Why Are Thin People Not Fat? (Video)

I hope my body doesn't remember my obese weight and strive for it! It was helpful in understanding why it is a bit difficult for me to lose weight though.

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Wow, very interesting! What I found the most scary was the part about the virus. I had a cold a couple of weeks ago, and while I kept exercising and eating few calories, I gained weight at my last weigh-in and couldn't figure out why. Now I'm worried I have the chicken virus! :-/

This is the most interesting post ever! Thanks for sharing!

I want to be part of a similar study... I wonder if there's one around here...Oooooh an MFP study!

I'm surprised some people can lay in more muscle instead of fat when they overeat... that guy, Martin is really really lucky!
And that other guy couldn't eat his calorie goal because his body increased it's "fullness" so he wouldn't overeat... I actually get that a lot and i'm unable to eat a full plate at a restaurant a lot and end up taking some food home coz i get full easily... so that was pretty cool info. Does anyone also have the same experience???

But I seriously learned a lot from this! Very informative!

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Most insightfulndocumentary I've ever seen. Basically, your body might want you to be fat and fighting it is hard. I found the part at the end the most interesting. Where the guy lost weight by starving and when given the proper amount of calories everyday, his brain still told him he was starving. No doubt in the real world, he would've gained all of it back.

Look forward to watching, many thanks,

I saw this a couple of years ago when it was on TV. I was interested as for most of my life I'd maintained a healthy weight without every having to watch what I ate. I think it helps to show that not all slim people are that way because they're careful about how much they eat. It just happens naturally, for them. What I was hoping was the programme would show how to recreate that state in fat people, but it didn't! Although personally speaking, I found that I could do the same thing when I was bigger - I maintained my weight within a few pounds, without thinking too much about what I was eating. The trouble was that that weight was far too high! But it was interesting that my maintenance of that weight was as easy and "natural" as maintaining my healthy weight had been a few years earlier.

I remember that on the programme they had slim people eat extra calories, which was quite difficult for some of them. What stuck with me was that one of them didn't even gain fat - he gained muscle! It's fascinating how our bodies work differently.

We never did hear much more about the chicken virus theory!

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That was really interesting. The key points for me were:
* the best thing we can do for our children (or nieces/nephews, grand-children, etc) is to help prevent them gaining the extra fat cells in the first place as it starts off life long challenge.
* unfortunately once you have put on weight it will be hard to lose and maintain a smaller size.
* nobody told these people about the calorific wonder of nuts. I am sure they could have met their targets in a more comfortable way with cashews on hand instead of all of the chocolate and dairy (and clotted cream by the spoon!).

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