Why are thin people not fat? on BBC2 now

[isitme]

my brother works with this guy who is completely off his tits, and he just sits in his chair figeting all day and is built even tho hedoesn't ever do anything just from all his nervous energy

 

[N_igma]

I'm one of these people who eat like fuck and don't gain weight. I am also known to fidget sometimes.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

genes apparently, the complete lack of desire to eat once full, with no difficulty, and the fidgeting - and then there was freak boy who turned fat into muscle - what a lucky bastard! He put on weight, but there was hardly any increase in body fat!!! there was some other stuff too, but I think that sums it up. basically your body wants to be a certain size and has x amount of fat cells blah blah blah and then I got distracted and stopped listening and started fidgeting

I do that, you think it's hard to lose fat? Well it's a sodding nightmare to lose muscle mass and retain the will to live

 

[ethel]

i think i tend to put on muscle. i can go up and down by about 20lbs and i stay the same dress size. i eat constantly though. i am shocked that i'm not about 20 stone.

 

[sojourner]

genes apparently, the complete lack of desire to eat once full, with no difficulty, and the fidgeting

Well that's a load of bollocks. Like BA, the only time I'm not hungry is just after I've eaten a huge meal. I'm snacking soon after that

I do fidget but christ, not that much

 

[madzone]

I had a great aunt who was thin no matter what she did. My Great Grandad used to say 'It's her ill-nature that keeps her thin'. She wasn't a nice lady. Maybe all you thin peple are just grumpy fuckers

 

[Agent Sparrow]

the complete lack of desire to eat once full, with no difficulty

Not sure I'd count as "thin"* now but I'm certainly in the lower half of the "normal" BMI (where abouts depending on how you're defining the band). I wouldn't say I have no desire to eat once full, but I do know that feel hunger much less after a few days of eating too much. I always thought everyone shared this, but have since heard not.

My theory? I generally think naturally thin people are those who a) tend to be more in tune with their natural hunger response, and b) don't tend to use food as emotional regulation. Of course the two are more often than not linked. And obviously there are exceptions, e.g. both thin and larger people who have a certain genetic make-up which defines their shape.


*cos I almost view "thin" as underweight

 

[girasol]

Well that's a load of bollocks. Like BA, the only time I'm not hungry is just after I've eaten a huge meal. I'm snacking soon after that

I do fidget but christ, not that much

sorry, what is bollocks? There are people who only eat when they're hungry and don't feel like eating otherwise, I'm like that.

I don't understand what you're saying is bollocks. They studied a group of nursery children and showed it: in the study they gave them a plate full of biscuits and chocolate after they had a lunch, some of them continued to munch, others carried on colouring and weren't interested in food.

They didn't say that ONLY people who don't eat when full are skinny, they said there are a number of factors involved, and not eating when full is one of them, and also this kind of behaviour appears to be there from a very early age, implying it may be genetic (they actually tested their genes and found a correlation there)

 

[Agent Sparrow]

They didn't say that ONLY people who don't eat when full are skinny, they said there are a number of factors involved, and not eating when full is one of them, and also this kind of behaviour appears to be there from a very early age, implying it may be genetic (they actually tested their genes and found a correlation there)

There must be a social element to that too though, surely. For example, family practices like enforcing plate clearing, or seeing parents use food as a way of emotional coping.

I have a generally large family and I was podgy myself until I got my eating disorder. Since recovery I have generally got myself in the habit of listening to my body more, and have stabalised my weight without putting really much effort in (other than trying to eat vaguely healthily for most of the time). Interestingly, when I do start putting on weight, it's because I feel slightly "meh" for a lot of the time like I am now, and thus fall back into minor bad habits of comfort eating that I learnt from both parents.

 

[100% masahiko]

The show concludes that calorie consumption equates to weight gain/loss. Thin people resets their bodies on lower calorie values and fat ones on higher.

Big deal.

What wasn't mentioned that drinking and eating foods can cause a huge difference to weight gain/loss. This should explain why the chinese guy had problems in putting on mass as he drank most of the foods.

 

[plasticene]

It woulda been better if they'd used some older people rather than just a bunch of teens/early 20's, to show different tolerance to weight gain over time. Healthy young people with active metabolic rates aren't likley to get fat easily, but some of those kids on the prog will definitely get fat when they hit middle age. If they'd given all that food to someone in their 50's and they didn't put much weight on, now that woulda bin interesting. I used to have an uncle that could, and did, eat and drink as much as he liked and he was always really skinny - and he lived to be 90 too. Studying someone like him woulda been better than that pseudo-science crap last night.

 

[sojourner]

sorry, what is bollocks? There are people who only eat when they're hungry and don't feel like eating otherwise, I'm like that.

I don't understand what you're saying is bollocks. They studied a group of nursery children and showed it: in the study they gave them a plate full of biscuits and chocolate after they had a lunch, some of them continued to munch, others carried on colouring and weren't interested in food.

They didn't say that ONLY people who don't eat when full are skinny, they said there are a number of factors involved, and not eating when full is one of them, and also this kind of behaviour appears to be there from a very early age, implying it may be genetic (they actually tested their genes and found a correlation there)

That's the impression I got from what you said - I didn't see the programme. That's why I said it was bollocks