Why Some People Never Get Fat
My wife and I went out for dinner for our anniversary at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Before the meal, they serve up a big bowl of very tasty corn chips and home made salsa. This is followed by a meal rich in fat, starch, oil, and many calories. But we don’t eat like this everyday, so why not!
We then drove to a nearby lake-walk area and took in some sights (on foot) and rode in one of the horse-carriage rides. We must have spent about 3 hours walking around, and I would bet we walked several miles if not more on the very nice lake-walk, enough to even burn up much of the calories of that super-duper meal. And it was on the lake walk that I noticed something:
Nearly every one of the people that we walked by was very trim and fit! There were older people and very young people, and people of different races, but almost all were trim.
So what does that say? People that make a point of getting in some regular exercise, even when on vacation (and there were a lot of vacationers here) will stay trim. They will never get fat!
I observed something else this night as well: Right before going home my wife wanted a small ice-cream cone (she did not eat nearly as much as I at dinner) so we stopped at a local Dairy Queen. As I looked around, what did I see? Fat people. Really fat people. Of course not all were fat, but there were a fair number.
My conclusion: If your lifestyle (including your vacation) incorporates regular exercise and physical activity, then you are very unlikely to get fat. Conversely, if your lifestyle has frequent periods of eating very fattening foods (like on vacations and holidays) in the absence of physical activity, then you will put on the pounds.
It is all about lifestyle.