[Closed] Skinny people....?

If you don't eat much and exercise lots.....

I was pretty skinny up until my 30s and that was without doing vast amounts of exercise, eating whatever I fancied and doing a lot more booze. Since then I've had to be a bit more careful and active just to maintain this current level of portliness.

I really have to work at it.

Mainly as I am a glutton. I won't just have one biscuit...oh no. I'll have the packet.

Currently 1/2>1 stone above fighting weight due to shit diet and injury forced exercise sabbatical.

Work seems to enforce it by sending me to places where the food likes to make me shit my self thin or food so bad i dont even eat it - 1 month on mars bars and lion bars. Mmmmmmm

I'm lucky I guess. I'm slim, eat a lot of food but never put on weight.

I'm pretty active but to be honest I still think I out eat my activity levels.

I have to really work at it. 5'10, 10st 7lbs.

It annoys me slightly when people assume I'm "naturally skinny". It's amazing how watching what you eat and drink, and 10 hours of exercise a week makes you naturally skinny. It's a bit like how eating cake and chocolate and never doing any more exercise than waddling to the sweet shop gives people a "slow metabolism".

^^^^, exactly this.

I can't believe how much some people eat, and then moan about their weight.

I do 7 hours on the bike a week but I am still 2 stone overweight. My fault though as I eat too much. I can lose weight quite easily if I watch what I eat.

Most of what beej said.

I don't think a lot of people really understand how sedentary they are. People often comment on the amount of food I eat (and it's quite a lot) and what they assume my weight is (they underestimate this without fail), but running 15hrs a week with cycling on top. Y'know food is quite useful.

Quality, portion size, 50/25/25, energy expenditure. Rocket science it aint

I eat a lot. Struggle to put weight on. I may get a belly over Christmas if I drink and eat a lot and don't touch the bike

naturally overweight, if you count having a compulsion to finish everything on my plate no matter how inappropriate the portion size, natural.

i have to work really hard to maintain a healthy weight and constantly yo-yo between good for my height and up to 3-4stone too heavy for my height. its not my exercise levels that are the issue, its will power with food.

entirely my fault.

I didn't really answer the question FFS

Yes, I have to work at it. Intentionally managing my weight so I have more fat over winter. Hypothermia is a risk and fat is jolly good at fending it off.

@Phil

I wouldn't beat yourself up too much. Your just doing what nature has programmed you to do.

I found it really helpful to read up on why we eat the way we do, even though it's pretty obvious. Reading up on it enabled me somehow to 'work with it' rather than fight against it.

When it's you vs your instincts, I'd bet on instincts

Naturally skinny - eat reasonably well, love a good cake. 6ft, 12st

I'd say I'm naturally skinny tbh. But then again I can get away with loads of food, as I ride about 15 hours a week.

On this subject, Matt Fitzgeralds book Racing Weight is worth a read

Some great posts already !

I guess if we are on here, we actually think about this stuff !

I am lucky (?) my body will respond to exercise and I enjoy doing it, however to counteract this I am also a natural glutton so any periods of injury etc lead to weight increases....Been injured and have had a lot of etc, this year.

I can understand people who work hard at maintaining a healthy weight being annoyed that it is assumed they are just naturally skinny.

The skinniest people I know however do no/very little exercise. They just don't eat much, because they are just not into eating ?

I'm 6ft and about 12 stone and I STRUGGLE to keep my weight UP. If I stop trying I lose weight. I need to eat stupid amounts and am constantly grazing all evening before and after dinner. It is genuinely annoying. I'd naturally fall to about 10.5 stone if I ate normally. My job is physical and my passion is physical so those combine I guess, but when I lose weight I get achey and too exhausted to work properly.

i just eat, whatever whenever i feel like it, 6ft 11 1/2st.

heaviest i have ever been is just under 12st.

I guess the 150ish miles a week on the bike an aversion to phones at work etc helps?

I've always been skinny - I suppose reasonable levels of activity and not overeating helped with that - but I was never especially fit either. Now I'm getting a lot more exercise than ever before, I'm also about a stone heavier.

