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I'm curious to know how many of us (I raise my own hand here) apparently have genes which do know this.
I've never paid much attention to diet beyond "eat what I want when I want", or exercise beyond "do what I feel like doing" (this does not mean "eat sugar all day and laze around", but it doesn't resemble Tim Ferriss' regime either), yet my weight has been around 120-130 pounds for all of my adult life.
Probably not appropriate to ask, but how tall are you? 130 pounds is very light I would imagine if you are a man.
It's hardly a private attribute! I am 5' 7". And male, as my name suggests.
Fairly normal it would seem from a BMI(doesn't account for body composition) context.
My daughter seems to. Her mother and older sister are both stick figures (the middle sister takes a little more after her father, who was plumpish), and she tends not to eat all of any given meal and never has. (Though on Saturday she ate chocolate until she threw up, and thereby learnt an important lesson about gorging oneself on chocolate ... maybe.)
Ferriss also has a suggested plan for skinny guys who want to bulk up, FWIW.
I prefer to address function and let form follow.
I've been following that regimen lately and am 5'10"/5'11" and 130 pounds. I am 19 years old though, there are probably a lot of people my age who manage the same trick. I've noticed there seem to be a lot more >6'1" skinny guys than <6'1". I'm not sure if that's just 'cuz better general genetic fitness, specializing in attractiveness, the mechanics of anatomy, halo effect, not-necessarily-genetic racial differences, and/or many other possible factors.
Like me! I'm a year younger, but our height/weight stats are incredibly similar (I think you're a bit taller).