All metabolisms are pretty similar after all.

There aren't large differences in metabolic rates.

Sorry to break it to those of you who feel they are just victims of circumstance and no level of working out and eating right will help them.

People try diet after diet with absolute failure. There is a striking pattern of how this occurs, it is always the same actually. The first couple of weeks are water weight loss but people seem to think they are losing body fat. After this the weight loss slows down immensely and sometimes even stops altogether. They believe because of this that there are people with far faster metabolisms and can eat and not exercise with no penalty.

Unfortunately the truth is, nobody loses weight that much faster for absolutely no reason. The reason a person is overweight or obese is due to lifestyle.


The reason I can state this without question is because there has been a lot of research recently regarding this. Most of which revolve around something called the doubly-labeled water technique and a calorimeter.

Doubly-labeled water is a heavy isotope of water which subjects drink, and only weeks later, measurements of the amount of isotope remaining in the body provides an extremely accurate measure of the body’s calorie burn over the previous weeks.

The calorimeter is a full sized lab which facilitates the precise measurement of nutritional intake and calorie burn. Using both techniques, weight loss studies have changed drastically and research was completely undone regarding metabolic studies.

This research is backed by over 100 years of study and yet it is constantly in question because many do not do their own due-diligence.


Here are two sample studies:
 One comes from the USDA and the other from the New England Journal of Medicine in December, 1992.

The USDA found that scientists had recorded the caloric metabolism of over 100 subjects from the department calorimeter. The tests “found there was no metabolic magic,” said Dr. Paul Moe, research leader in the Energy and Protein Nutrition Laboratory. “We’ve yet to see any evidence that there is any difference in people’s efficiency in the way food is metabolized.”

He said, “Sorry folks, there is no free lunch.” and that is about right. We have to understand that this is a law of humanity. You will not lose large sums of weight overnight. People get the wrong idea and fall victim to false hope time and time again. Just remember it does take a long time and in the end it is worth it, so persist with all of your might.