How do people stay thin?

[SillyBear]

I've wanted to lose weight for a while now, and I have tried nearly everything (except diet pills and starving, I have my standards). The weird thing is that quite a few people I know tend to stay thin despite regularly eating burger king and such. I know some of them do work out, but some (like my girlfriend) somehow can stay thin without working out and despite apparently eating a lot (hell, I'm in much worse shape than my girlfriend, yet I have an easier time walking, thank you Mini-Boot Camp). I gotta ask, when it comes to those people, what's their secret?

Then burn more calories than they intake.

Not rocket science budd.

 

[Liberaliter]

Eat less, exercise more. There is a reason this is the advice you will get from most people, it works.

 

[Hummmy]

Yeah. As already said, a good metabolism.
I'm 20 and I have eaten like an ox for years and I'm only like 59kgs, uh.. 130lbs? Yeah.

And combine that with being 6"2' I would say I'm underweight.
I actually want to put some weight on, but and I can't.

 

[Zerazar]

A mild eating disorder keeps me "fit"(on the verge of health risks from underweight). Judging from what I eat and how much exercise I get I would probably end up suffering from many of the symptoms of obesity when I grow older though. Still, there's time to fix that. I'm only 19 thus far.

 

[Hyper-space]

Weight loss is easy. Eat less, do more stuff.

Don't say "easy", because it isn't. Say it is simple.

Metabolisms my boy, metabolisms.

That isn't how people stay thin. It is how they stay alive.

Metabolisms my boy, metabolisms.

This, I eat like a pig and hardly work out (except a 1-hour basketball session with my friends every week), yet i'm still thin as fuck.

What do you do for a living? I doubt you take in as many calories as you vaguely imply you do.

I'm a student and spend most of my time in front of computers, both in school and at home.

When it comes to calorie-intake, I eat whatever (often times fast food, don't do much cooking) and regularly, which is that I don't let myself become hungry for more than 2 hours or so.

 

[crudus]

Simple is also appropriate, but I'd ague easy is too. It takes little effort to lose weight, people make a bigger deal out of it than they should. Drinking water instead of soda is easy. Taking a walk is easy. The things needed to lose weight are easy and relatively minor lifestyle changes. It's harder to lose weight than gain weight, but that hardly means weight loss isn't easy.

Losing a lot of weight in a short period of time isn't as easy, but no one specified 10 pounds or 100, 5 years or a month.

Typically people want to lose weight pretty quickly. At that point it is hard because you are fighting the urge to eat, because your body thinks you are starving. However, if your goal is just a few pounds a month, then it is easy. Although that generally isn't most people's goals.

I'm a student and spend most of my time in front of computers, both in school and at home.

When it comes to calorie-intake, I eat whatever (often times fast food, don't do much cooking) and regularly, which is that I don't let myself become hungry for more than 2 hours or so.

So walking between classes, carrying you backpack, using brain power (takes up ~80 percent of the calories we eat), I would put my money on the fact that you fidget(350 Calories a day, equivalent to a 30 minute run), and I am sure slamming away at the keyboard burns more Calories than you think. It isn't your metabolism; you burn more Calories than you realize.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

I walk often, that and I eat little. There used to be days where I wouldn't cook, as I'd rather use the time doing something I enjoy, such as reading or such. I often regard having to cook as a distraction.