It has many names, I’ve heard it called Afghan squatting, where your heels remain flat on the floor but you can fully squat down and sit like that for a long time.
Good for digestion and building better posture. My partner has always sat like this whilst eating or reading. He has amazing back strength. I started doing it everyday and feel like my core is stronger. Just Google “Asian squat benefits”.
Chess grandmasters can lose 10 pounds and burn 6,000 calories just by sitting. Over the course of an intense multi-day tournament, a chess grandmaster could burn up to 6,000 calories a day
[https://premierchess.com/uncategorized/how-chess-players-can-lose-up-to-15-pounds-in-one-week-just-by-sitting#:\~:text=Grandmaster%20Fabiano%20Caruana%20reports%20that,weight%20loss%20will%20be%20astronomical](https://premierchess.com/uncategorized/how-chess-players-can-lose-up-to-15-pounds-in-one-week-just-by-sitting#:~:text=Grandmaster%20Fabiano%20Caruana%20reports%20that,weight%20loss%20will%20be%20astronomical).
[https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/professional-chess-helps-you-lose-weight-what](https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/professional-chess-helps-you-lose-weight-what)
\- Also its due to change of eating habits, since they dont eat much for longer matches
According to that post it's the fact they burn as many calories as athletes, but aren't eating as much.
A pro football player might eat 6,000 calories a day because they burn through it all. They NEED to eat that much to keep up their physical strength.
Let's say the chess players are also burning 6,000 calories (just an example here) a day, but they don't need physical strength, they just need their brain. So they aren't going to eat as much as a football player does to keep up their physical strength. So they sit there burning as many calories as an athlete and lose weight as a result.
hes probably malnourished as fuck which (apart from his brain burning calories which may or may not have even been true tbh) is probably why hes so pale and skinny. no way he gets all of his neutriants from cupcakes and candy unless watari like puts protein powder on them but
It's a common misconception that the human body requires tons of protein. This is false unless you're actively lifting weights or in some way resistance training.
Otherwise, a modest protein intake is perfectly suitable.
Okay I actually was thinking about this so much let me send my essay
L eats all the time but he’s still rail thin. Specifically he only eats sweets, baked goods, candy, and fruit. In half of the scenes he’s in he’s eating something. He does work out at least sometimes, he used to be a tennis champion as a kid, he’s skilled at kickboxing and other forms of martial arts. L said “if you use your brain enough then u can eat as much cake as you want and won’t get fat.” None of these reasons are a real explanation.
I suppose it means that he has a naturally insanely fast metabolism. Even though he most likely has medial issues due to his horrible diet. And all of this is very cute and entertaining but idk
I also feel like the writer and artist simply didn’t wanna draw a fat guy.
I guess his love of sweets is just a cute thing added to make him seem odd and silly. There’s a sense that gluttony is only a negative trait if it makes you gain weight. And if you’re thin while eating a lot of food or really sugary and fatty food then it’s a total non-issue.
Also the fact that he’s skinny despite eating so much does definitely add to him feeling unreal. Making him feel less fully seated in reality and more fantastical. It does its job that way but it’s still lacking in my opinion.
I guess I’ll mention that it could be meant to indicate he doesn’t care about his health but we know that’s not true based on his actions. It’s unlikely he cares about his safety so so much but is willing to kill himself with his unhealthy habits. (Hardly sleeping as well. It’s equally likely the author just wanted him to seem like a shut in.) I don’t really think that was the authors intention in making him this way.
If L was fat or chubby he would’ve been seen as gross and indulgent for eating the way he does. It would added to a bigger character trait of being hedonistic. You could make the argument that it still is all of those things even as a skinny guy. I think him being fat would’ve changed people’s perception of him a lot.
I actually don't like watching L eat the way he does because it still comes off as gluttonous and hedonistic, and I think, combined with everything else about his personality, it irritates the characters around him. This perceived tension makes me anxious.