Been VERY lucky and always had a slim muscular build (even when I dont do anything) which really pisses people off hehe

I have the odd problem that if I do too much exercise, I get skinny. So I'm forced to eat loads to keep the weight on.

(when I say skinny, I mean lose a kg or so)

I've always been lucky enough to be skinny but able to eat what I want. Probably being active all the time helps but I never used to pay attention to eating healthily or in moderation. I have started eating with more of an eye on health but it's not because of weight.
Being ill and effectively immobile for 7 weeks this year seems to have combined with hitting 35 to give me a bit of a belly which seems to be hard to shift now. I'm not too worried though; we're talking up from 12.5stone to 13ish and rather than being a 32" waist I hover in that awkward area where 32" is too tight but 34" needs a belt. (6'2" tall)

I'm about 18 stone but I'd say I was naturally skinny. I work quite hard at keep this waistline. In other words I'd be skinny as hell if I wasn't a fat greedy bassa! Take away the chocolate and fuzzy juice and I'd be skinny no bother.

I fricken love fuzzy juice!

I'm 5ft 10in tall & 140lbs. occasionally I eat like a pig, but most of the time I look after myself & eat sensibly as I like how strong I feel on the bike.
I also like how a light bike feels, so there doesnt make much sence spending lots on lightweight bike swag, if i was carrying a few pounds myself.

5.10" here and 10.5 stone so skinny as a whippet and could do with putting some on really.

I eat loads but my weight just never seems to increase- similarly, I used to drink loads and never did any exercise whatsoever until my late 20's but then got into mtb and running and was quite worried that I would lose weight and this would be unhealthy for me- but after going from totally sedentary to running half marathons and mtbing every weekend, I didn't lose weight either.

Used to hate it, but don't mind so much now and realise I may be lucky in some ways. Though of course you can still be skinny and unhealthy as f**ck, depending on your lifestyle.

5'10, 40yrs, 70kg (11 stone) is the heaviest I've been. Naturally skinny (as is brother and father so some genetics involved surely)- at the age of 20 I was ~10 stone, started weight training to complement my riding and put nearly a stone on in a month, and basically stayed at that weight +/-1Kg for 20 years.

Not sure how much real science is behind this theory, but anecdotally it seems to hold.

http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/body-types-ectomorph-mesomorph-endomorph.html

I seem to hover around 84kg no matter what (5'11").

I find it almost impossible to lose weight by eating less AND doing exercise. Either is fine on its own though.

I find it almost impossible to lose weight by eating less AND doing exercise

naturally skinny. If I wanted to be fat it'd take a lot of uncomfortable eating.

6' 0.5", 12.5 stone (always between 11-13)

25min cycle commute 10 times a week and 0-5 hours exercise as well (average prob 1 hour). I drink a bit too much and eat some junk on top of an otherwise healthy diet. 44 years old.

To me that means I don't work at being skinny.

There is a free app called myfitnesspal that is pretty good as a motivator.

I slipped back into snacking between meals and visiting bakeries etc which is always tempting when you travel about for work. However when you tally up what you've eaten and you can see the Big Mac you had for lunch is the reason you ate 700 calories more than the day before you quickly get back on track.

Its also good to see what to avoid, sometimes you feel you've been pretty good and you find you've gone over by 500 calories, and other times you've slobbed out in front of the TV surrounded by popcorn, beer mixed nuts and chocolate but your lunch was healthier than you realised and you are under target 🙂

It allows you to set a target weight and after each day it will tell you how much you would weigh if you ate that way everyday.

You can enter most food by scanning the barcode.

uncomfortable eating.

That should be my nickname.

I'm another lucky one.
Lucky that I wasn't brought up to be a lazy fat cake eating bullshitter.
When are people going to take responsibility for themselves and realise that we're all on the same boat, it's just listing a little as the gut lords shovelling more crisps through their disgusting greasy lipped mouths are all congregating at the port bow, probably drawn there by visions of cheese boards.

Always been naturally thin. My natural weight is just over 12 stone. I have to try to put weight on. Even when I was eating absolute shite I didn't put on a pound.

