Why is it that.....

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Holly1975

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I've pretty much lived at the baseball field after 4pm for the past 3 weeks with my oldest son playing baseball. There is a concession stand that sells corndogs, hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, cheese fries, etc. I've done really well with not getting this stuff, I mostly just get a diet coke. There is another mother their who is doing weight watchers and has lost 50lbs. 3 years ago and is struggling to maintain, so we chat often about weight and food. I've been noticing that the thin people at the ballfield (mothers, not players) are the ones eating all the junk out of the concessions. This also goes with my question about some grossly skinny people I know very well who eat tons of junk food almost everyday but yet struggle to maintain 105 lbs. (struggle keeping weight on! ) Is it their metabolism?? If so, then how does calculating our rmr and bmr even close to accurate if some can consume 3000 calories a day and maintain extremely thin bodies and others are consuming 1600 and can barely lose a pound every week or so.

I hope I'm making sense here but it's late and I probably rambled so much in this post and will notice it when I awake tomorrow morning :eek:
 
I've always wonder this too. I have an extremly skinny friend who told me her favorite meal is (here it is, not joking!): mayo on pizza.

Everytime I see her she's eating. Its unbelievable. And too my knowledge, she doesn't really particpate in an extremly active life style or work out on a regular basis.

I really think its unbelievable and ridicalous. She can eat a whole pizza and lose weight. I can eat half a slice, and peal off the cheese and gain 5 lbs.

The laws of metabolism...really confusing. I cannot picture the energy gains and expenditures. Where does all that extra calorie go? Perhaps a thyroid deficiency problem, or something along those lines.

But in closing, I totally relate. I see skinny people pigging out and not gaining a lb. And remember; just because you are thin doesn't mean you are in good health.
 
Just because you're skinny doesn't mean that you're healthy. A skinny person could stroke out just the same as a fatso. Eat healthy, get in some activity and you're good to go... even if you're not as skinny as the human garbage disposal.
 
I think thats where I gained all my weight watching baseball games and stuffing down pepsi fries and dogs :). This year I will make sure I eat before I go and if anything treat mysef to a diet pepsi ( it's sad that it excites me haha)
 
I used to be one of those skinny people who could eat anything.

It catches up with you eventually. Trust me.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and whimper - where did my twenty two year old body go???

;)

Honestly, when I was skinny (110 lbs at 5'6) I had a two year old kid, I started smoking again, and I skipped breakfast. Then I was that girl you see at night in the restaurant wolfing down the supersized meal. I was probably getting under 1600 cals a day, just all in one sitting.

Skinny people eat differently. They metabolise differently. Then they get older, and those skinny rules no longer apply.
 
it really does start to catch up so be grateful that youve got into good habits now. ive got mates who were knobbledy knees and sharp elbows up until now (17 years) and used to cram their faces with maccy ds and kfc and coke and chocolate bars but all of a sudden theyre starting to develop double chins or massive asses or pot bellys. think of what must be going on inside of their bodies :eek:
 
Thanks for the info, but unfortunately, one of my friends I'm referring to is 36, so not exactly too young, and my mother in law who is 57. Mother in law still has a cheerleaders figure and can eat a whole mufallatta for lunch by herself, large pizzas, etc. It must not catch up with everyone.
 
In most cases, metabolism slows down with age. In the rare and lucky case, it does not.

Consider other factors as well, though. Do you know what she eats for breakfast? For dinner? What she snacks on? Does she exercize? Does she smoke? Does she drink? Does she skip meals?

Some of it is environmental, some is genetic. Was her mother skinny? Are her kids skinny? My Dad is skinny but my mom is tall and big boned. Some of us ended up on the thin side, others on the heavy side.
 
I think it's part of the cosmic irony that explains why all the hot guys are gay and why all the good ones are taken ;)

I just try to remember that even if someone is staying slim while eating tons of junk, it doesn't mean that the person is healthy. You can have clogged arteries, heart disease or diabetes as a skinny person just as easily as a heavy person if your diet is terrible.
 
The skinny people you see at the snack bar are probably moving more and using more calories throughout the day.

I think the people underestimate the calories they are taking in and overestimate the calories they are burning off.
 
My mom is one of those people who eats total garbage all the time and she drinks almost nonstop and yet she's skin and bones. She doesn't exercise other than doing household chores. But still, she's skinny... definitely not healthy by any means (she's 50 now, and I'd be shocked if the woman lives past 60), but she's skinny... I wish I could have inherited her metabolism.
 
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