Originally Posted by
cyccommute
The rest of the above article also points out that we aren't black boxes, thermodynamically. We are a complex system that isn't easily boiled down to an energy in/energy out equation.
I watched a study on youtube where the slim participants were locked away for 2 weeks and had to eat twice their normal daily intake (around 5000 calories, as I recall). Most of them didn't gain as much body fat as expected, and all of them returned to their pre-study weight easily.
There's something that goes on in their body that doesn't go on in mine (or others that have a lifetime struggle with weight). I don't know what causes these differences. Is it something from my early childhoood, genetics, something else? I don't know. I can keep weight off after I lose it, but it's always a struggle. If I ate what I wanted, my weight would constantly increase. My hunger doesn't regulate the way it should.
It's called "
Why are Thin People not Fat".
Watching "
The Skinny on Obesity" really seems to describe how my body seems to work to me.
Low carb eating makes it better, but my body still doesn't regulate well.