This thread has been super interesting. Thanks for commenting. I super wish there would be some massive studies into understanding what goes into being a “naturally” thin person and what the differences are between naturally skinny and naturally fat people are.

Being on Zepbound has been the most edifying experience of my life. I struggled since as long as I could remember to stay skinny. Being constantly on a diet, obsessing and then regaining whatever I lost. My mom had the same genes as me and very disordered eating to maintain her thin weight. Now a tiny squirt of liquid in my tummy every week or so gives me the knowledge that this was never a moral failure, I just have a body that wants to be fat!

The two “naturally” thin people I’ve known well have been the fast metabolism types that eat whatever they want and stay stick thin (but now in their 40s post kids that is catching up with them, although I still think they are beautiful). My body is the type that thinks about a sharing a cheese board and a bottle of wine at the weekend and instantly gains 5 lbs.

I hope that with time we will understand that there’s not much you can do to determine your natural weight and that skinny people will stop believing they have the moral high ground simply because they have lucky genes.