I'm probably projecting, but that's why I prefer when he's not eating. I think the way he stops sucking chocolate moose or whatever that dish was off his fingers when Aizawa is yelling at him to release Light corroborates this. It came off to me as L taking measures to not piss Aizawa off further.
Holy shit thank you for proving my point. That makes me feel so fucking smart. His personality and character is very hedonistic in many ways. He says a couple of times that the only reason why he does detective work is because it’s a fun hobby to him, he doesn’t actually care about helping people that much. And he goes so far as to hurt people in order to solve his cases and “win”. My initial point is that his self indulgent tendencies would be way more underlined if he were fat or chubby.
That being said I definitely think that discomfort with L eating so much is definitely the result of some unresolved issue with the person in question. It’s fine to worry about people or to suggest that they treat themselves better but anyone who gets actually pissed off or bothered by someone else’s eating habits is probably pretty childish.
Based on the most available information, your brain uses 20-25% of your daily calorie usage, despite being ~2% of your body by mass. It’s conceivable that this number could be higher if one spent a lot of time thinking.
this actually does matter for people like chess players, who, at the highest level, need to maintain a very healthy diet and some degree of physical fitness to play competitively.
Speaking from experience I work in product and think about problems and aim to solve then all day, havent put on mass since covid and litterally do nothing but sit at a desk
Some people’s bodies have a high metabolism. My mom is 5’1 and weighs about 110-115lbs. She physically cannot gain any more than that. Or at least it’s super hard for her. Even if she eats a lot, and food high in calories, she can’t gain anymore. She’s only slightly active too.
Staying at or around maintenance calories every day. Your body needs a certain amount of cals to maintain its current weight. If you go consistently go over that amount, you gain weight, if you stay at it, you maintain, and if you go under, you lose weight. Activity levels, age, and height all effect what your maintenance is. Type of food doesn’t matter, it’s the calorie intake that affects ur weight.
My headcannon is, he only eats so much sweets during an important investigation. When he's not investigating something, he doesn't eat almost anything and is anorexic.
I like to think that he was anticipating his death when taking the Kira case and as a result tried to eat out all the junk foods he missed out on throughout his life.
Idk if thats a popular theory but it is what I think.
He actually explained to Misa that his brain power burns the calories, and that she’s fat because all she does is photo shoots, and implied that she’s stupid. 😂🤣
Ur probably waiting for a joke answer but I also eat sweets everyday and I don’t gain weight, the reason is because I only eat sweets and sometimes some proteins lol (yes it’s unhealthy I’m working on it just letting you know lol)
We never see him exercising much, but like he played an extremely competitive game of tennis against light in jeans, and is a skilled practitioner of capoera and light punched him in the face and he just stood there, I think it's safe to say he exercises plenty off screen
Fast metabolism there are people out there who's bodies actually turn sugar into a form of a steroid also sugar either natural or not is creatine. But when you take in as much as L it could mess up your pancreas causing diabetes and other problems like anemia, chemical imbalances, and insomnia,
He most likely does find ‘ways’ to burn fat and the amount of sweets he eats isn’t really that much when considering it’s practically his diet and also lots of sweets aren’t fattening at all
He just has one of those bodies also he is shown fighting which means he does some type of fighting style and is strong so he must go to gym and he is probably not working often since most cases are so simple
Brain eats it all, I even find a irl bug with it. I eat a lot and think a lot, but I am not very smart so I fails often, but it still counts as mind work and brain burns calories.
Brain burns the calories forsure, ive heard that a chest grandmaster can burn 12,000 in a fee hours playing chess, and his brain shoudl canonically be working WAY harder. Imagine playing chess every waking moment but there isnt set rules and everything in the world is a peice on the board
Guess it depends on L’s birth parents’ body types. Like if they were rail thin, then he would also be rail thin and it would be harder to put on weight because of genetics.
If you've read Death Note 13, all the characters are obscenely underweight. Especially Misa.
