you add more muscle you can eat more

the basic thing is, your engine capacity is lower, so burns fuel at lower rate

by adding muscle, you add engine capacity, thus can burn more fuel = you can eat more

plus, adding muscles is good for you

Indeed those are probable causes. However , those mentioned in the article is among individuals who suffers from conditions . I believe there isn't such a thing as digestion problems in a NORMAL HEALTHY individual who is able to consume anything yet remain skinny .

Basically, skinny people that consumed a lot yet remained skinny is very widely known to have high metabolism.

Now, what drives metabolism higher? Izzit the higher muscle mass = high metabolism?

Let's make it clear first. This skinny people that I talking about are sedentary people.
Their body have not gone through the stress needed, that the body don't need to absorb 100% of what they consumed.

Lets say they eat a lot of rice, that's alot of carbs. But how much exactly the carbs are being stored in the muscles? Or izzit just limited amount and the rest is waste.

In order for them to absorb the nutrition more effectively, they need to put stress on their body. By stress means, tearing the muscle, increase the heart rate for longer durations and such. Their body will go into shock, and will seek the nutritions to replenish (that's when their muscle sore for days.)
If they keep this up for several week, size gain is definitely gonna be obvious.
But it all comes back to what they eat. If it's high % carbs or fats, they gonna see little to no size. If it's high % protein, the muscle fibres will be repaired, increasing either the number or size of sarcoplasma.

On the other hand, skinny people that are not sedentary, widely depends on what they do and eat. If marathoners, their energy output is without a doubt gonna burn a lot of muscle fibres away. If it's the common weightlifters, is either they bodytype (genetic), or they didnt eat enough to gain.

I used to be quite underweight according to the BMi scale and I know quite abit about the medical sciences, I think there's only a hint of truth in that statement.

While it's possible that there is an underlying problem in digestion (not enough enzymes for the breakdown of specific food types maybe), these sort of malabsorption problems tend to present themselves with other symptoms as well e.g. fatigue and lethargy and other symptoms associated with malnutrition (getting infections alot etc.).

However, most of these "proud" people who say they can eat a lot *usually* have very different definitions of what *alot* means. I always thought I was skinny because I had a higher metabolism than my bigger sized peers. Maybe one or two meals I have with them I notice that I eat the same portion as they do and yet I'm half their weight and I jump to this conclusion: However, when I started living with people bigger than me, I noticed that they consistently had much larger meals than I had.

So tl'dr, if you're perfectly healthy but skinny, chances are that you're probably not really eating as much as you think you are.


I was 54kg at 179cm after NS so my friends thought something was terribly wrong with me. Now I'm 72kg at the same height with roughly the same body fat % as I did before, and I have the LYN forums to thank for alot of my progress haha.

(Disclaimer: If you are really sure that you're eating plenty yet not gaining weight, there's no harm that can come by paying a visit to the GP. Also, a dietitian might be of great help here)

Good day, I hope this is the right place to ask.

I started weight lifting 3 years ago to lose weight, able to sleep better and helping out my family with heavy cores without trouble.

However my neighborhood gym is closed for whole Ramadhan, well not close entirely I believe and I assume they open after breaking fast.

However if they only open at night, I could not go cause dinner with family. My only free time is after 5 p.m. which is after work. Thus the only exercise I can do now is jogging.

Will I lose all of my strength if I do cardio (jogging) until after Hari Raya ?

thank you.

Definitely not all. You can do simple body weight exercise at home to maintain the muscle mass

Spot reduction doesn't work.

for muscles to be seen you will need to lose fat.....

to lose fat, you will need to work out...and have calorie deficit.

your body doesn't just lose fat from 1 area

Your question is not related to this myth thread.

ANyways, if you are asking this basic question, it shows you dont have the basic knowledge of BB and your goals set.

To answer:- dont!

Everybody has 6 pack, the question is are we able to see them

hi, is it true that running at night (up to individual limit) before sleep is not good for health?

is calorie computation (intake and usage) is really that straightforward? losing 1kg weight for every 7700 deficit of calories.

is it really dangerous to take really low calories (let say 700-1000cl) per day while use about 2500-3000cl on the same day? I've been doing it for the last couple of days. It wont be for long, I plan to practice it for 1-2 weeks if possible. Is it doable?

1. Running before bed time - Not bad at all. I guess running while you're asleep is more dangerous. Haha!
2. Calorie computation - Would be quite tedious as you would need to manually track your food intake. 1 gram carb = 4 calories, 1 gram fat = 9 calories. All approximates. Now, do your math.
3. Taking low calories - This is not bad if you're working into losing weight. Are you?

3. yes, short term target. Not much left to be remove from my body. Just another 3kg from my trunk. haha. but I suffer a lot from food teasing. lol

2. Yes very easy. Calories deficit = lose weight, calories surplus = gain weight. I just lost 3kg eating McD and outside food. Never cook at home.

3. Yes. If you don't reverse diet after having a deficit in your calories intake, you are gonna mess up your body and conlan97firm regret.

I have 6 packs abs and NO, I have not done planks or crunches.

My opinion:-

Exercise at night - depends on individual. If you feel bad because you cannot sleep, then don't do it. Nothing beats a good sleep. Not even a good productive workout.

Calorie computation - it is straight forward. But it is not straight forward in execution because everyone's body build differently, every food build differently. You just need to look for ways and food that shows you results.

Low calorie intake - It is possible. I was a fat guy eating I don't know how much calorie, as in alot of calories, but when I change my way (the wrong way) I ate only 900kcal a day, running 30 - 40 min a day, every day. So my nett calorie intake might be only 700 a day. I loose weight/ fats. I did that for 9 weeks, loosing 19kg. The complication will be, I have low energy level, low mood, high stress, lethargic, crashed my metabolisme. So do it the right way. Don't do it like me. But I glad that I did. At least I started somewhere.

Makes no difference when you drink your shake unless you're prepping for the stage, which I assumed you're not.

Just a question, people always say that we must sleep 8 hours a day. Does it have to be continuously?

Would like to know..

everyday i can properly sleep at 12am at midnight..
and have to wakeup 5.30am for work..

average sleep 4-5 hours per day...

Believe it or not, different people require different amount of sleep. The general recommendation is 8 hours as it covers most of the population, the same reason why it's recommended to drink 8 glasses of water. I don't think it's been shown precisely why we even need sleep. We know what happens during sleep (brain activity spike, GH released, muscle repaired, etc) but what we do not know is why the body has to be asleep to do all that.

So, with a grain of salt, my advice would be to sleep however much you personally need.