At the moment I am 13 stone at 6'3. I have to eat about 3-3.5k calories to stay at this weight.

It's amazing how watching what you eat and drink, and 10 hours of exercise a week makes you naturally skinny

Nope, not at all.

It works for some, not for others. It's all very different.

If I said 'anyone can gain loads of muscle, all they have to do is lift a few weights, job done' would you agree with that? Cos it's just as false.

You can usually put on MORE muscle that way, same as fat people can LOSE weight by exercising and not stuffing their faces.

But not everyone can realistically become properly skinny, just as not everyone can become a muscle bound hulk or grow a full beard. It's a physical characteristic we just don't all share. There are many many people on here who report the same as Horatio Hufnagel above - don't dismiss us all as idiots in denial about how much we eat!

I can lose weight by doing lots of exercise and eating well, but I never get properly skinny.

Naturally skinny - eat reasonably well, love a good cake. 6ft, 12st

I wouldn't call that skinny 😀 You have one and a half stone on me and I'm half inch taller. I eat a fair bit but just seem to vary my belt notch by 1 hole depending on how much cycling I do.
Thing is when I was at school the majority of people were built like me but 30 years has seen people's sizes increase a lot, there was only one fat kid in my year but now it's something like 30% are overweight.

Another 6ft 12st skinny.
I don't have to work at it, I just eat what I need.

I wouldn't call that skinny You have one and a half stone on me and I'm half inch taller. I eat a fair bit but just seem to vary my belt notch by 1 hole depending on how much cycling I do.
Thing is when I was at school the majority of people were built like me but 30 years has seen people's sizes increase a lot, there was only one fat kid in my year but now it's something like 30% are overweight.

I think the reality is that Normal is now fat, alot of this genes argument is just crap, i would suggest environment is a bigger issue than genetics. People have access to far more food than ever before and what is deemed a normal portion is far more than it was 40-50 years ago. Most people are far more sedentary than ever before in reality people should be eating less, eating smaller portions but people don't. Net effect people are getting bigger, and what is perceived to be normal is also getting bigger.

6ft and 11st 5. Which feels about right( im slim/leanbut feels good on the bike) I am very good with eating and rarely over eat these days. I did once get quite chubby when my wife was away for 6 weeks. No exercise eating crap, she wouldn't sleep with me when she got back! Said I felt like a curvy woman!!!
Bread/biscuits/cheese/meat/booze are not on my eating radar which helps.

5 Years ago I was 5'10 and 96 Kgs. Main sport was Sailing, so an element of cardiovascular but mainly static endurance and a lot of upper body strength.

Then I got into MTB.

I'm now 77kgs.

Weight varies between 77 and 80kg. Race Weight is 74/75Kgs. To drop weight I simply stop boozing and avoid refined sugar. Ramping up the hours on the bike has an impact too.

I'm 5'10" and about 11st. I've always been slim, and until the last couple of years have paid absolutely no attention to the volume of chips and cake I trough.

I think I've just got a high metabolism. I'll probably drop dead by the time I'm 50.

don't dismiss us all as idiots in denial about how much we eat!

Too late butterball, now go and have a cry into your Battenberg.

I should be naturally skinny I think as my frame is pretty small, but due to vast over eating etc I still have a fair bit of fat left to get rid of despite people telling me I'm looking skinny now (and comfortably fitting into size small tops/32" jeans). 5'9" and 12 stone so still a bit over the ideal weight I think. The last little bit is hard to get rid of!

I think I've just got a high metabolism.

It's actually the fatties that tend to have a higher metabolic rate, as their poor bodies have to work hard at shifting their excess mass about the place.
Imagine having to lift a few kilos of moob with every drawn breath; it's quite the workout!

Match stick legged 6'4" 12 stone, naturally skinny always wished I could fatten up.

See all you skinnies who say you eat a lot........ You know fleck all about eating.

Naturally slim (friends say skinny) but even when training hard never lost that last little bit to show a proper six pack. My body seems to react very slowly to changes in routine. I can eat lots or little and stay roughly the same weight and I can train lots or little and perform the same in races. I ride now because I enjoy it rather than following any kind of training plan but I still seem to do nearly as well as I did 20 years ago and weigh the same. The downside was that when I was training seriously I plateaued and never got any better.

