Just wondered if anyone else watched this programme on Monday evening, we watched it last night on IPlayer and found it interesting. It shed a little light on why some people seem to eat whatever they like and not gain weight, but others quickly lay down extra fat and find weight hard to shift. I found it interesting that some people actually have an increase in their basal metabolic rate if they eat more than their body needs so the extra calories are got rid of without much weight gain. Also fascinating that our bodies have naturally different 'ideal weights' that they try to keep us to, it seems our genetics for various reasons (including maybe some influences in the womb) have to a degree programmed us to be our own natural sizes.  There was lots of food for thought (excuse the bad pun).

I did watch it too. It kind of told me what i already knew but explained it scientifically and with experiments. I think i may be one of those people whos metabollic rate increases as i find it quite easy to lose weight (must touch wood now!) and i fidget quite a lot which they said helps to lose extra calories even when you are sat doing nothing or not exercising. Very interesting programme

I saw it.  Fat people like me always knew life is not fair when it comes to managing weight!  I sure hope that the way I am now is NOT where my body thinks it should be forever :-(

Edited to say while I am fat my husband is thin and always has been.   He eats only to live.  Does not enjoy food.  Does not like to go to restaurants.  Cannot even stand the sight of someone eating.  Doctor has ordered him to gain some weight.  And so now I am cooking him all sorts of heavy meals and buying calorie-dense snacks.  Talk about torture!

My mom is really skinny (I mean really skinny - around 100lbs).  She has always been thin, and seemed to be able to eat what she liked (come to find out she was eating food she shouldnt have been when she was diagnosed with Celiac).  Even eating a gluten free diet, she is still thin.  (And now complains about the "bump" on her tummy!!!  ARG)

My twin, she is thin as well.  Lucky girl!

Me, I am what they call "average".  But I am bigger than I want to be.  Loved it when I lost weight rapidly with the Graves Disease (Hyperthyroid).  I lost so much weight!  But since I got that under control, I have been steadily gaining, and now find it hard to loose weight. 

The thing is, my mom and my sister wish they could be like me.  They comment on my body, saying they wish they had my curves.  LOL

So I guess you are never really happy with your weight, big or small (unless you were one way and worked so hard to become the other way). 

Missed programm but been told all about it...

OH lovely and slim, both kids lovely and slim,we all eat the same and all regular exercise, me a constant fight to stay at a 16
It is in the genes (or the jeans if the seams hold) ;-)

Cairnmania - no chance that your husband is Coeliac is there?  I didn't enjoy a lot of foods (the ones I shouldn't have been eating) before I was diagnosed.  I would fancy the lovely looking cream cakes but when I ate them I really felt that they tasted rubbish - nothing like I remembered them.  I couldn't put on weight - however I haven't always been coeliac - when I went to college there were chips with every meal in the canteen (in my family we only had them a couple of times a year as a treat) and I went up to size 16 (marks sizes which means a 14 by todays clothes).  

No, my husband is not Coeliac.   He is chronically ill now with COPD which is making his weight problem worse because he burns a lot of energy just trying to breath.

However, he has been very slim all his life.   Until COPD he was always very active too.   And very hyper - the kind of person where they just seem to be full of energy; every movement he makes (even now) is done at superspeed. 

So with him it has been a combination of not really liking food and a generic predispotion not to put on weight.

When I used to eat three big regular meals a day I was extremely skinny, so skinny that a works nurse asked me if I was anorexic.  When my eating habits changed in my late 20's and didn't have time for the three regular meals that is when my weight started piling on!  Now in my mid-late 30's I am 5 stone heavier than I was 10 years ago!

Some if it's genes but I still believe that a lot of it is what you eat, how often you eat etc.