On 7 Oct 2003 14:18:06 GMT, Ignoramus20526
wrote:

-In article , Mr F Le Mur wrote:
- On 7 Oct 2003 13:53:10 GMT, Ignoramus20526

- wrote:
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- -Are you a Korean? I had a Korean girlfriend a very long time ago and
- -she told me that there are no fat Koreans.
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- ha! No, I'm not Korean, pretty much standard N. European;
- none of my relatives ever got fat either, that I know of.
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-I have always been curious about slim people who eat all they want
-etc. Myself, I am at normal weight, but I need to watch what I eat
-like a hawk to not regain weight. It is not that difficult, but it
-takes some effort. I do not eat junk food, sugar etc.
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-What would be your typical day's eating? Can you elaborate a little?
-You make no effort to stay slim at all? It is just natural?

No effort at all. I've tried to do the opposite, by stuffing my
face whenever I could stand it, when I wanted to gain weight; I
gained weight, but it was all muscle, since that was about 30
years ago when I was lifting weights - striations and veins and
that kinda ****. When I was working out I looked like a middle-
weight boxer you might see on TV (and was one, too, though pretty
half-assedly - definitely not on TV), but now I look kinda like
a freshman college basketball player. Not too bad for 50,
I'll wager.
FWIW, at different periods I might eat anything from three big
meals a day to one big meal every other day, plus cookies or
some such. It's seems like the more I eat the more I want to
eat. I'm hungry right now and would eat a big, greasy bacon
'n' eggs breakfast with extra bacon* and plenty of toast with
butter and sugary jelly if someone put it in front of me, but
otherwise I'm too lazy to mess with it - it's easier to be
hungry. I know a couple of other people like this and they
seem to be dark-haired with British ancestors. Plus, like
you said, a lot of Oriental people don't seem to get fat.

My free advice to people concerned about getting fat is to
quit thinking that it's terrible to feel hungry, and probably
also quit "couting calories" and other things that turn food
into something symbolic or an intermittent reward; like
instead of thinking about what you're supposed to eat and when
and how much, think about staying hungry as long as you can.
Then when you've been hungry long enough, eat whatever you
feel like eating. Dunno if that's all bull**** or not, but
it's what I do by default.

*I just talked myself into heading over to the
Breafast King!