Naturally slim (friends say skinny) but even when training hard never lost that last little bit to show a proper six pack.

That's really about diet - if you're doing a lot of training you'll get very fit and strong, but you'll still have a layer of fat, and this is a good thing of course. To get proper definition, if that's what you want, you need to be really strict about what you eat.

naturally fat here, always have been. i look at a bag of peanuts and i put on 2 stone. over the last 3 years, with a shed load of persistant effort i've got my weight down form being 15 1/2 (superlight) - 17st (top end) all my adult life to 12st5 (lowest) - 13.5st (as i am now) range. i like to be sub 13st, was 12.5 in late aug, but i slacked off a bit too much (stress/depression) and drank too much sept/oct as i typically do every year... caught it though this year, started my january clean up three weeks ago and feeling way better for it. really do want to kick the motivation in and go for 11 1/2, thats the goal that i've not yet managed to hit.

should perhaps say, huge thanks to advice on this forum, stw fat club and idave for the weight loss.

Too late butterball, now go and have a cry into your Battenberg.

😆

I was and still am very annoyingly naturally skinny. I have to work incredibly hard to stay around 11.5 stone. If I'm ill or whatever, I lose stones within a week or two. No joke.

See all you skinnies who say you eat a lot........ You know fleck all about eating.

As above - stay around 10'5 with a lot of hard work and supplements but will drop to under 91/2 inside of a month if I slack on eating/stress/workload.
Was 13' at one point with less than 5%!bf before a broken back and 11mths in traction saw me drop to under 8st.
Have struggled ever since to stay above 10'.

I have to work my bum off to justg stay overweight. if I relaxed I'd be into the big fat wob zone in about a week

DP

I struggle with long sentences beyond OP

I am naturally skinny [ arent we all] but I also eat very well and dont overindulge as a rule and exercise a lot.
I dont think there is any secret to how to do this re calories consumed and calories used.
I also really dislike the feeling of being full and often feel hungry but dont eat - you tend to eat crap when you feel lie this rather than some proper food and I cannot be bothered cooking.

I am sure I could get fat if I wanted to and anyone fat could get thin if they wanted to

How easy it would be for each group who knows

A lot of thin people say "I eat loads", and are wrong.

A lot of fat people say "I don't eat much", and are also wrong.

Mostly your brain is kinda programmed to set you up as thin, medium, or fat. If you want to change body shape or weight, you'll be fighting your appetite all the way, in either direction.

The physics of diet & weight are remarkably simple. The only difficult bit is fighting your instinctive eating patterns.

Was very skinny as a kid, and hated it. Still on the thin side even though I eat loads and like a drink now and then. Do a physical job so no spare fat 😉 6'1" and around 12 1/2 stone.

Naturally skinny. Cycling possibly makes me too skinny though.

Bread/biscuits/cheese/meat/booze are not on my eating radar which helps.

I'd rather be dead, TBPFH

A life without cheese and wine is no life at all, feel the pity!!!!!!!!!!!

My weight is purely based on the good old calories in/calories out.

I eat crap and don't move around and I put weight on (heaviest 15.5st), I eat cautiously and move around and I lose weight (recently went from 13.5st to 11.5st in 3 months). I eat sensibly including the odd bit of what I fancy, am active at work and go to the gym at weekends and my weight stays the same (6' 11.5st).

Mrs STR says I look skinny with clothes on, verging on too skinny and look great/buff nekkid. I am lean at the moment - around 10% body fat, with some reasonable muscle definition (not too bulky), but I think the skinny look comes from my bone structure - I have quite small wrists/ankles/shins etc.

[i]I'm 6ft and about 12 stone and I STRUGGLE to keep my weight UP.[/i]

This for me. 6'2" and 12st. And I find that when out MTBing I can't get enough food in me, so always need a cafe visit along with numerous snacks/gels.

