Metabolism Question

[ChunkDiesel]

Do you get your metabolism traits from your mother, father, or both?

[Failure]

Yes.

[gbrice75]

Yes.

lol great answer!

OP, what do you think?

[ChunkDiesel]

I'm think that you get them from your father, because my mother regularly eats frozen pizzas or 3 boxes of bagel bites right before bed and she is very thin. I, on the other hand, look at the pizza she is about to eat and gain weight. My father was thin at the beginning of his military career but then began to gain later in life, probably from inactivity. I was just wondering with proper eating can I get my metabolic rate to mimic my mothers or will I always be doomed?

[gbrice75]

You get it from both, like almost anything else. I don't think you're doomed. I'm cursed with a very slow metabolism as well, but I believe that over time we can most definitely speed it up.

Frequent meals, high protein, moderate carbs, low-moderate fat diet, lots of cardio (key), and you will start it burning.

[ChunkDiesel]

Frequent meals, high protein, moderate carbs, low-moderate fat diet, lots of cardio (key), and you will start it burning.

Thats' pretty much exactly what I am doing. I've been doing cardio all along, but I have been super focused on my diet this week. I dropped 4lbs between today and yesterday, not so sure how to feel about that.