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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Nitack, if only it were that easy, besides the fact it's very difficult to judge how much we should eat. many eating disorders slow down the metabolism and cause the retention of fat in ways a healthy person would never do. When you are inactive for one reason or another eating less is so very easy to say and so very difficult to do. Once you start gaining weight it becomes a vicious circle of eating and slowing down and getting bigger. Once you get so to a certain size just maintaining your weight becomes a starvation diet compared to what an active healthy person can eat. Food becomes the only recreation you really have and the cycle repeats getting worse and worse. I truly hope you never have a weight problem but if you do you will eat the words you have allowed to run out of your mouth.
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August 19, 2008; San Francisco - A presentation at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society.
Presenter - Dr. Daniel Bessesen, an endocrinologist and professor of medicine at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver
Metabolism alone doesn't explain how thin people stay thin
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It is unclear how some individuals remain thin in the current obesigenic environment that promotes significant weight gain in the majority of people. However, researchers with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver say it is not because thin people have a faster metabolism or metabolize their food differently than obese people
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“Overall, we found no evidence that thin people have a higher metabolic rate on a regular diet or that they burn more energy following a period of overfeeding,” Dr. Bessesen said. “The most important take-home message for clinicians is that people who are tending to gain weight may not be getting accurate information on how much they are eating through biologic mechanisms. So self-monitoring might be an important tool for them, such as keeping food diaries and food records, because they may be eating more than they think.”
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This would seem to disagree with part of your premise that it is a metabolism issue.