Always been like it, my Gran use to always feed me as she thought I was underfed 🙂 Probably where I got my cake/pastry addiction from.

Oh, and the wife loves how I can eat anything, seemingly without impact - NOT!

I was and still am very annoyingly naturally skinny. I have to work incredibly hard to stay around 11.5 stone. If I'm ill or whatever, I lose stones within a week or two. No joke

No you don't. You must be eating far less than you think. I bet you're dieting all over the place and just in denial about it. Eat up, you lanky git.

We're all the same, it's just calories in vs calories out isn't it? You're not special. Eat more move less, it's so simple. Skinny idiot.

(See, annoying isn't it?)

I'm not massively skinny but I'm the weight I am (5'11" - 12.5 stone) because I exercise a lot. It's a choice you make.

If I stop exercising I put on weight. When I broke my knee I put on almost two stone in three months

I have a thin frame but fat does congregate round my midline a bit. My BMI is fine though and I do loads of exercise and watch my diet and portion size.
Funnily enough the more I watch my diet and the more exercise I do, the skinnier I am. The more sedentary my life, the more flab...

At 39 and with a desk/email based job which requires me NOT to move all day, I'm having to watch diet like a hawk to keep myself skinny. But if that's what it takes then fine by me...

i'm naturally skinny.

(6'2"ish, 12stone)

10-15 hours of exercise per week really doesn't help, i'm eating myself out of house and home!

Skinny.I eat a LOT but not junk food. Lots of biking, climbing etc and a physical job seems to burn it off pretty fast.

This thread is doing nothing to reinforce the STW image of a bunch of fatties

Wow this thread turned into a self promotional willy wagging session didn't it. "Yeah lads, i'm 6ft, 11st, pretty much perfect for blasting my road races haha. I eat shit loads of cake but my 12 packs pretty good right now. My body fat is around 4% right now, so not up to my usual level but pretty decent haha". Guaranteed 5/10 people who say this are actually 5ft 8 and 15st.

verging on too skinny and look great/buff nekkid. I am lean at the moment - around 10% body fat, with some reasonable muscle definition (not too bulky)

Wow this thread turned into a self promotional willy wagging session didn't it. "Yeah lads, i'm 6ft, 11st, pretty much perfect for blasting my road races haha. I eat shit loads of cake but my 12 packs pretty good right now. My body fat is around 4% right now, so not up to my usual level but pretty decent haha". Guaranteed 5/10 people who say this are actually 5ft 8 and 15st.

😀

FWIW

6'2" 12 stone, body fat is probably a few % higher than it should be (I guess its into double figures now)

Will lose half a stone for the start of the next sportive season.

Sod off nukeproof. Bellend

To be honest, I'm as lean as - I find the cardio a chore (half hour) and relish the weights (an hour).

Fair cop 🙂 🙄

5'7", 12 stone and happy. 😆

Oh - and what Piemonster said about bread, cheese, meat, wine etc. I love my food, me. Nom, nom, nom.

I'm on the slim side 5,7 58kg but soon put weight on if I stop riding and carry on my useal level of gluttony

A forced layoff 3 months Ment a drastic reduction in food and no drink to keep from
Getting to much weight on

It's funny the way different groups have different perceptions of body type. I used to climb with a pretty well known climber who was about 6 ft, 12st and was regarded as a proper fatty.

45, 5'10 and 11 stone. Have been as heavy as 11 1/2. I don't eat huge amounts to be honest, but come from a family of skinny people, and have a very small frame. Riding 100+ miles a week helps, of course. I'd like to drop half a stone as it might help with racing, but I know that my wife and mother will both tell me I look ill!

Climbing is very much power to weight
Or some power to very little weight
A slight hijack but finding clothing is a real pain
If your skinny and have big legs

Never thought of myself as skinny, to unhealthy a regard for beer for that, but have always worked to keep a certain weight equilibrium which I've allowed the threshold of which to increase with recent ageing.
My 'fighting weight' was 63 kgs @ 5.7, but these days its 67 to 72 @ 5.6 depending on how much exercise I put in, which right now aint much, this wet weather has reduced my ride distance.