Studies tend to conflict with anecdotal evidence here. Generally speaking it is found that (barring thyroid dysfunction), metabolism is pegged to body mass and gender. Bigger, heavier people (fatter people count as well) have higher metabolisms than skinnier (lean or fatty) people. When skinny people say that "I eat all the time and never put on a pound" what's interesting but not surprising is that it's been proven that they still eat significantly less than much fatter people. They tend to eat when they stop being hungry while fatties and upcoming fatties eat until they are full.
Really all you need to do to find your metabolism is to type your gender, height, body weight, and general fatness into a chart on the internet somewhere and it should be pretty accurate to within about 200 calories a day I would guess.
Short version - fatties don't have a slow metabolism.
Really all you need to do to find your metabolism is to type your gender, height, body weight, and general fatness into a chart on the internet somewhere and it should be pretty accurate to within about 200 calories a day I would guess.
Short version - fatties don't have a slow metabolism.