Fighting Fats With Facts So as Christmas approaches I'm undoubtedly going to have to be around my extended ham-family, and this means the usual barrage of "Oh you're so skinny, must be great to have your metabolism. I WISH I could eat what you eat and look like that" etc. In reality I'm sure they of course eat 3x that of me or any other human, but they're convinced that metabolism can cause these dramatic 200lb differences despite identical diet and exercise. I'd love to shut these hams down and stuff their lies right back up their snouts, but I need hard facts to back it up. Does anyone have some stats I can throw in their chubby faces if they bring up this bogus argument this year? Like what's the biggest possible difference metabolism can make in two individuals of the same body composition, caloric intake and activity level? I'm sure it can't amount to more than a couple pounds but I'm not one to run my mouth without the facts (unlike my butter huffer relatives). I'm sure others here are going to be in the same gravy boat tomorrow. Thanks all.