Why Are You Still Skinny Although You Eat So Much?

This is a very old question. Why are you still skinny although you eat so much? Why is your friend so fat, yet she seems to eat so little, is there some magic formula out there, that no one told you about? The answer is surprisingly simple, people do have different and very varied metabolic rates. This may be something of a mystery to you when you here the word metabolism mentioned.

The situation is, you eat like you're as hungry as a bear coming out of hibernation, yet you think of no weight-loss programs, simply because you think that you do not need one, since your body is like skin and bone all the time. In dieting, the concern of weight control is not just involving the mere issue of eating. There are individuals who wish to simply have rounder, firmer butt's, and don't always want to look like walking skeletal systems on legs.

Why do body shapes and sizes vary?

They vary because we have different metabolism or metabolic rates to be specific. Our age, sex, amount of muscle compared to fat, and the amount of exercise we do in our daily living are different and they are the determinants of metabolic rate. These things make our body shape different from each other too. It does not mean that if one looks thin, it means that she is so choosy when it comes to food. There are instances of genetic or hormonal factors affecting metabolism too. That is why it is a wonder for some when a person eats in tons but he or she stays slim.

If compared to females, males have higher metabolic rate to females because of testosterone or male hormones. As we know testosterone is responsible for all the so-called "manly matters" among the men's physiological aspect. It includes the growth of muscles. And by nature, males are born with more muscles than females. This makes them have higher metabolic rates than the females who have estrogen and progesterone as sex hormones.

As to age, adults have lower metabolic rates than infants, children and teenagers. This is because of the fact that the latter age groups have more active growth hormones in their stage of life. Actually, research show that human growth hormone is not prescribed for matured adults because they will just suffer from negative consequences. This is only prescribed for children that are not of normal growing rate.

Is there also an increase of metabolic rates for females?

Women have higher metabolic rates when they are pregnant and more when they are breastfeeding. However, this plunges down when they menopause. For them to maintain higher-than-normal metabolic rates, daily exercise would be a huge help. Doing so would increase the amount of muscles so, metabolic rate is increased too.

Is exercising in the evening better than other times of the day?

It does not matter at all. No research neither studies shows that the time of the day affects the effect of the exercise to the body. Doing it whenever you are free and comfortable is always the best idea. Doing it three to five times a week would indeed give you better results. Still bothered why your little-eater friend looks like as if she ate all the food you swallowed all these times? We hope that upon reading on you have realized the key points and hopefully do what is best for you to meet your metabolic rate needs in having the weight you have been waiting for.

Here's to improving and maintaining your own perfect metabolic rate
John

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