No. It’s being taught from a young age good eating habits and having a keen awareness of your body signals. Very rarely are people truly naturally skinny and can eat all they want and never gain weight.
Skinny people listen to their bodies.
I had a really tiny friend, 5’0 and 95 pounds. She never dieted, just naturally skinny. That’s what I thought.
But one day I slept over at her house and in the morning we had oatmeal. We each made a single serving pack. She commented on how much it was. She couldn’t even finish a single serving. She stopped eating when she felt full which was half of it. Then she composted the other half.
That’s when I realized that ‘naturally skinny’, doesn’t really exist. To be tiny, you eat tiny. Skinny people just eat small without realizing it. You could say it’s skinny habits.
And if they eat a lot and stuff themselves, they almost naturally make up for it. Like if they eat way too much hanging out with friends, when they go home, they will barely eat for a day cuz they just aren’t hungry.
——— more examples from observing skinny friends at sleepovers or hangouts———
- friend only ate half her bowl of noodles and composted other half, didn’t even think twice. Then only ate a handful of popcorn while we watched movies.
- friend had a large meal and felt totally stuffed. Did not eat a single other thing for the rest of the night, or the next morning.
- a friend ate dinner before coming to a party and was full, he only ate a single sliver of cake at the party. Even though there was chips, fruit, candy.. etc. He didn’t even think about more food cuz he was already full.
- got boba with friend and took her so long to finish. She wasn’t trying to savor it or anything, she just eats slow.
- a friend picked and talked so much while eating. She was barely focusing on her food. She ate all the good parts and left a picked through mess on her plate and threw it away. She probably only ate a little more than half