TL;DR: If you're not hungry, should you not eat even if you'd be under-eating calories?
Recently I've been scouring those "secret habits of naturally skinny people" threads on this subreddit, and one of the patterns that kept emerging was that naturally skinny people are just hardwired to eat exactly how much they need to maintain their weight - which, on some account, sounded like they eat very little. Food is just not a priority for some of them.
I observed this in my roommate in my first year college dorm. She was very petite, maybe around 5'2", 100-110lbs and she would continuously forget to eat. With the huge meal portions our dining halls served, she would sometimes only eat a bowl of some food for the entire day. She would not feel hungry unless she went without food for prolonged periods of time and she had a very utilitarian approach to food. She didn't appear to suffer from any eating disorder, she just wasn't hungry.
Now, another advice that keeps emerging whenever I read up on nutritional advice is to not eat below your BMR, which your body needs to sustain itself. The few times I tried that, I felt lethargic, foggy and lacked energy to exercise.
Even if skinny people had lower BMR, a lot of the skinny people diet habits described in the other threads did not sound like they're covering their BMR, and aren't even close to maintenance calories.
For example, when I would play badminton with the skinny roommate, we had to take a break every 15 minutes because she was so winded, while I could literally play for 5 hours and not feel tired.
I guess my thoughts boil down to: are some "naturally skinny people" undereating calories? Even if they're not hungry, is this sustainable (assuming they have no underlying eating disorder)? Should I force myself to at least eat at my BMR even if I'm not hungry?
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