towards weight gain after I bought Cottage Living.

PenguinFoop · July 2022

DaniRose2143 wrote: »

I don't police my sims diets but I do track their exercise habits. They have complete freedom to eat whatever they like and they do mix it up. They are good about having healthy meals almost as often as indulgent meals. I have them conditioned to want to do something active everyday. Jogging, swimming, and yoga are their favorites and they are all still as slim as they were when the save started.

So you don't do family meals? I mean, if you're gonna have one parent cook for the entire family, then you have to choose what they make.

That is unless you just order the butler to do it. When I do that, it's definitely salad night. That's all he makes.

MoonlightGraham · July 2022

DaniRose2143 wrote: »

I don't police my sims diets but I do track their exercise habits. They have complete freedom to eat whatever they like and they do mix it up. They are good about having healthy meals almost as often as indulgent meals. I have them conditioned to want to do something active everyday. Jogging, swimming, and yoga are their favorites and they are all still as slim as they were when the save started.

I have the flipside of this situation in my save. I have a Sim who is inspired by a good friend of mine. We'll call him Sam. Sam is a large, active, athletic man. Creating him as a Sim, without the Active trait, would be untrue to him. Left to his own devices, Sam the Sim lives at the gym. His favorite activity, by far, is the treadmill. I have to make sure Sam includes junk food in his diet, or he becomes noticeably smaller.

PenguinFoop · July 2022

Gideon woke up thin!!! Gideon, the eldest of the two children, went to sleep last night still fat but woke up half the boy he used to be! I think the forced activity and neglect of homework and skill building has paid off!!!

MoonlightGraham · July 2022

Here's a related question: Does running on the treadmill at a gym cause Sims to trim down faster than jogging around the neighborhood, or do the activities have the same effect on a Sim's physique?

Simmingal · July 2022

I think everything spellcasters can magic up makes your sim fat because thats been issue with my Goths lately

thankfully i found out kicking soccer ball helps for kids and i can exercise the older sims

PenguinFoop · July 2022

Soccer ball??? I never thought of that!!!

@MoonlightGraham that's a great question!

DaniRose2143 · July 2022

PenguinFoop wrote: »

So you don't do family meals? I mean, if you're gonna have one parent cook for the entire family, then you have to choose what they make.

That is unless you just order the butler to do it. When I do that, it's definitely salad night. That's all he makes.

My main save there are no families. There are three main households, two couples, and one single sim. Every household has somebody who is at least a level 7 cook, and two are sims in the culinary career. They handle all of their own meal prep. I let them choose what they want to eat. Both of the chefs are actually max skinny and thinner than when I started because they are so active they work the calories off.

DaniRose2143 · July 2022

MoonlightGraham wrote: »

I have the flipside of this situation in my save. I have a Sim who is inspired by a good friend of mine. We'll call him Sam. Sam is a large, active, athletic man. Creating him as a Sim, without the Active trait, would be untrue to him. Left to his own devices, Sam the Sim lives at the gym. His favorite activity, by far, is the treadmill. I have to make sure Sam includes junk food in his diet, or he becomes noticeably smaller.

Summer loves to go jogging, she does that autonomously. Danielle loves to go swimming and do yoga, Londyn loves swimming too and jogging. Matteo is another swimmer. If you want to find him and he isn't at home, head for the bay in Tartosa you'll find him there. I don't know what Liberty does to stay so skinny but I guess I'm going to find out soon enough.

MaggieMarley · July 2022

I never breastfeed my sims kids as that makes them gain weight, and I only feed the toddlers/children garden salad and they maintain their weight on that. Once they are teens I freeze their physique with MCCC which stops them from gaining/losing any weight/muscle and from then on they can eat whatever they want.

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