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Originally Posted by kanik  Yeah I cant put on weight for crap... I can eat more in one meal than any one person in my house does in a day. Or another exmple... In a day I eat more than any two people in my household often people look at me like I am some sort of monster with what I eat, and I still dont put on weight. I lose weight if I skip ONE meal by accident. Grrrrr!!! Cursed fast metabolism!!! |
Again this comes back to perceptions of what a large amount of food is.
Ask a really fat person what they eat and " i dont eat that much, it must be my slow metabolism"
Ask a really thin person what they eat and "i eat LOADS and i cant put on weight/muscle"
Now with the fat person you KNOW they are lieing or just dont know what a normal portion is so.......you get me?
Metabolic rates in humans vary between about 1500-2500 in men.
As a base of what a male needs to tick over ie in bed all day.
You dont get guys with 4000 calorie a day requirements at rest.
If you look at the calories in food, you probably arent eating all that much.
In volume it may be a reasonably amount.
For instance, in the diet i made for michael there, the amount of rice in cooked weight is about 1-1.2Kg. THats a fair volume of rice. Calorie wise though its only 1200 calories, thats less than a big mac meal from Mcds.
But in volume it makes 4 meals. Conversely ice cream or chocolate is packed with calories and a fat person doesnt need to eat loads to have a huge calorie intake.
If you were to accurately work out the calorie count of what you eat it would be lower than you think. Metabolic rates just dont vary THAT much, what does vary is people perceptions of what large portions of food are.