Lards are lazy at logic, lazy at life I've heard a lot of hams quote the 95% of diets fail "statistic".  I was wondering why the special snowflake syndrome doesn't apply to this area.  If you're really so special and different shouldn't you be the outlier?    Unique and quirky metabolisms only allow weight gain on 800Kcal/day. If this applies to all hams, it is hardly unique.