Why thin people don't get fat Programme

I have just watched a programme on BBC (UK TV for you people living in the US) It apparently says that people has genes which determine how heavy the person is and whats is the ideal body for the person. Thus if you want to lose weight, you can do it temporarily but eventually you will gain the weight back because the body will regulate the system and bring your weight to your ''natural'' body weight.....sooo if you want to loose weight, does this mean that you will never succeed?

Furthermore....the programme also said that there is a VIRUS, which is quite common, causes flu, diahharia but it makes you gain weight! thus if you catch the virus, you wil ultimately gained weight inevitably!! this is sooo scarry!!! what to do what to do!!??! i am soo disturbed by having heard this statement!

what do you all think?

by the way you can watch it on bbc player if you have not watched it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hbsk2 /Horizon_Why_Are_Thin_People_Not_Fat/

by the way this is the link

If it's in my genes then I must be adopted, because no one else in my family has a weight problem.  My Dad, Mum and brother, both sets of Grandparents have never been over weight.  I was thin up until the last 3-4 yrs where I ate too much.  That's why I'm over weight.

Sadly enough only people in the UK are alowed to watch it (it won't open the viewer if you are outside of the UK). Too bad, wanted to watch it.

I never heard of that virus, but there are indeed several researches to be found on the internet, seems that "30% of the people that are obese had the virus versus 5% of the non obese" If I were you I would not freak out over it, just eat healthy and work out, don't get discouraged!!!!

This programme is really interesting, sadly that you can't watch it in the state!

haha thats so funny i mean SERIOUSLY!?? ok say eating the foods that are good for you the healthy wholegrains fruits, veggies, etc. that our grandparents use to eat kept them healthy slim(maybe not a size 00)but they still were a quater size to what most of the weight of many people are nowadays. what im trying to say it that of course you can diet then return to your weight before you were dieting if you have the eating habit of BK, Mc D's, etc. you will gain it back because that is what was making you gain weight in the first place...but rather you should be losing weight and going on a permenant lifestyle change not diet make homemade baked goods and meals (you know exactly whats in them) there is a substitute to everything these days so use the healthier version instead of the unhealthy version like for instance replace applesauce with butter when baking a cake? and so what if you cant have takeout food 5 days a week anymore make your own pizza with pita bread or tortilla or if you like burgers make your own lean meat hamburgers (you can make them jumbo size and still you will feel fuller for longer without the guilt of all the calories its half the calories to a Big Mac but yet double its size!!)

overall good health + good eating = weight loss for anyone and if you keep it up you will keep it permenant.

i dont believe that there is a ideal weight that your genes determine you are i believe that if we sit on our asses all day everyday and eat mc donalds all the time then we go on a diet and expect to get thin because were on a so called diet for a while then straight after succeeding we return to the rubbish that made us fat in the first place while we still expect to stay slim cos we were on a diet for a while then were living in a dream my friend! its all about permenant lifestyle change.

I don't see much merit in the research on the virus, but I do know that if I don't watch my weight, I defintely do have a natural weight that I stay at. If I don't exercise or diet at all, I stay at the same weight and only deviate a few pounds +/-

I have no doubt that researchers will eventually come up with the definitive word on weight gain, loss and maintainance...........and this could sure be it.

But I am lucky to say I know two things for sure:

1- If I overeat and don't exercise I gain weight, or occasionally stay the same.

2- If I eat healthy  and exercise I lose weight or stay the same.

When this starts changing I will start worrying about the "obscure" reason for my weight gain.  2 and 2 are still making 4 for me!

i watched the program too and near the end it said best way to loose weight is slowly so your body can adapt or something.

i think the program ment if you crash diet youll always gain the weight since they made skinny people crash eat for 3 weeks and they all got back to there orignal weight quickly after the 3 weeks

Original Post by janjumratsangp01:

Furthermore....the programme also said that there is a VIRUS, which is quite common, causes flu, diahharia but it makes you gain weight! thus if you catch the virus, you wil ultimately gained weight inevitably!!

Wow, a virus that makes you gain weight? Maybe we should start spreading it to countries where kids are starving to death! Think about all the lives we'd save!

I read about a certain gene that makes people fatter. Researchers found that people with the gene were an average of 5lbs heavier than those without it. Heavier, sure, but hardly enough to make them obese.

to floggingsully, i suppose if they don't have any fat to store in the first place, your solution to malnutrition wouldn't work anyway.... but it is certainly a good suggestion!

well...if this virus does truely exist and does have the effect on people as they say in the programme, then i shouldn't go arounds fat people? this will only make think people scare or discriminates fat people even more then! (eventhough in the programme says there is no worry...) but still!

It's called the set point theory.

I personally think there is some truth, judging from experience, but it's still possible to get to a lower/higher wieght by changing diet/activity levels ... might be a bit harder. Regaurdless, anybody who even tries to say that the set point theory is what accounts for the obesity statistics needs to stfu.