Naturally slim

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  • tgzerozone
    tgzerozone Posts: 160
    Can anyone answer this question?
    Why is it that some people can eat whatever they want and never put on weight, whilst others even look at a chocolate bar and put on weight?
    Is it all down to genetics? Metabolism?

    Pretty much every study ever done with naturally thin people found they simply didn't eat as many calories as other people who had issues with their weight. There are exceptions - but that's the truth. Skinny people eat less food.

    What he said.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member

    And just because you're overweight, doesn't make you UNhealthy. I used to be an example of this.

    I was well over 100 pounds overweight, had perfect blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, etc.



    Yes, even when I was pushing 200 pounds I had great cholesterol, great blood pressure, and I've been told my body seems to make extra of the good cholesterol that helps fight the bad type.

    Go figure.
  • lilojoke
    lilojoke Posts: 427 Member
    http://www.burnthefat.com/slow-metabolism-problems.html

    I found this very interesting...

    A classic!!!
  • anitasongs
    anitasongs Posts: 129 Member
    or burn more calories. bottom line over eating calories without exercise means weight gain....Right?
    YOu lost alot of weight.. is that true?
  • coconutbuNZ
    coconutbuNZ Posts: 578 Member
    This is basically it. Naturally slim people naturally don't overeat. They also don't mind being active. And when they're hungry, they eat, but they know when to stop. It is true that they may eat junk food but they don't do it all day, every day.

    Genetics and low metab doesn't help but it is not the main cause for being overweight. It is the food that we consume, how much we consume and lack of exercise.
  • yesthistime
    yesthistime Posts: 2,051 Member
    Bump for tomorrow
  • elcieloesazul
    elcieloesazul Posts: 448 Member
    Can anyone answer this question?
    Why is it that some people can eat whatever they want and never put on weight, whilst others even look at a chocolate bar and put on weight?
    Is it all down to genetics? Metabolism?

    my anecdotal evidence :

    after having observed several people who i thought could "eat anything they want" and still not gain, i have observed that they seem to fall into two categories.

    1. the thin people who i observed eating McDonalds / high fat food all of the time generally ate the burger and fries and then stopped when they were full. also, they often had jobs that involved physical labor. they were lifting something a good deal of the day.
    This. My sister and I grew up doing the same sports, eating the same foods. The difference? How MUCH we ate. She could eat chips and stop after a handful, physically full. I could never stop until I was mentally full.
    EDIT: And, I think the proof lies in which one of use ended up on MFP. :tongue:
  • iuew
    iuew Posts: 624 Member
    Yes, they exist ... I am married to one. My husband is 63-years-old and he still wears the same size pants as he wore in 7th grade (30X32). He eats a minimum of 4,000 plus calories per day. His diet is probably 85% protein (meat), but he can eat anything and not gain an ounce. He has been the same weight and height since 7th grade. He is super active and always has been. None of our friends or our children can keep up with him when he hikes. He is super healthy. He has perfect blood pressure, very low total cholesterol, low blood sugars, etc. He takes no medication and never has. He has been ill once in the 23 years we have been married. What caused his illness? Lifting a 400-pound beam on top of his head and walking it up a ladder when building our 2-story garage. His disc in his lumbar spine did not like that. :wink:

    Yes, he exists.

    P.S. I obviously don't know how to do the "quote" thing.

    i would have to add that a "super active" person might be able to eat 4,000 calories per day and not gain weight.

    i don't dispute that some metabolisms are more active than others. from an evolutionary standpoint, however, a metabolism that would allow a moderately active to sedentary person to eat everything in sight without any weight gain makes about as much sense as a car that gets 4 gallons per mile would make if gasoline were $20 per gallon. ubiquitously available food for most socioeconomic classes in first world nations is a condition that has existed for about a millisecond on the clock of mammalian evolution.

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