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I was in a project meeting before lunch, this company are always really good and in the middle of the table was a big plate of cream horns and apple turnovers.

Now sitting next to me was a tiny, waif of a girl but during the meeting she managed to eat 5 pastries and after the meeting was finished she grabed another 2 on the way out. How do people eat like that and keep her figure. Totally beyond me...

Col used to work with a guy who must have had the metabolism of a shrew. He was thin as a rail and just stuffed it away. Every day he brought in a whole loaf of bread made into sandwiches -- this was just to keep him going until lunchtime. Whenever he had some time with nothing to do, he'd go to sleep.

Then again, there's the other extreme. We used to help out at a newspaper booth that faced a corner shop across a wide pavement (not across the road, mind, just across the pavement). One of our regulars went into the shop, bought a handful of Mars bars and half a dozen packets of crisps. She was rather on the large side, to put it extremely tactfully. By the time she was out the door of the shop, she'd eaten a Mars bar. By the time she'd crossed the pavement and got to the booth, she was halfway through a packet of crisps. Then she said, "I don't know why I can't lose weight! I'm sure it must be my glands." By the time she'd paid for the paper and gone round the corner, she'd finished those crisps and was well into another packet.

A friend of mine can't put on weight. She naturally has little appetite and sometimes has to remember to eat. The way to complement her is actually to say she's put on weight.

Wouldn't like to take her out to Dinner!

I used to be like that until I got an office job. I've now had to radically change more caloric intake as I discovered that all my pairs of trousers had shrunk around the waist band. Before I used to be able to eat as much as I wanted all the time- now I can only eat as much as I want SOME of the time.

Tomo wrote:A friend of mine can't put on weight. She naturally has little appetite and sometimes has to remember to eat. The way to complement her is actually to say she's put on weight.

I'm like that... I even tried doing a 3000 calorie diet just to see if I could gain some mass. I gained weight, but it wasn't visible whatsoever.

My mom sometimes says "Jongen, je hebt een lekkere dikke kop gekregen"/"Son, you've really gotten a nice chubby face", while in reality my cheeks just looked a bit more satisfied.

I'm glad (and perhaps very lucky) that I really don't have to think about weight and such, can't imagine what it would be like.

I'm the opposite. When I pull an all-nighter I lose a fair bit of gut, but looking at food makes me pile it on again. I do wish they'd make a low fat middle age spread

I am lucky to look healthy and I eat pretty much anything I want.

For those of you that curse our high metabolisms realize that we have far greater pain sensitivity typically.

My doctor often hands me pain killers to dull the sudden and often extremely painful random cramps I get.

does fat always have to mean unhealthy?

It's a funny thing. even on 500 - 900 calories a day (that's 10 apples) , I still don't lose weight.

That's just made me hungry ...

I take it the meeting was extremely boring as you managed to count the cakes she ate

People who can eat what they want and not put on weight make me very jealous. I once had a dream about an apple turnover with whipped cream inside, and when I woke up I found I had put on a stone overnight.

Replicant wrote:People who can eat what they want and not put on weight make me very jealous. I once had a dream about an apple turnover with whipped cream inside, and when I woke up I found I had put on a stone overnight.

Now that is a lovely bit of pastry.

I can actually feel my waist expanding as I type this. My leather belt is audibly creaking with the strain.

Replicant wrote:I can actually feel my waist expanding as I type this. My leather belt is audibly creaking with the strain.

It depresses me that all I have in the office at the moment are a couple of old biscuits. I might have to have a root around in the fridge to see if someone has left a cake there and forgotten about it.

How long is it until lunchtime?

those cakes are making me hungry, I've got a Greek salad for lunch, which is lovely but a nice cream cake would be nicer.