“Cristy, it’s not fair. My [partner/parent/sibling/friend/co-worker/relative] can eat ‘whatever they want’ and stay thin! Why do I eat whatever I want and get fat?”

I get this question every so often from frustrated clients who wish they could eat all the fat-storing food they want and not gain weight.

If that’s you, here are a few things you need to know.

First of all, human beings possess what’s called bio individuality. It means that your unique body chemistry and DNA react to certain things differently than other people’s unique body chemistry and DNA.

Which things react differently depends on your bio individuality and it certainly could, for example, account for why someone you know eats a lot of junk and doesn’t gain weight, while you DO gain weight from eating the same things in the same amounts.

Another factor is metabolism. Some people do naturally have a faster metabolism.

But the most important thing you need to understand about someone who eats a lot of junk and doesn’t get fat on the outside is that they may be fat on the inside.

There’s a phenomenon called skinny fat, where somebody may not be piling on a bunch of body fat on the outside, but they are still metabolically unhealthy, i.e. fat on the inside. There’s still fat building up around their internal organs. There’s still inflammation building up that will, if it’s not mitigated, lead to disease.

External accumulation of body fat is just ONE symptom of risk for being metabolically unwell. There are MANY others, and most of them you can’t see just by looking at someone.

Extra body fat gets all the attention, perhaps unfairly so, because we can see it.

But the health risks we can’t see, regardless of body size, are the more dangerous ones, because when we don’t see it, it’s easier to pretend it doesn’t exist, or not even realize it’s simmering under the surface, like a bomb about to go off.

Your friend, co-worker, or loved one who can supposedly “eat whatever they want and not get fat” may still be making themselves sick in ways you can’t see.

Instead of envying them, recognize that they may be more unhealthy than you–or they–realize.

Then get focused on YOUR reality and YOUR journey. Comparing yourself to someone else is a sure way to feel hopeless and give up.

Embrace your reality, whatever it is, and work WITH it, instead of sitting around wishing you had someone else’s.

The better you get at working with your reality–including when it comes to your weight and health–the sooner you get to transform.

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