Reincarnation technique is good
No kidding, this is probably the closest answer to the truth.
You'll see a lot of posts like this on a social platform:
Interrupt a little. If your friend is born thin and has never been fat, that is, the legendary "easy to lose weight", then what you summarized is probably not of much reference value.
Why?
Because there was once a famous academic boss in the field of metabolism, academician of China, the United States and the United Kingdom, John Roger Speakman also thought so-
We always pay attention to what the fat man does wrong, but rarely pay attention to what the thin man does right, and the password to lose weight is hidden here!
So they quickly carried out a study on the thin group, and the results were ...... The answer was unexpected!
Thin people exercise less and have a higher metabolic rate
The study was conducted in China.
After excluding people who deliberately dieted, people with anorexia, and individuals who lost weight due to illness or medication, the researchers found 150 healthy lean individuals who claimed to not eat fat, all of whom had a BMI of less than 18.5. As a control, were 173 participants with a BMI in the normal range.
Over the next two weeks, all participants were monitored for physical activity, food intake, and metabolic rate. Researchers expect to see these skinny people who don't eat fat eat more and manage their weight with a lot of exercise.
「...... As it turned out, something very different had happened," says Professor Speakman, adding that none of the 150 skinny people fit society's perception of the group.
First of all, the amount of exercise of thin people is not large, and it is even much lower than that of ordinary people.
Compared with the normal BMI control group, lean individuals had lower levels of physical activity and energy expenditure from physical activity, and were 23% less active than the normal group.
The data shows that at any time of the day, lean individuals have a lower than average level of physical activity, and exhibit more sedentary behavior and less strenuous exercise.
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What's even more heartbreaking is that even without exercise, thin people can maintain a higher metabolic rate than expected!
The researchers calculated the theoretical energy expenditure of the participants by age, body fat and other values, but there was a big discrepancy with the actual measurements.
Especially in resting metabolism, lean people actually consume 22% more energy, while normal weight people consume 2.5% less.
No, lean people who exercise less have a higher metabolic rate? Is this in line with the laws of nature?
Researchers speculate that this may be due to the higher thyroid hormone levels in the skinny men, which may be related to "the presence of single nucleotide polymorphisms in some genes in these individuals."
After doing it for a long time, the weight loss code is hidden in the genes. Less exercise and high metabolism, is it a talent that we mortals can learn?
Disturbed, scattered.
Oh yes, and as for eating, studies have found that skinny people eat 12% fewer calories than normal-weight people.
However, they think they eat a lot, and they don't think they eat fat, what does this mean, friends?
This shows that their "eating less" is not the result of hard work to keep their mouths shut!
Thin people eat less, not the result of restraint
For people who need to lose weight, keeping their mouths shut is undoubtedly a very difficult hurdle. But those naturally thin people don't seem to need to put much effort into their diet.
For example, some skinny friends have no appetite at every turn, and eating is comparable to a punishment for them, just to survive as a last resort.
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There are also some skinny friends who have a natural preference for healthy food, and they are so tired of eating two bites of fried chicken cake that they want to vomit, and they can buy some snacks until they expire.
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Of course, there are also some thin friends, fried chicken, sweets, drinks and milk tea, but they either don't eat the main meal properly, or the absorption rate and metabolic rate are different from ordinary people.
Much of this is due to genes that influence appetite and food preferences, such as the FTO gene.
In short, naturally thin people basically don't need to keep their mouths shut, because their bodies don't "want" so much.
For others, if they want to achieve so-called controlled eating, they need to overcome significant resistance from the body. Even if you can eat healthy meals every day and create a calorie deficit to lose weight in the short term, it is likely to trigger revenge eating and weight regain in the long run.
Therefore, the content summarized by those posts on the Internet that "learn from thin people", such as not eating when they are not hungry, often forgetting to eat, drinking half a cup of milk tea and not drinking it, eating fried chicken and tearing off the skin, chewing slowly, rarely eating snacks, etc., is not the reason why they are "thin", but the result of appearances.
There wasn't much struggle, there was no need to overdraw self-control, everything just happened naturally.
Unfortunately, it's hard for us to become skinny just by imitating these behaviors. This state of no love-hate entanglement with food, and a state of mind like water, is the key.
If you have to learn something from people who are prone to thin constitution, then you can only learn the reincarnation technique.
Easy to lose weight, is a kind of "genetic lottery"
Don't get me wrong, calling it a genetic lottery doesn't mean being thin as beauty.
It's just that the easy-to-lose physique can indeed save people a lot of trouble in this era when ultra-processed foods are within reach and obesity has become an epidemic.
For a long time, there has been a tacit consensus in the society that thin people have a strict sense of self-management, and their lives are regular and healthy, while fat people have bad habits and are lazy to eat, which has become a seemingly legitimate reason for "obesity discrimination".
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However, more and more studies have confirmed that in the matter of fat and thin, the discourse power of human willpower is pitiful, and genes are the big head.
In 2019, the largest ever study of lean people showed that lean people have a strong genetic advantage in weight retention, they have few genes associated with being overweight, and 74% of them have a family history of persistent weight loss. [2]
Last year, the journal "Nature" also found that about 2%~4% of the population carried a genetic mutation that gave them a stronger ability to metabolize fat, and their body shape was generally significantly thinner. [3]
The disenchantment of the easy-to-thin physique is also a face to obesity discrimination.
In fact, lean people also have their own troubles, such as nutritional and metabolic problems, long-term muscle and bone loss problems, and so on.
It's like everyone is born with a foundation card, some are fat and some are thin, some are tall and some are short, some are E and some are I.
What we want to do is to play our own wonderful life with the cards in our hands, rather than according to a standard, everyone pursues the same "win" with the same hand.
Whether it is easy to lose weight or easy to gain weight, it is more important to strive to play the cards in your hand, slowly explore the parameters and settings of your body, and find a way to make yourself healthier and happier.
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