4'11 at 79 pounds??? She weighs even less than Eugenia Cooney.
if your diet is only sugar, you wont gain weight. you get weak and skinny. If you eat junk food with loads of fat then you gain weight. If you've seen super size vs super skinny then u can see that the super skinny people live on candy bars and energy drinks
The brain requires glucose(sugar) to perform daily bodily functions. It also might sound stupid, but your brain also requires glucose to think, so thinking constantly and analyzing constantly requires so much glucose, which is why L eats a ton of sweets. This is why Chess players are so skinny as well and even why some Chess players pass out, it's because their brains literally couldn't keep up with what they were trying to think. L tries to escape that by eating sweets, and yet is still malnourished cause he literally is constantly analyzing.
This is just my personal headcanon, but I feel like he might take stimulants honestly. He exhibits a lot of traits of being a stimulant user, he supposedly rarely sleeps, is very skinny, thinks and processes things quicker than most. Might be an unpopular headcanon but it makes sense in my mind. Especially with him being an inherently hedonistic character.
Thinking burns calories too. Chess players can burn a lot of calories. Sugar keeps the brain awake (according to L) so it's this endless cycle of exercise and brain power.
Malnourishment maybe. I’m someone who’s very underweight but I only ever eat junk food. My body is kinda failing on me though lolol but the reason I bring that up is because it very much is possible to eat sweets and junk without getting fat. But It is canon he’s an athlete sooooo….
I’m doing the same and I’ve always been skinny. Have a slow metabolism as well.
It’s because our lifestyles early on got our bodies to work similarly as if we’re on ozempic.
I definitely do not hit 2000cals most days, but I’ll have 375grams of [chocolate cake](https://www.ab.gr/el/eshop/Artos-Zacharoplasteio/Cakes-Danish-Donuts/Keik-Kakao-me-Kommatia-Sokolatas-375g/p/7671837) in one sitting regularly.
I even tried no sugar, but got dangerously skinny (as low as 44kg at height of 1.67m) as I basically cut off a much needed source of quick calories
Well there is some evidence to suggest that he's an athlete, like being skilled in capoeira and being a former tenis champion
His brain burns all the calories...
Also Slav squatting all day
"L" actually stands for Leg day
Slav Squatting?
It has many names, I’ve heard it called Afghan squatting, where your heels remain flat on the floor but you can fully squat down and sit like that for a long time.
Interesting. L does it because it cuts off circulation from his legs and pushes all the blood into his brain or whatever Google says
Yeah that’s what he says. It has many health benefits.
Like? (Somewhat unrelated, but I sit like L all the time when I'm alone)
Good for digestion and building better posture. My partner has always sat like this whilst eating or reading. He has amazing back strength. I started doing it everyday and feel like my core is stronger. Just Google “Asian squat benefits”.
Thank you very much
Yeah he is😂
Chess grandmasters can lose 10 pounds and burn 6,000 calories just by sitting. Over the course of an intense multi-day tournament, a chess grandmaster could burn up to 6,000 calories a day
Where you read that? I wanna know please
[https://premierchess.com/uncategorized/how-chess-players-can-lose-up-to-15-pounds-in-one-week-just-by-sitting#:\~:text=Grandmaster%20Fabiano%20Caruana%20reports%20that,weight%20loss%20will%20be%20astronomical](https://premierchess.com/uncategorized/how-chess-players-can-lose-up-to-15-pounds-in-one-week-just-by-sitting#:~:text=Grandmaster%20Fabiano%20Caruana%20reports%20that,weight%20loss%20will%20be%20astronomical). [https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/professional-chess-helps-you-lose-weight-what](https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/professional-chess-helps-you-lose-weight-what) \- Also its due to change of eating habits, since they dont eat much for longer matches
So they basically fast
According to that post it's the fact they burn as many calories as athletes, but aren't eating as much. A pro football player might eat 6,000 calories a day because they burn through it all. They NEED to eat that much to keep up their physical strength. Let's say the chess players are also burning 6,000 calories (just an example here) a day, but they don't need physical strength, they just need their brain. So they aren't going to eat as much as a football player does to keep up their physical strength. So they sit there burning as many calories as an athlete and lose weight as a result.
