Do skinny people get their bodies from work outs or diet or from mental and emotional health?

[jennifer_bloom]

I know a few skinny people that eat like pigs, but they expend a lot of mental and emotional energy in life and at work. I also know skinny people who do crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy difficult work outs to maintain their body. One eats 4 times more food then me but will go on 8 hour uphill hikes when she has spare time. She is skinnier then a model. I know another skinny guy who does 2.5 hours of weight training every day even though he is computer tech CEO who makes more money than a doctor and maybe more than a surgeon too.

[FunkyMonkee]

Well, let me put it to you this way. I was always as skinny as a pipe cleaner and I was also always very active! I'd come home from school, jump on my bike and ride 4 to 7 miles away from my house to the local record stores or even up to my cousin's house and then ride another 4 to 7 miles back. This happened several times a week. Once we got the pool in the back yard, I'd spend a great deal of my summer days in the pool. If the pool was closed, I'd spend a load of time outside playing with my friends or up in my room playing drums. Once I joined a band, I'd spend a few nights a week at rehearsal for a few hours and at gigs, we'd play 4 hours or better. In later years, we'd get the gear to the venue, I'd set up my drums backstage until it was time for us to go on then spend the next 3 hours shooting pool, then we'd play the gig for 2 or 3 hours, then pack up, take the gear to my singer's house and I'd walk home from there about 8 to 10 miles. I also had 8 newspaper routes at the same time and every night, I would do the local 3 in my neighborhood and, on Wed., I'd have to walk 3 miles to deliver the weekly paper in that area and I'd walk a route that'd take me about another 4 or 5 miles. Eventually, I got a girlfriend that had sex with me several times a week and then a job in a print shop where I busted ass every day of the week. Over the next 10 years, I lost my girlfriend, my job, my bike, the pool got filled in, the band broke up (and then my singer died) and I ended up doing not much of anything, anymore! I went from my standard 185 lbs. to 365!! I've been able to drop about 30 lbs. since then but am still mostly just sitting around doing next to nothing!! I fucking hate it!! But, where I am, now, I'm stuck not being able to go anywhere or do much of anything! Maybe, if I can my damn drums up here, I'll get SOMETHING done!!

[Lynx122]

It depends on the person. I used to be able to do what I wanted but now I'm 33 and I have to be more careful. I'm 90 kilos and I don't wanna gain more weight than that.

[RedHotSallyJo]

I think it's their metabolism. My car gets incredibly good gas mileage. If it was a human, it would be fat as a hippo.

(Mine isn't a Woody, but I wish it was)

[sportyfitkate]

both. Im a personal trainer an i see both.

[AnusNdaPainus]

Say it with me “GENETICS”

my brothers are very slim and have always had an athletic build but they couldn’t build muscle anywhere near as fast as I can

I was a chubby kid I had a wider back , bigger chest and thighs

it took him 5 years to develop gains that took me a year

[Jazzy54]

Sometimes it’s genetics. Perhaps all the women in her family are thin.

[iheartwomen]

i am very under weight and it’s probably due to fast metabolism, but i see my depression and anxiety playing a part too