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My dad and my uncle used to work together.

Every day before lunch, they would jum on the industrial scale.
then they would eat lunch.
My dad would eat one sandwich.
My uncle would eat a thermos full of sloppy joes, 1/2 loaf of bread, a quart jar of peaches, and a thermos full of coffee.

After lunch they would jump back on the scale.
My dad, after eating one peanut butter sandwich would have gained 3lbs.
My uncle's weight would remain the same.

How can you take 2-3lbs of food off a table and eat it without at least gaining the weight of the food?
So there is something more here than just lifestyle choices.

Otherwise my uncle, who eats like a horse, still, would be the fat guy.

 

DH is 50 and has the same lean body as in his 20's.
All the exercise he makes is help around the house once or twice a week, carrying shopping bags ditto, washing the car twice a month.
He eats lots of bread, butter, olives, lupines, and adds salt to everything.
He eats meat but chases away all the fat.
He loves snails and seafood too. He cooks snails with bacon.
Has beer at lunch & dinner 90% of the times.
Doesn't care much for desserts but when he does, he likes them extremely sugary.
He keeps gummy bears at the office and home and has them as a snack.
His dad was like him, and several cousins too.
His sister is definitely overweight, his mother just borderline overweight.

Yeah, I think if we look at all the people we know, we can see some people who are fat because they eat like pigs and never exercise, thin people who are thin because they eat nothing and work out like they're training for the boston marathon, fat people who have been doing weight watchers and working out for years and have only lost a few lbs, thin people who eat like pigs and never work out and stay thin.  There is obviously more to your body weight than just calories in/calories out.  There are obviously genetic issues, metabolism issues, psychological issues, etc...

 :lol: The question comes from a documentary made by BBC Horizon last year and shown here recently - the title being "Why aren't thin people fat?" or some such (hmm, the question I used may not have been the best phrasing).

Interesting experiment - they took thin people and made them eat MANY more calories than usual for four weeks and then monitored them to see what they did with the excess. One showed compensatory (unconscious) fidgeting, one could not get the food down and was sick, one put on more muscle and had an increase in metabolism. Some gained a few kg but within two weeks after the end of the 4 weeks were back at their starting weight. But check out the links - although they are reviews/blurbs about the doccie, they make for interesting reading in themselves, especially the comments of the reviewer in the last link!

I unfortunately missed this documentary when it was shown here a few weeks ago, but one of my lecturers mentioned it in class (which got me thinking and indirectly led me to SLD via Martha Beck) - I finally remembered to google it. Some of the reviews and stuff written around it is interesting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7838668.stm

http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/horizon-%E2%80%93-why-are-thin-people-not-fat/

http://www.tvscoop.tv/2009/01/tv_review_horiz_10.html

Such a pity that they don't seem to know anything about SLD, especially the tvscoop reviewer!

Most of us were all skinny at a point of our lives, but due to our imperfection and lack of real food many of us have health issues especially obesity.