You’re a slow muscle type. Those I know like you, have no problem metabolizing food. They have lower body fat.
There are no fat people in my family, so you’re right, genes play a big part, but lets face it. You see people balloon when they get to college, or they work in sedentary jobs.
I used to own a Gold’s gym. women would join to lose wt. Guess what, most gained weight.
You shouldn’t exercise when you’re starting out on a low carb, high protein diet to lose wt.
The bottom line, it is a complex problem, but the American diet, that is rich with bad carbs, (ie processed foods, breads, soda etc), is the biggest culprit here.
I think too, the environment. I’m in West GA. I’ve never seen so many fat Adult II diabetics in one place in my life.
Only because they either don’t eat or get a lot of exercise. Our genes also impact our appetite. I know some slow muscle folks that are skinny, but they don’t eat, I mean they think they eat, but they’re confused. They come in starving, eat one of out two tacos on the plate two bites of the sides and are stuffed. I kind of hate them. I can eat, I mean I can EAT. I try hard not to, but sometime you get tired of being hungry.
The biggest culprit is that we live a life other than what our body evolved for. The human body expects to eat a square meal every couple of weeks and mostly starve in between. It craves fat and sugar, which is why we enjoy them so much because the body rewards us with endorphins when we eat them. It wants to store up an extra 30 pounds because winter is coming and food will be hard to find. We simply aren’t geared for a reality without scarcity where we can acquire thousands of calories of food while expending basically none.
The freshman 15 is all part of that. I actually was skinny in my youth, had no food, had no money, walked an hour and a half to work which was on my feet. Went to college, got a real job, fixed all that. I ain’t going back to that. I don’t want to go back to one meal a day, I don’t want to be on my feet all day, I LIKE my life this way, I’d just like about 30 pounds of it to go away. But of course in the end I’m MUCH healthier now than then, I don’t get sick as often, I can do more with less pain. The fact is in my skinny days I was running my body on the edge, and it wasn’t a good thing.
Georgia, comfort food. Mmmmm.