How Do I Get Fat If I Don't Eat That Much (part 1) ?

The majority of people underestimate how much they eat, and it's more likely to be true the heavier a person is. "Scientists have searched for persons who barely eat yet weigh a lot," says a researcher, which tracks people who have maintained a loss of at least 35 pounds for at least a year. "What has been found instead are people who say they eat very little but turn out to eat quite a bit when one monitors their food consumption. Studies prove that it's impossible to be a really fat person and not eat much.

Fatness researchers indicate that this gap between perception and actuality is not due to conscious lying; these people really believe they're living on modest food intake. For a study published 15 years ago researchers used a sophisticated method to monitor 10 people (nine women and one man) who weighed, on average, 190 pounds, even though they claim to have eaten only about 1,000 calories per day. The results were amazing, especially to the group. It turns out they were in fact consuming about 2,000 calories a day double what they'd estimated. And though they guessed they were active enough to burn about 1,500 calories a day, they actually burned 800 only.

How could this happen? A Lady, barely more than five feet tall and 160 pounds ,tried counting calories and keeping away from fattening foods, but the weight just wouldn't come off. The catch, she realized later, was that "while there were 85 calories in the cookie I did not eat, I didn't really know how many calories there were in the orange juice I was drinking." Many other are, in fact, like herdrinking plenty of latte cups, for example, since "coffee has no calories, right?" But they never acknowledged the fact that each latte cup may have some 200 calories. Or those who said that sure, they walked 10,000 steps a day but, when truly counting (using a pedometer), noted that they merely reach 1,500.

An added reason people may feel they're starving themselves, has to do with the metabolic decline caused by dieting: The lower the body weight, the lesser the calories one needs to maintain that weight. (weight training, helps lessen this unfair truth.) For example, if one weighs 250 pounds and eats 3,000 calories a day, then one loses approximately 50 pounds. To keep that 50 pounds off, one should consume 2,300 calories a dayand it goes without saying that is very challenging to eat 700 fewer calories...

As for simply being born with a slow metabolism, that may be another collective misperception among the overweight. When tested, several of those (the earlier indicated 10 people group) who claimed to have this problem resulted in having metabolism within the normal range. But instead of being relieved to discover that there was nothing wrong with them as far as metabolism is concerned, and that they only need to better supervise their intake and output, they got angry. They said it can not be right.

It is a tough task but, saying that, one should realize that it is manageable and possible. You should just be determined to get it done - after all, it is your body, and your health.