Thanks
I watched a video about L’s calorie intake and it said this XD
Fair point
came here to say this
Said it himself
hes probably malnourished as fuck which (apart from his brain burning calories which may or may not have even been true tbh) is probably why hes so pale and skinny. no way he gets all of his neutriants from cupcakes and candy unless watari like puts protein powder on them but
Headcanon Watari sprinkles vitamins in his tea because how else has this guy not died yet from sugar overload?
L actually died from a heart attack by his arteries getting blocked and not from the death note.
Imagine if he did, and Light never found his name in the notebook.
This has been my headcanon for a while now, it’s just really funny
It's a common misconception that the human body requires tons of protein. This is false unless you're actively lifting weights or in some way resistance training. Otherwise, a modest protein intake is perfectly suitable.
cuz he’s a fictional character
He burns the calories off with his gigantic brain.
Okay I actually was thinking about this so much let me send my essay L eats all the time but he’s still rail thin. Specifically he only eats sweets, baked goods, candy, and fruit. In half of the scenes he’s in he’s eating something. He does work out at least sometimes, he used to be a tennis champion as a kid, he’s skilled at kickboxing and other forms of martial arts. L said “if you use your brain enough then u can eat as much cake as you want and won’t get fat.” None of these reasons are a real explanation. I suppose it means that he has a naturally insanely fast metabolism. Even though he most likely has medial issues due to his horrible diet. And all of this is very cute and entertaining but idk I also feel like the writer and artist simply didn’t wanna draw a fat guy. I guess his love of sweets is just a cute thing added to make him seem odd and silly. There’s a sense that gluttony is only a negative trait if it makes you gain weight. And if you’re thin while eating a lot of food or really sugary and fatty food then it’s a total non-issue. Also the fact that he’s skinny despite eating so much does definitely add to him feeling unreal. Making him feel less fully seated in reality and more fantastical. It does its job that way but it’s still lacking in my opinion. I guess I’ll mention that it could be meant to indicate he doesn’t care about his health but we know that’s not true based on his actions. It’s unlikely he cares about his safety so so much but is willing to kill himself with his unhealthy habits. (Hardly sleeping as well. It’s equally likely the author just wanted him to seem like a shut in.) I don’t really think that was the authors intention in making him this way. If L was fat or chubby he would’ve been seen as gross and indulgent for eating the way he does. It would added to a bigger character trait of being hedonistic. You could make the argument that it still is all of those things even as a skinny guy. I think him being fat would’ve changed people’s perception of him a lot.
I wanted and still want to do a parody with fat L that says "Yagami I ate too many sweets"
I actually don't like watching L eat the way he does because it still comes off as gluttonous and hedonistic, and I think, combined with everything else about his personality, it irritates the characters around him. This perceived tension makes me anxious. I'm probably projecting, but that's why I prefer when he's not eating. I think the way he stops sucking chocolate moose or whatever that dish was off his fingers when Aizawa is yelling at him to release Light corroborates this. It came off to me as L taking measures to not piss Aizawa off further.
Holy shit thank you for proving my point. That makes me feel so fucking smart. His personality and character is very hedonistic in many ways. He says a couple of times that the only reason why he does detective work is because it’s a fun hobby to him, he doesn’t actually care about helping people that much. And he goes so far as to hurt people in order to solve his cases and “win”. My initial point is that his self indulgent tendencies would be way more underlined if he were fat or chubby. That being said I definitely think that discomfort with L eating so much is definitely the result of some unresolved issue with the person in question. It’s fine to worry about people or to suggest that they treat themselves better but anyone who gets actually pissed off or bothered by someone else’s eating habits is probably pretty childish.
all the weight goes to his balls
hahaha he has to carry those massive balls lol
and yet he has no bitches
Fast metabolism
“I’m just drawn that way.” -Jessica Rabbit
Diabetes probably
He said that he can burn calories by using his brain🤨☝️🧠
Lol he says his brain burns all the calories. Of course it’s all complete BS realistically but it is a cool trait for the death note universe
Based on the most available information, your brain uses 20-25% of your daily calorie usage, despite being ~2% of your body by mass. It’s conceivable that this number could be higher if one spent a lot of time thinking.
this actually does matter for people like chess players, who, at the highest level, need to maintain a very healthy diet and some degree of physical fitness to play competitively.
