Black people have that -feature- , a genetic disposition to putting on weight, and it means they have fat to burn when exercising.. and they have the calories in to fuel their exercise. They make great athletes partly thanks to that.
Alot of men -wish- they were the fat type. It's fuel for the gym. Fuel that not everybody obtains so easily. For them, being "thin" would be a negative thing. You are looking at being fat type as being a negative thing, listing health problems causing it, and saying some of the sages had the problem. But I wouldn't say it is necessarily a bad thing. Your implication is that being "thin", is not negative. You're a guy, I can tell, largely because your name is Shlomo. So you should know of -a- mentality specific to men that like working out, where being fat is fuel for the gym, and being thin is not.
Im so confused by everything you are saying. When I was younger I was extremely thin... (6'4" and 175 lb)... and I could workout forever. I could run 3 miles in UNDER 15 minutes(second fastest time in school history). I could run the 400 meter in 50 seconds, and easily dunk, with a 36 inch vertical leap. (I had a higher vert leap when I wasnt doing endurance training). I could NEVER get fat, no matter what I ate because of my high metabolism.
Now, 19 years later, I'm over 210 lbs, and have a hard time walking up a flight of stairs. I am an embarrassment in the gym. I look more like a sitcom Dad than an athlete. I would love to get back to at least 190. I aint proud of my fat.... to me its a sign of my own sloth.
At 6'4 175lb you would not have been carrying much muscle.. the muscle mass advantage over others would have been in your long limbs, which is from your 6'4 aspect.
Maybe you were good as a runner.. but not as a weightlifter. (certainly not compared to others your height).
175lb is not very big for 6'4. You hadn't built that much muscle.
If you had looked to build muscle, you'd have needed more calories.
Now though, you have an excess of calories..
Be lazier about eating, and you'll eat less. Eating isn't such an exciting thing.
For your 6'4 175lb self to gain weight or as you said, get fat, would have required alot more work. You figured it was impossible..
Alot of thin people also have trouble getting up the stairs..
I wouldn't get embarrassed over it.
I've had times when a set of stairs have almost killed me.. I've been to a gym and worked out on an exercise bike for 2 minutes.. taken a 5 minute break. come back.. I guess it drew attention to myself.. as it would if I did pullups with somebody on my back. There's always somebody doing something and people look. You don't have to embarrass yourself going red in the face. If you are 6'4 and you walk into a gym, that will attract attention, it doesn't mean people think what you think they do.
I once went to a gym with a rather large friend.. this black guy on the weights machine took one look at us and said that I should go and eat at his(my friend's) house for a month!
In this day and age, many -guys- want to build muscle, and with that goal, it's very important to get lots of calories in. That takes lots of work daily.. The muscle building exercises themselves aren't that time consuming. If you are large.. And in BMI terms you are actually the right side of healthy plus one point.. you are just touching overweight. In terms of calory intake that would be an exciting opportunity for many people wanting to build muscle.
