Comment by TheSpiceIsLife
3 years ago
On the matter of food and weight...
What of the people who tend toward being thin or lithe? I'm 181cm and 68kg (5'11.26" and 150 pounds) at 40 years old.
I can eat and quantity of any food in perpetuity and not gain weight. Although they doesn't mean I don't feel unwell if I were to, say, eat way too much of something.
If I lift weights I gain a small amount of muscle mass, but not much.
What's the theory(ies) of what is going on in the bodies of those like this?
I thought I was like this. Track your calories. Eat 3000 calories a day, and a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight (150 grams for you). And I promise you'll gain weight, unless you have something wrong with your digestive system. It's actually pretty hard to eat like that consistently for many skinny people.
My brother-in-law is even thinner than you. He can eat a lot of stuff.
He also has Crohn's disease. I don't want to say that you have, too, but perhaps your digestive system isn't completely OK. That may include composition of your microbiome. Have you ever seen any change after taking probiotics?
You're like my wife and her siblings. They can eat just about anything without putting on any significant weight. The running theory is that the food is not absorbed as efficiently, possibly due to it moving through the bowels too quickly, as some of them have IBS.