Are you incapable of putting on weight?

Richard Dower · 23-01-2011 05:35AM #1

Watching a late night program on the BBC, basically it had several guinea pigs who are all naturally slim to average, they tried for 30 days to load up on the junk food to see if they could gain weight, none of them did!....some even lost weight.

Ergo, some people have a genetic predisposition to being skiiny or they can eat a cow and never put on weight, while the program didn't tell me i hadn't already known about myself i'm wondering if others are in the same boat?

Sheeps · 23-01-2011 05:38AM

i believe they refer to it as metabolism

Sheeps · 23-01-2011 05:39AM

give they aul creotine a whack and you'll put on weight

starbelgrade · 23-01-2011 05:41AM

Does my ass look fat in this thread?

Richard Dower · 23-01-2011 05:46AM

Sheeps wrote: »

i believe they refer to it as metabolism

It's not metabolism, it's genetics.

RichieC · 23-01-2011 05:47AM

Yep, no matter what I eat I never put on an ounce, been 10 and a half stone for 10 years now.

All my family started packing on a few stone once they hit 25, not me, though.

I'm a racehorse! :cool:

Blatter · 23-01-2011 05:50AM

Eat more calories than you burn and you will put on weight.

Simples.

I don't buy this ''oh I have a high metabolism, I can't put on weight''

Man the f*** up and eat more you little bitch.

(Not directed at you OP, at people who moan about not being able to put on weight)

CrazyBiscuit · 23-01-2011 05:53AM

I eat like a machine but never seem to put on weight. I have always been skinny.

RichieC · 23-01-2011 05:54AM

CrazyBiscuit wrote: »

I eat like a machine but never seem to put on weight. I have always been skinny.

I'm the same, and i can be a right hooer for the fast foods!

RichieC · 23-01-2011 05:54AM

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

Eat more calories than you burn and you will put on weight.

Simples.

I don't buy this ''oh I have a high metabolism, I can't put on weight''

Man the f*** up and eat more you little bitch.

(Not directed at you OP, at people who moan about not being able to put on weight)

Sure thing, fatty! :P

CrazyBiscuit · 23-01-2011 05:55AM

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

Eat more calories than you burn and you will put on weight.

Simples.

I don't buy this ''oh I have a high metabolism, I can't put on weight''

Man the f*** up and eat more you little bitch.

(Not directed at you OP, at people who moan about not being able to put on weight)

Why should a man have to put on weight?

Tar.Aldarion · 23-01-2011 05:55AM

nope, infact i put on 3 stone in the last year or two that i must get rid of

damn those people!

Blatter · 23-01-2011 05:58AM

Richard Dower wrote: »

It's not metabolism, it's genetics.

No, it is metabolism.

Genetics is just a factor that alters metabolism like gender/activity rate etc.

Hurricane-Dean · 23-01-2011 05:58AM

I've always eaten loads and never gained anything and when I was working I had McDonalds most days for lunch and still stayed the same

Barna77 · 23-01-2011 06:04AM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

nope, infact i put on 3 stone in the last year or two that i must get rid of

damn those people!

Not to mention christmas.....

Tar.Aldarion · 23-01-2011 06:05AM

Barna77 wrote: »

Not to mention christmas.....

shure all the cushion help in some sort of car crash scenario right? right?!

Blatter · 23-01-2011 06:07AM

RichieC wrote: »

Sure thing, fatty! :P

You're so skinny that you use dental floss as toilet paper.

RichieC · 23-01-2011 06:15AM

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

You're so skinny that you use dental floss as toilet paper.

lol, you're so fat that you eh.... have to wear big trousers..

Okay I've got nothing.

seanybiker · 23-01-2011 06:24AM

I'm trying for a few years to put on weight. I'm at 13.6 stone now. Want to get to 14 and ill be happy. If I don't eat for a day the weight drops off me. I'm even eating green hula hoops and all to help it and I really don't like green hula hoops.

Blatter · 23-01-2011 06:36AM

seanybiker wrote: »

I'm even eating green hula hoops and all to help it and I really don't like green hula hoops.

Try to eat food that's not out of date, it tastes better.

seanybiker · 23-01-2011 06:39AM

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

Try to eat food that's not out of date, it tastes better.

But they're chewy

RichieC · 23-01-2011 06:44AM

ahhhahaha.. poor, wrong thread

Rizzla King · 23-01-2011 07:12AM

I eat a take away 3/4 times a week and I'm still 10 stone. Used to be 12.

Its all about the between treats.....

