"Naturally slim" people - curious!

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  • FranceyPants
    FranceyPants Posts: 98 Member
    EDIT** Oops sorry double posted.
  • pgstormblade
    pgstormblade Posts: 1
    Like some of the other folks here, I used to be really skinny. I had to get a waiver to join the Marine Corps because I was too skinny. At 5'9" I weight about 115lbs. I went to boot camp and was "made" to eat double everything for every meal. When I finished boot camp I weighed about 121lbs.

    For many, many years after that I could eat and drink anything and everything and never gain an ounce. Then one day I hit the scales and topped 150. At that time I was about 35 years old. Since that time I have had to struggle to keep weight off. I am not sure what changed, but now I have to lose about 50lbs. Currently I am at about 220 and it is not a good thing.
  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    Like some of the other folks here, I used to be really skinny. I had to get a waiver to join the Marine Corps because I was too skinny. At 5'9" I weight about 115lbs. I went to boot camp and was "made" to eat double everything for every meal. When I finished boot camp I weighed about 121lbs.

    For many, many years after that I could eat and drink anything and everything and never gain an ounce. Then one day I hit the scales and topped 150. At that time I was about 35 years old. Since that time I have had to struggle to keep weight off. I am not sure what changed, but now I have to lose about 50lbs. Currently I am at about 220 and it is not a good thing.
    Did your calorie intake or activity level change that much? I find it odd that you were able to stay skinny for a good while and then the weight came on that dramatically, unless you were eating/drinking that much of an excess before and somehow your body burned it off.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,026 Member
    Most people only eat till their full and believe that they eat all the time. I used to think that way when I was trying to gain weight. Then I acutally counted how many calories I was eating and it was about 1600 calories a day. Lol, no wonder I wasn't gaining weight. So I figured out how to eat 3500 calories a day and voila! I started to gain weight. I ate 6-7 times a day and ALWAYS felt like I was stuffing myself. You pretty much feel full ALL the time. Not just after you eat 3-4 meals a day.......................till I added pizza. Then it was much easier to gain on less meals!!!!!! I went from 126lbs (at 19) to my current weight of 195lbs.

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  • trojan_bb
    trojan_bb Posts: 699 Member
    Fast Metabolism (lose weight at under 4,200 Calories a day) + weak appetite (I'm perfectly content at 3000 Calories on average). Been slowly trying to gain weight for 6 years now (13 years actually, but didn't get serious until I was 19)

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