Americans, the fattest people in the world!

That doesn't work for obese people because they take a lot more food to reach 'full'. The flip side of that problem is that they see hunger as the enemy. A bad thing, which must be addressed asap. If they can change that mindset to welcome a (mild) feeling of hunger for most of their waking hours apart from immediately after eating, they will change their lives. I stand by that. It's all about seeing (again, mild) hunger as a sign you're on the right track, rather than a problem.

We should all feel slightly hungry again within an hour or so of eating. If we don't, we've eaten too much for our input/output ratio.

 

Meant to add ... it's not about starvation level hunger. It's about not feeling full.

 

She looks like the color of corpses, so I guess if you are into corpses, she has really good skin. Lol.

 

Okay, that I can agree with. You certainly don't have to eat until you are full, just until you don't feel hunger anymore.

 

Sure, I guess if you are used to gorging yourself with food, you will be hungry when you try portion control. All this talk about being hungry is making me hungry though! Lol!

 

Yeah, I am. My body just burns it off even though I am not an exercise freak. I think it's genetic. Get it from my dad who has always been thin.

 

I'd say that's her make up. It looks ghastly. Her neck area shows her natural skin tone, which is ivory and flawless (excluding it's fatosity!).

 

It's not genetic. You probably learned 'activity/movement as the norm' from him. I'll wager he was active.

 

But that 'not hungry anymore' feeling shouldn't last more than an hour or so. If it does, you've either eaten too much, or not exercised enough to burn off what you ate.

 

Well, I think different strokes for different folks too. Most people know (or should know) their limitations. I am a person who has to eat breakfast in the morning. I get sick if I don't eat something in the morning, but I don't gorge myself on a huge breakfast. Sometimes I might even have a Carnation instant breakfast or some kind of nutrition shake.

 

He was an engineer who worked all his working life in an office. His activity level was what I would call normal but not extraordinary in any way. I'm the same way. At 61 I still get up and go to work about 100 hours a month because I enjoy working. I teach now, and I spend a lot of time on my feet, but it is not strenuous. My friends sort of marvel at the fact that I can eat anything I like and I never gain weight. I honestly think I just inherited my dad's metabolism.

It has its downsides, though. Without hardly any body fat, a cool breeze will cause me to throw on a jacket. I've got friends with more body fat who can stand cooler weather by far more easily than I can. But I guess the up side outweighs the down side, so I just accept my good fortune.

 

You have an active metabolism.

 

Active people can have sit down jobs. It's all about incidental exercise. If outside of working hours, you tend to potter around rather than sit for hours at a time, you're active. You won't even realise you're doing it, and you won't necessarily notice it in others. Active people get fidgety after sitting still for more than about 20 minutes, and have to either keep changing positions, start toe tapping/leg jiggling, or getting up to do something for a few minutes. That's all it takes. Usually the only people who notice that you are active are the very sedentary types. The ones who want you to 'sit still', or keep asking you to take a load off.

FTR, I also feel the cold, but I prefer cold to heat any day. I feel the heat more so, and I'm skinny. Might just be preference?

 

I don't think it is super harmful as long as you don't overdo it. Some people eat nothing but junk all the time and then complain that they are overweight. That is just how some people are. It has to do with just making bad choices or not caring at all. Like Crank said, calories in, calories out. If you are taking in more than you are burning, then you are going to gain weight.

 

Which is caused by ... ACTIVITY.

 

Who would go to the beach with that body? Lol. J/K . . . well, not really.

 

There's your answer. Activity isn't about strenuousness, it's about not sitting down. The act of holding ourselves upright on our legs burns vastly more calories than does sitting. It's that easy.

 

@Seth Bullock, have you had your thyroid checked out?

 

No one. Thankfully.

However, we can have that skin and a beautiful body to house it in ... if we stay off the beach

 

Thyroid problems account for very few under/over weight issues. It's not that common.

 

@Seth Bullock, you might find this interesting too.

http://www.earlytorise.com/fast-metabolism/

 

Yeah, but I work with other men my age doing the same job, and they are in reasonably good shape, but with the pot bellies and such that I just don't have.

Thanks. I actually can gain weight by working out and intentionally gaining muscle, but I can sit around and not gain fat. I read the article and about the different body types. I think I'm most like the "mesomorph" sort of in the vein of a basketball player or swimmer. I don't think I'm an ectomorph because, although I can't seem to gain fat, I can gain muscle by working for it.

True story ... I went into Army basic training at about 165 lbs, and came out 8 weeks later at 185 lbs, and, typically of me, no fat. Best shape of my life. But as the years went by, falling into the work life, raising kids, etc, etc, there was no way I could keep up that level of muscle-building (or maybe I just got lazy). I kinda leveled off at 180 for a long time and then gradually lost a little more. I weigh around 175 now.

I think my thyroid is OK. I've had regular check-ups during my life, and my doctors have done their blood tests and never expressed any concern about that. My dad isn't as tall as I am, but I think his heaviest weight ever was around 165. He's still alive at 91, and he's still skinny. So, I just chalk it up to inherited genetics.

 

Yeah, it's normal in the Netherlands but where is that "where we live"?

 

I am the same way. Always been skinny. I don't like over eating because it makes me feel bad. Don't know why it's just always been that way with me. I am an excellent cook because I enjoy good food. The taste and quality of the food I eat is more important to me than the quantity.

 

That skin-coloured scarf doesn't help improve the appearance? Looks like a load of wattle at first!