Thursday, April 26, 2007
Eating Like a Horse
There are some things that I think I will never understand. There is a guy I know who eats and eats and eats with no end in sight. He gets really high calorie, high fat breakfasts every morning. He eats huge lunches with dessert. I don't know what he has for dinner, but I also see him snacking in between all of these meals. So the strange thing is not that he eats so much. God knows that I can understand that. The strange thing is that he is one of the thinnest people I know! I understand that there are metabolism differences between people, but this is just crazy.
Here's where I start thinking too much. I see people like that, and then I see other people with extremely slow metabolisms who just stack on the weight (myself for instance). Then I start thinking about these differences in an evolutionary sense. Back in the cave man days when food was scarce, it would have been way better to have a slow metabolism. That way you could eat a small amount and be fine for a while. People with fast metabolisms would have to keep going hunting for wooly mammoths and stuff. So you would think that those with really fast metabolisms would have died out a long time ago from hunger or wooly mammoth bites while the rest of us would be ruling the world. Now, the tables have turned. It is no longer good to have a slow metabolism. Whatever the case is now, I am just going to continue to tell myself that I am at a high evolutionary level because of my slow metabolism...and those with fast metabolisms must just be freaks of nature. It sounds good to me...but somehow it doesn't make me feel any better about it.
Here's where I start thinking too much. I see people like that, and then I see other people with extremely slow metabolisms who just stack on the weight (myself for instance). Then I start thinking about these differences in an evolutionary sense. Back in the cave man days when food was scarce, it would have been way better to have a slow metabolism. That way you could eat a small amount and be fine for a while. People with fast metabolisms would have to keep going hunting for wooly mammoths and stuff. So you would think that those with really fast metabolisms would have died out a long time ago from hunger or wooly mammoth bites while the rest of us would be ruling the world. Now, the tables have turned. It is no longer good to have a slow metabolism. Whatever the case is now, I am just going to continue to tell myself that I am at a high evolutionary level because of my slow metabolism...and those with fast metabolisms must just be freaks of nature. It sounds good to me...but somehow it doesn't make me feel any better about it.
