Metabolism

beautifulsparkles

Does your metabolism make any difference as to how many calories you can consume and how fast you lose weight?

ultrahoon

Yes.

But don't worry about it. 99% of human beings fall into the (very narrow) normal range. And even aging 10 years only makes a 50-100 calorie per day difference.

yarwell

beautifulsparkles wrote: »

Does your metabolism make any difference as to how many calories you can consume and how fast you lose weight?

for sure, which is part of why some people lose at 2500 calories and others at 1500 calories. Fairly unlikely your resting metabolic rate is below 1200 calories a day so with 30 mins to an hour of walking and routine living activity you should be able to lose at 1200 calorie intake.

senecarr

Your amount of activity (exercise and Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenisis), how well you monitor your food and the limiting there of, will dominate any innate metabolic differences in all but tiny fraction of the human population.

http://examine.com/faq/does-metabolism-vary-between-two-people/

One study[1] noted that one standard deviation of variance for resting metabolic rate (how many calories are burnt by living) was 5-8%; meaning 1 standard deviation of the population (68%) was within 6-8% of the average metabolic rate. Extending this, 2 standard deviations of the population (96%) was within 10-16% of the population average.[1]

Extending this into practical terms and assuming an average expenditure of 2000kcal a day, 68% of the population falls into the range of 1840-2160kcal daily while 96% of the population is in the range of 1680-2320kcal daily. Comparing somebody at or below the 5th percentile with somebody at or above the 95th percentile would yield a difference of possibly 600kcal daily, and the chance of this occurring (comparing the self to a friend) is 0.50%, assuming two completely random persons.

To give a sense of calories, 200kcal (the difference in metabolic rate in approximately half the population) is approximately equivalent to 2 tablespoons of peanut butter, a single poptart (a package of two is 400kcal) or half of a large slice of pizza. An oreo is about 70kcal, and a chocolate bar in the range of 150-270kcal depending on brand.

Metabolic rate does vary, and technically there could be large variance. However, statistically speaking it is unlikely the variance would apply to you. The majority of the population exists in a range of 200-300kcal from each other and do not possess hugely different metabolic rates.

Sued0nim

All true

Also your perception of metabolism as something that is the cause of your weight issues can have an enormous effect on your ability to be successful

Many make it an extrinsic factor that allows them to give up or feel others have it easier ...it's something one can blame

Only scientifically it really isn't

Most of them are absolutely wrong

Sued0nim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTr1JUvEiUU

LivingtheLeanDream

Metabolism is something all us (once) overweight people used as an excuse - if we move more we can increase how our body burns the calories we take in. We also are inclined to eat more than we think, hence all the threads on here where the replies/comments are 'get a food scale' 'log your food as accurately as possible' etc come from.

kristen6350

Your metabolism isn't broken. You eat too much food and don't do enough exercise.

Eat less, move more.

beautifulsparkles

kristen6350 wrote: »

Your metabolism isn't broken. You eat too much food and don't do enough exercise.

Eat less, move more.

I didn't say my metabolism was broken. Did you even read the OP? I was just curious what people thought.