• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Sometimes it works the other way. We cannot get our teenage daughter to eat anything but junk food half the time and yet she’s far thinner than either of us were as teenagers. Neither of us can understand it.

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      9 months ago

      You can be thin eating any type of food. It’s generally just far easier to over-consume junk food, but if she’s not eating too much it won’t inherently lead to weight gain

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      9 months ago

      Could be something she does is burning energy and you haven’t figured out what.

      I used to wonder why I never gained weight despite eating twice what other people did…I never thought to factor in being extremely active because it was normal for me. I didn’t think brutal martial arts classes or 5k runs counted as being ‘active’. I thought it was normal.

      Granted I wasn’t underweight and didn’t need to gain but I really wanted to look like Zarya from Overwatch