For years I have been battling online with the "skinny minis" over diet. They contend that losing weight is easy because all you do is reduce your calories and exercise more. Well, I knew this was wrong and now science has proven it.
You see, the "skinny minis" are the ones with "spendthrift metabolisms" who can chug down foods that some folks would get fat just looking at. Some of us have "thrifty metabolisms" which theoretically developed during times of famine where we could survive on less food than the rest of the population. When a person with a "thrifty metabolism" reduces food intake the metabolism just slows down and decides "okay I can work with that." So there is no weight loss even with exercise. I've known this for years but to get it across to boneheads has been quite a challenge. Here's an article on a recently released study about this: http://time.com/3856890/excercise-fitness-weight-loss-gain-obesity-research/
