As I’ve stated in the past, I used to be out of shape, but I started working out and got it together. But even in my sloppiest days, I was never really that “fat”. I maybe gained 10-15lbs max (most notably around the mid-section), which I lost pretty quickly after getting my lazy ass used to a jogging routine. Why was this?
Recently I can across this British documentary called “Why Are Thin People Not Fat?” and it demonstrated some very interesting explanations to the reasons why some people are heavier than others, why some eat more when already full and why some of us find it hard to gain or lose the amount of weight that we want.
This was probably the most interesting section of the documentary in which they demonstrate that our eating habits are set within us as children (as possibly are even with us genetically at birth).
Okay…a little full disclosure. I wasn’t a “fat” kid when I was younger…but I was kinda chubby. Then I hit a growth spurt, shooting to 6-feet-tall, spreading my excess “chunk” all over my new lanky teenage body.
But as stated in the video, those excess fat cells I had as a kid are still with me to this day. And they’re programmed to CONSTANTLY fill up with fat no matter how much cardio or weight lifting I do to shrink them.
[Also, from what I understand, the fat cells in your midsection are the hardest to shrink. Its usually the last area to go.]
So that brings us back to the question before the break. Why does a slim guy like me find it hard to get fat…And why do heavy guys find it hard to stay slim even after dieting and exercise?
Are we really fighting our bodies’ programming? What’s your take on the theories proposed in the documentary?
– Nick D
Nick Delmacy
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When are we going to except the fact that we are all created differently. Weight has become so political in America, it’s seen like race and social levels. All of our bodies process food differently but when is some body going to challenge being fit does not equate healthy. Yes you might be all muscled up, cut up, curves and booty all in the right place, but what about our spirits and mind. Are we not mind, body and spirit. It’s interesting how even that statement has been distorted. Putting Spirit last and mind first and we all know how deceptive the mind can be. Leaving the Body to follow all that it says it should be, look like and perform like. Maybe one day some one will have enough compassion, strength and humility to really go in on the topic of weight and what is really gained and what’s really lost.
I learned so much here. I’m trying to get my weight in control. I’m straight-thin but gay-fat. LMBO.