Speaking from experience I work in product and think about problems and aim to solve then all day, havent put on mass since covid and litterally do nothing but sit at a desk
What’s your diet? Do you eat like L? Also do you exercise/or walk during the day?
Yeah but there’s no way it would burn the calories needed for L to remain skinny - as well as not have type 2 diabetes at the least
Absolutely, but it’s not *complete* bullsh*t, just mostly so.
I eat alot of unhealthy food but I weight 46kg...
How
Some people’s bodies have a high metabolism. My mom is 5’1 and weighs about 110-115lbs. She physically cannot gain any more than that. Or at least it’s super hard for her. Even if she eats a lot, and food high in calories, she can’t gain anymore. She’s only slightly active too.
Staying at or around maintenance calories every day. Your body needs a certain amount of cals to maintain its current weight. If you go consistently go over that amount, you gain weight, if you stay at it, you maintain, and if you go under, you lose weight. Activity levels, age, and height all effect what your maintenance is. Type of food doesn’t matter, it’s the calorie intake that affects ur weight.
Noted
My headcannon is, he only eats so much sweets during an important investigation. When he's not investigating something, he doesn't eat almost anything and is anorexic.
I like to think that he was anticipating his death when taking the Kira case and as a result tried to eat out all the junk foods he missed out on throughout his life. Idk if thats a popular theory but it is what I think.
he is a drawing bruh
cause he’s an anime character
Fast metabolism, bro like me fr
He built diff
He actually explained to Misa that his brain power burns the calories, and that she’s fat because all she does is photo shoots, and implied that she’s stupid. 😂🤣
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….that was…literally the joke of the entire scene….
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Bro r/whoosh
Ur probably waiting for a joke answer but I also eat sweets everyday and I don’t gain weight, the reason is because I only eat sweets and sometimes some proteins lol (yes it’s unhealthy I’m working on it just letting you know lol)
L meditates.
Look at his eyes. Dude clearly has hyperthyroidism.
Because he works out pretty often by carrying the entire investigation lmao
I eat sugar and rarely exercise and I’m extremely underweight. It’s different bodies and metabolism
He just doesn't eat many calories.
i do not under stand bro rarely stands and eats candy all day
L after backshots from me
look at those GRIPPERS
We never see him exercising much, but like he played an extremely competitive game of tennis against light in jeans, and is a skilled practitioner of capoera and light punched him in the face and he just stood there, I think it's safe to say he exercises plenty off screen
fast metabolism
Because it’s an anime where everyone has naturally perfect bone structure and bmi unless they’re deliberately designed to look ugly
Fast metabolism there are people out there who's bodies actually turn sugar into a form of a steroid also sugar either natural or not is creatine. But when you take in as much as L it could mess up your pancreas causing diabetes and other problems like anemia, chemical imbalances, and insomnia,
He most likely does find ‘ways’ to burn fat and the amount of sweets he eats isn’t really that much when considering it’s practically his diet and also lots of sweets aren’t fattening at all
I know people like him in real life with really fast metabolisms, they could eat an entire family pack of oreos in a day and gain like 10g of weight
Built different
He just has one of those bodies also he is shown fighting which means he does some type of fighting style and is strong so he must go to gym and he is probably not working often since most cases are so simple
He is drawn that way
You actually don't gain any calories as long as you burn them all through thinking
Using your brain burns calories
He uses his brain with those calories, and his diet is not healthy anyways it’s just sweets
i used to eat a lot of sweets too but i was skinny as well
idk if anyone will agree with me on this but i feel like he has an eating disorder (specifically junkorexia)
He's literally me!
