Naturally thin people...what do you eat in a day?

I'm offended by the "there may not be many of you on here" comment that I can't clarify my thoughts enough to say anything more

But they don't exist. Truth is they may appear to eat more than you, they either don't or they are far more active. You can achieve the same, medical conditions aside, if you practice the same habits.

not true. I have a lazy skinny sister who eats all of the time. she eats more calories than me most days and im more active than her and im the one on a weight loss site. her metabolism is crazy high and sorry to say they do exist

My father is 'naturally thin'. His ribs have always been visible and as a young man it bothered and he spent years trying to gain weight. And he eats a lot! He snacks and has full meals. And drinks lots of beer. While the food tends to be healthy (read unprocessed) it is often high cal for the main but he also loves veggies and eats a huge amount of salad a day and has both chips with homemade salsa and dark chocolate everyday.

I always thought he was naturally thin and part of my problem was in learning portions from him and my mom but the difference is his activity level. He doesn't sit down. Or stop. Ever. He hikes, climbs, bikes, gardens, plays ping pong, cleans, whatever, he just moves aside from watching the occasional movie or reading for 30 minutes in bed in the evening. He once said to me that he'd noticed that I never move, that when he thinks of me its on the couch as thats where I am when we talk, I read, we watch shows, I eat, ect.

In short he can eat whatever as he moves lots and I need to eat less and move more until I find my balance.

I am one of three brothers. The oldest and I were always chubby. The middle brother was always "unnaturally thin" while eating anything and everything. Then in his late 20's he discovered he had graves disease and a host of other problems with his thyroid. Now we know why he could do what he did. After getting his body in check now he is like a normal person.

Don't just assume people who are thin yet eat anything they want are truly healthy inside.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAQr77QMJiw

There is one freak of nature in this documentary who ate and ate and ate and didn't get fat. There is one woman who simply could not eat the required amounts of food no matter how hard she tried. That is two of ten who didn't get fat in a month of deliberate gorging.

I would like an answer on this. Am currently watching "why are thin people not fat" on youtube. Very interesting stuff and seems to partly go against what people are saying. This one asian dude ate a ridiculous amount of food and gained muscle instead of fat. This other person ate twice the calories they should've and didn't gain any weight. I know people like to come on strong with their usual copy and pasted "well hur hur, unless they can defy laws of thermodynamics, they aren't eating as much as they think they are!" but i predict most on here aren't scientists that study this issue extensively. Just people that count calorie with an app on their phone and pretend they know everything. I think largely the "a calorie is a calorie" is sound logic for 99% of people out there, but that there are freaks of nature who have bodies that do something else.

Every time someone appeals to somatotypes and bone structure, a thin person gets fat.

FYI: the terms ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph are crazy BS made up by a 1940s psychologist who spent all his time looking at pictures of naked people. They don't actually correspond to anything in reality. Endomorphs magically become ectomorphs when they get their diet and exercise in check.

Whatever you think about somatotypes, my torso type point is correct. And you don't become an ectomorph, you show me a former endomorph with a 17" waist, it doesn't happen because people classified as that have short torsos. They get as skinny as they can FOR THEIR SIZE, and that is what you have to deal with. You have the frame and the bone structure you were born with, the END.

A woman I've known for decades (at one time a co-worker) has always been tall and very thin. When I was spending time around her I could observe what she ate and it was very little. For example when going out to an Italian restaurant we had the pizza or whatever and she had the soup.

Ok. I was one of those scrawny chicks right up until my late 30's. It seemed to my friends that I could eat anything and not gain weight. They would whinge and moan on about it. I would agree that I could eat anything BUT...

...from the age of 18 I moved out of home, I went to uni full time, I worked 2 jobs and had a very active social life. I managed to average around 5 hours sleep a night if that. I don't think I saw television for 6 years. I lived in a 3 level apartment and my room was on the third level so unless I was asleep, stairs were my life. My car was really unreliable (thank goodness we lived on a hill!) so I walked into the city (20 mins) or combo of walk and bus for work and home again. When we went out I danced and danced for hours and hours. I loved healthy foods and junk foods the same. No difference.

Yes I was always ravenous but I never ever stopped moving. I barely slept. My mind boggles when I look back.

I stayed thin thru having 3 children and it has only been since my late thirties (about 4 years after my last child was born) that I slowly started gaining some weight. The reason was pure and simple. I was still eating the same amount of food I have always eaten - because that's what I have always eaten - and still moving but I definitely wasn't as frantic paced as I was when I was younger.

I came on here to re-educate myself on what my portion sizes should be for a woman (yes I can eat as much or more than my husband, always have.) For this reason, when I see people using the fake cardboard noodles/pasta with 3% nothing and 1% taste so they can eat MORE of it I think that they just haven't gotten the point. It isn't necessarily finding the diet miracle foods that are so low in calories that you can eat half a table of them. You haven't learnt anything about portion control. So when you go to a restaurant and eat a similiar amount of the really good noodles/pasta, people cry and rage on about having a binge and falling off the wagon etc etc. They haven't learnt how much food they should be eating because they are trying to find ways to cheat and still stuff in as much food as they can.

So, after my epic war and peace post, thin people enjoy their food, but to them, it's just fuel. Eat as much as you need not as much as you want.

Well my husband is naturally thin
When I married with him I gained a lot of weight due to the fact he never stops eating and he eats a lot, his metabolism is insane I gained 80 lbs and he maintained his weight. So now I am want to lose a lot of weight and it takes a lot of self control to cook for him and not eat what he does (pasta, chips, burgers and all the snacks plus all the soda drinks) all my weakness are there in my fridge

i eat whatever i want within 1500 calories (i want to lose 3 pounds). I will switch to 2000 when i hit my goal. I can maintain at 2000
I never watch my protein intake and i have ice cream or chocolate bars every day. It doesn't matter WHAT you eat, it's how much of it you're eating.

Another side of being active. It's not just that I have a higher neat (and burn calories that way), but also that I am busy and don't view food as a form of recreation.

I have never been overweight. I've always been at the lowest end of the bmi (18 to 19). During my first pregnancy I gained in actual body weight around 15 pounds and for my second maybe 10 pounds at most. I was always nutrition oriented. I didn't think about calories. Just nutrition, portion control, and sweets only occasionally (also I drank no alcohol for a decade). I don't think there is one factor that leads to slimness. There are a lot of factors. And just being ok with a lifestyle that promotes fitness. Now I count calories and also eat differently. So, there is more than one way. It's just about how you choose to do it, and always keeping it as a priority. I have never gone on a low calorie diet (except once when i was 16 with disasterous consequences and that was why I learned to never diet again or think about calories until i joined mfp in my mid thirties). I have also never been an over eater.