20 Habits skinny people live by

No, it definitely doesn't, it just makes it hard for us to read along with the comments.

Anyway, I think there was some good information in there, Just take everything with a grain of salt.

And the OP wasn't written by the poster, it was an article she copied. Good luck on your weight loss journey, I hope you find some great infomation!

http://body-improvements.com/resources/eat/

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/you-are-not-different.html

i probably shouldn't say this, as i am posting on the polemic world of MFP forums (shiver!) but, so far as the mantra "you are not different" i do disagree somewhat. Which always always causes an entire hailstorm of outrage if someone doesn't buy that idea 100%.

When i was younger, for decades and decades, if i wanted to, (and sometimes i did) i COULD pretty much eat whatever i wanted.
I was always slim/muscular. Some years i ate healthy, just to be healthy, some years, i ate junk. (long story). Either way, i was buff. Some years i was into exercise, some years, i didn't. Either way, i was buff and strong. Kind of naturally.

Some of my pals had to severely restrict their calorie intake much much lower than mine to stay anywhere near their ideal body weights, even though some of them participated in far more exercise than i did.
our metabolims WERE different. They used to watch me eat sometimes huge quantities of food in awe, as i sat there in a size 4/6 outfit, not a care in the world.

we were NOT the same.


another example, you say you can play with the dog, not focus much on your meal, and not overeat. Not everyone is capable of that yet. Maybe some can, but some might overeat, by not paying att'n to how much they ARE eating.

People's att'n spans vary from one person to another. Some ppl have a twitter level of att'n span, and can't read a long post, or find it 'difficult' to read threads with too many posts,
while some people enjoy reading entire books.:drinker:


certainly we humans have much in common, but, like any other mammal, there can be differences in what one needs to eat. At a zoo where some pals of mine work, there are two tigers, both get about the same amount of exercise, but one of the tigers has to be fed much less to avoid obesity, the other one eats a lot more.
My pal has two dogs, one eats TWICE what the other one eats, yet both dogs are fit and get about same amt of exercise.

but yeah, sure, no one is 'unique'...sure. (ducks, as i know, on MFP, that idea, 'we are all just the same' is wildly popular accepted meme, but, i've SEEN the differences that two very similar mammals CAN have one, in what they need to stay fit).

I'm fairly skinny and I don't do half the things on this list.

A lot of it is bull****. Especially the first one.

Thank for sharing but take everything you read with a grain of salt.

Some of the responses just baffle me. Nobody has suggested that eating breakfast or refraining from late night dinner make you skinny by itself. That would be crazy. This is just a list of the habits that slender people tend to have. I think it is worth paying close attention instead of poo-pooing it. After all, losing weight for a year or two and maintaining healthy weight throughout your lifespan are two different things. The latter being a much healthier option.

I actually do all of those (with an exception of eating boring foods, but I get what they are saying) and I have always been slender (never skinny) with a BMI between 19.8 and 22.1.

Some people on this forum sound unnecessarily agitated. Too hungry perhaps?

I just realized that keeping a food journal is nowhere on that list. It should be number 1! It is a fact that people who keep accurate food journals lose weight and keep it off.