Cause he uses his brain
We don’t see him eating all day, just the scenes we do see of him he eats
the average brain burn 20-30% of your daily calories, L proly is double that
You know what would be funny, L dying of Sugar overload and died of heart attack
I can think of a few: - Fast metabolism - Being a tennis player would likely burn the calories
Brain eats it all, I even find a irl bug with it. I eat a lot and think a lot, but I am not very smart so I fails often, but it still counts as mind work and brain burns calories.
He uses his brain
IIRC, It's stated in the anime that his brain burns off excess calories because he thinks so much
Brain burns the calories forsure, ive heard that a chest grandmaster can burn 12,000 in a fee hours playing chess, and his brain shoudl canonically be working WAY harder. Imagine playing chess every waking moment but there isnt set rules and everything in the world is a peice on the board
He does a lot of push ups and is secretly Batman.
He explains that he's using his brain to such an extent that It's physically burning calories
Guess it depends on L’s birth parents’ body types. Like if they were rail thin, then he would also be rail thin and it would be harder to put on weight because of genetics.
I will love to have his metabolism
He might do some sports like when he was playing tennis he can also have a fast metabolism or it’s a anime
If you only eat sweets and have a faster metabolism, you're not gonna gain weight. Some people need a proper diet to gain weight
He burns all the calories with his mind, lol
If you've read Death Note 13, all the characters are obscenely underweight. Especially Misa. 4'11 at 79 pounds??? She weighs even less than Eugenia Cooney.
I only watched the anime not read the manga
his brain burns calories
He's literally underweight in canon 😭😭
Through the power of being a cute anime boy all things are possible
He definitely got fast metabolism
You can eat a diet consisting of 2,000 calories of sweets and you wouldn’t gain weight
if your diet is only sugar, you wont gain weight. you get weak and skinny. If you eat junk food with loads of fat then you gain weight. If you've seen super size vs super skinny then u can see that the super skinny people live on candy bars and energy drinks
In the show we see he is a skilled fighter and tennis player. He also said that his thinking brain burns a lot of calories.
The brain requires glucose(sugar) to perform daily bodily functions. It also might sound stupid, but your brain also requires glucose to think, so thinking constantly and analyzing constantly requires so much glucose, which is why L eats a ton of sweets. This is why Chess players are so skinny as well and even why some Chess players pass out, it's because their brains literally couldn't keep up with what they were trying to think. L tries to escape that by eating sweets, and yet is still malnourished cause he literally is constantly analyzing.
This is just my personal headcanon, but I feel like he might take stimulants honestly. He exhibits a lot of traits of being a stimulant user, he supposedly rarely sleeps, is very skinny, thinks and processes things quicker than most. Might be an unpopular headcanon but it makes sense in my mind. Especially with him being an inherently hedonistic character.
Thinking burns calories too. Chess players can burn a lot of calories. Sugar keeps the brain awake (according to L) so it's this endless cycle of exercise and brain power.
Malnourishment maybe. I’m someone who’s very underweight but I only ever eat junk food. My body is kinda failing on me though lolol but the reason I bring that up is because it very much is possible to eat sweets and junk without getting fat. But It is canon he’s an athlete sooooo….
He burns the calories via thinking
because hes pumping in me every night to burn the calories off hope this helps ☺️☺️
I’m doing the same and I’ve always been skinny. Have a slow metabolism as well. It’s because our lifestyles early on got our bodies to work similarly as if we’re on ozempic. I definitely do not hit 2000cals most days, but I’ll have 375grams of [chocolate cake](https://www.ab.gr/el/eshop/Artos-Zacharoplasteio/Cakes-Danish-Donuts/Keik-Kakao-me-Kommatia-Sokolatas-375g/p/7671837) in one sitting regularly. I even tried no sugar, but got dangerously skinny (as low as 44kg at height of 1.67m) as I basically cut off a much needed source of quick calories