Lumen · 23-01-2011 07:52AM

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

No, it is metabolism.

Genetics is just a factor that alters metabolism like gender/activity rate etc.

Energy usage is largely governed by lean body mass. We covered all this in the fatties thread.

Sisko · 23-01-2011 11:27AM

Yep I'm one of those people.

Would be great if I was a normal weight 1st and then was unable to gain any but being stuck being skinny - as a bloke - is annoying.

Was much more annoying as a teen when your self conscious etc, also chicks seem to look at skinny men the way men look at fat chicks.

Still was funny when me and my friends all got into our twenties and all of them seem to just automatically get tubby meanwhile I looked exactly the same. That goes for everyone I knew in school , keep seeing people I knew in school who recognise me instantly, where as I've no idea till I realise its a much much fatter version of someone I knew years ago.

Still I'd rather be a little over weight then a little underweight. I'd be far more comfortable going topless at a beach for example then.

23-01-2011 11:33AM

It's the most irritating and infuriating thing when someone mocks you for being thin, though it makes it somewhat funny when I'm far healthier than those doing the mocking.

Plumpynutt · 23-01-2011 11:36AM

yep, im skinny as fcuk. ill eat something and be hungry half an hour later.
im incapable of putting on any weight, been around the 9 stone mark for years now.

watna · 23-01-2011 11:43AM

Unfortunately not. I could eat anything I wanted and stay the same weight until I hit about 25 and then that changed and the weight crept on. I had to go on a diet and everything (I did lose it but now have to "watch what I eat" which let's face it, sucks. If I could talk to 16 year old me I'd tell her to stuff her face with cakes and things while she can because in ten years time she'll be counting the weight watchers points and cake will become her mortal enemy. To be fair, I didn't put on nearly as much weight as I should given what I was eating which just proves that metabolism is an unfair thing!

To all you skinnies out there in their late teens/early twenties enjoy it while you can. You too will turn in to a fatty one day.

neil_ · 23-01-2011 11:49AM

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

Eat more calories than you burn and you will put on weight.

Simples.

I don't buy this ''oh I have a high metabolism, I can't put on weight''

Man the f*** up and eat more you little bitch.

(Not directed at you OP, at people who moan about not being able to put on weight)

This is the simple truth.. Some people do naturally burn more calories without doing anything but really the VAST majority of people are pretty similar, accounting for height/age/sex differences. I've met lots of people who have said they can't lose/gain weight, I don't think a single one of them was actually keeping track of their daily caloric intake. You get a lot of people saying they eat a gigantic takeaway every day, but then it turns out that they skip breakfast :rolleyes:

I have to eat a silly amount of food to gain weight but that's just because I exercise a lot and don't eat junk food much.

iPlop · 23-01-2011 11:53AM

Im naturally thin and at the moment Im ingesting large quantities of maas weight gain (not the shit you buy from argos full of fillers,the real stuff)which is having some effect but very little.My sisters are the same but they love the way they can eat and eat and stay thin.Im trying to tone up and it's a pain in the bollocks trying to gain weight

rubadub · 23-01-2011 11:55AM

I have found most lean people who tell me they eat like horses do not eat nearly as much as they think they do. There are a poster in the fitness forum trying to bulk up and his diet was similar to mine when I was trying to lose weight.

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~pel/fat/fat_genetics

It began with studies that were the inspiration of Dr. Ethan Sims at
the University of Vermont, who asked what would happen if thin people
who had never had a weight problem deliberately got fat.

His subjects were prisoners at a nearby state prison who volunteered
to gain weight. With great difficulty, they succeeded, increasing
their weight by 20 percent to 25 percent. But it took them four to
six months, eating as much as they could every day. Some consumed
10,000 calories a day, an amount so incredible that it would be hard
to believe, were it not for the fact that there were attendants
present at each meal who dutifully recorded everything the men ate.

Once the men were fat, their metabolisms increased by 50 percent.
They needed more than 2,700 calories per square meter of their body
surface to stay fat but needed just 1,800 calories per square meter
to maintain their normal weight.

When the study ended, the prisoners had no trouble losing weight.
Within months, they were back to normal and effortlessly stayed
there.

The implications were clear. There is a reason that fat people cannot
stay thin after they diet and that thin people cannot stay fat when
they force themselves to gain weight. The body's metabolism speeds up
or slows down to keep weight within a narrow range. Gain weight and
the metabolism can as much as double; lose weight and it can slow to
half its original speed.

10,000 is not incredible to me, I would have had that much in a day before a few times.

Are you incapable of putting on weight?

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