How do certain people who dont exercise stay remarkably thin?

Eat bacon, don't jog

Everyone that says they have it "figured out" are under the age of 40.

Don't be a sports fanatic when yr young, cuz you have to keep it up till you die, if you don't wanna get fat, yr metabolism gets used to the amount of work out.

Pretty dull but be moderate in everything, stay at least 10 under yr hight (1.85 high means 75 kg). 1 kg over; start to eat less (no diets) and move more. Proven the best after 55 years.

if genetics or different bodies didn't factor into this, why do we accept this when it comes to speed?

Some people can run their first marathon and go sub-3. Some people take forever to get there... or never.

If individuality had no impact on these things, why isn't there a similar Miles In = Speed Out equation

and eat healthy real own made food of course

practice and work out every day a bit differently

you need to get exhausted min 2x a day

Never been above 140 lbs. in my life.

I just use the calculator and track my calories. Very easy

Where is that "proven best after 55 years?"

I'm over 60 & eat a ton of food (100% organic whole foods diet). I also work out every single day for almost 2 hrs a pop (HIIT cardio, weight training & stretching).

As you get older, exercise over diet is the key to healthy aging.

The saying that you cannot outrun a bad diet is true. A 10 mile run for most takes between 70 and 90 minutes. It burns about 1000 cal. I can eat that in under 10 minutes.

You can do all the situps and crunches that you want but if you eat too much, you ain’t gonna have abs.

No wonderer. Can assure you what's proven me, rest is up to you what you wanna read, believe or do.

So, you are not thin? Because of your exercise, food out of balance?

Exercise yes, diet NO in the sense of an specific food plan and amount.

Diets make no sense because you can not keep up with it.

Yr food needs to be balanced out in a healthy way every day, always focused on what type of metabolism you have and what you do.

Balanced out is the thing in every sense, not diet.

They only eat when they're hungry. What they do eat is usually reasonable.

In high school physics we got weighed and I remember a girl was mad because I weighed less than her. I was 5'9 and 125 lbs. When I was younger I used to get called a "lanky streak of p***" (by a guy who was really short).

I never used to exercise. I didn't start running until I was 30, just before the pandemic. I'm 35, almost 36 now and weigh 135 lbs at 5'10, not too different from high school.

My mum has always cooked, so I have avoided a lot of processed food.

Last year I didn't run for 5 months due to injury. I actually lost a few lbs, probably off my calves and thighs. I was sedentary the whole time (which actually messed my hamstrings up).

I remember when I was going to have a cosmetic surgery and the doctor stood behind me in front of a tall mirror. He was over 6 foot, but when he stood behind me he was almost twice as wide and he looks like a regular (albeit very tall) man. So I probably don't put on weight because my frame is too small. I have seen runners with much smaller frames but my waist and hips are very narrow.

High sugar intake and being active will keep you skinny.

Not always correct. Have you heard of malabsorption? People who have this condition don’t absorb nutrients/calories efficiently and a lot of it can just pass through them without getting absorbed efficiently. So as an example if you feed a person with a normal digestion 3000 calories per day they may put on weight but if you feed a person with malabsorption the same amount of calories they may lose weight.

You must have the bone structure of a pterandon.

One thing I've never understood about weight loss is this? Don't some people just shi* out more food.

If i eat twice as much as you but my body shi*s it all out, I might be skinnier, no?

But did you follow them 24 h for a day?

Or even several days?

My experience is that people who tend to be on the larger scale eats a lot more snacks in between meals n thats where the culprit lies.

This is obvious but doesn't answer the question at all. These are people who can't think critically and just parrot talking points. Very sad.

Thanks for sharing ^

60 yrs old 5'9" weighing in at 157 lbs most days. Consider myself skinny-fat until about June when I can get down to racing weight.

I have had that same observation about snacking and just overeating in general. People can experiment with it on themselves too and you will notice how much of a difference is makes cutting out empty snacks. Same goes for drinking which can add extra pounds through a variety of ways. If people cut down on drinking they would notice a difference. And I suppose drinking could also include cutting down on not just alcohol, but also the high sugary/processed sodas and coffees.

I also suspect that activity level is very low for a lot of these people. You have to maintain a solid level of activity throughout the entire week to really see benefits. You can't be active two days and take the rest of the week off. And activity doesn't have to be intense each day, but enough to get your body moving in a productive way.