How can these slender gals eat so much???

[ML]

Went to all you can eat and drink buffet at a very nice resort type hotel earlier this evening.  Lot's of monied people in town for a weekend of golf and the first football game of season.

Pork loin, salmon, prime rib, lobster and shrimp were main items with hundreds of other goodies and decadent desserts.

The pork loin had an excellent orange based glazing that I need to get the recipe for.

Anyway . . . I am always amazed how these 105-125 pound slender gals can eat as much as a man weighing 60-80 pounds more than them.

[Faux Pas]

Went to all you can eat and drink buffet at a very nice resort type hotel earlier this evening.  Lot's of monied people in town for a weekend of golf and the first football game of season.

Pork loin, salmon, prime rib, lobster and shrimp were main items with hundreds of other goodies and decadent desserts.

The pork loin had an excellent orange based glazing that I need to get the recipe for.

Anyway . . . I am always amazed how these 105-125 pound slender gals can eat as much as a man weighing 60-80 pounds more than them.

My wife has a number of friends from the former Eastern bloc in our little hometown. Those friends go from Russia, Ukrainian, Uzbeck, Georgia. Some are MOB, some are not but a common thread is, they are all very attractive Eastern bloc females. Some are married to AM and some married to men from their country.

Most Friday evenings they like to meet up at a local casino for the seafood buffet which also includes much red meat and other buffet fare. The buffet is above average as far as casino buffets go. It's actually quite good with a specialty (hold your breath) crab legs.

I have seen these gals pile in so much food at this ritual weekly buffet that would make most 300 lbs man blush. It's a constant running joke between the wife and I. I've been a number of times but, will decline if I can get out of it. My wife even eats too much when she goes but, not even close to what some of these other ladies do. I have no idea where they put it much less how they get it in but, they could feed whole orphanages with what they leave with in their bellies. 6-8 of them stay slender and trim. I have no idea how they do it unless its a surge and purge kind'a thing.

I'll do a plate sometimes maybe go back for something I particularily liked  and be done. These ladies do 5 times that much minimum. I stay both disgusted and amused. I can't explain how they defy nature

[Anotherkiwi]

Went to all you can eat and drink buffet at a very nice resort type hotel earlier this evening.  Lot's of monied people in town for a weekend of golf and the first football game of season.

Pork loin, salmon, prime rib, lobster and shrimp were main items with hundreds of other goodies and decadent desserts.

The pork loin had an excellent orange based glazing that I need to get the recipe for.

Anyway . . . I am always amazed how these 105-125 pound slender gals can eat as much as a man weighing 60-80 pounds more than them.

Second that motion!  I've mentioned before that a RW friend who lives in Poland visited me a couple of years ago.  I took her touring around, and was absolutely gobsmacked by the amount of food she could put away  .  She's average height, average build, and weighs maybe 60 or 65 kg, and she ate quantities that would put a 120 kg manual labourer to shame.
 
At the end of her time here she had the nerve to complain that I never fed her enough, and did I want her to waste away to a shadow?  She was only half-joking!

[Ade]

Tapeworms....

[Jumper]

Tapeworms....

the other, OTHER ,diet...

[Lily]

I have no idea where they put it much less how they get it in but, they could feed whole orphanages with what they leave with in their bellies. 6-8 of them stay slender and trim. I have no idea how they do it unless its a surge and purge kind'a thing.

I'll do a plate sometimes maybe go back for something I particularily liked  and be done. These ladies do 5 times that much minimum. I stay both disgusted and amused. I can't explain how they defy nature

My best educated guess would be that they are just not meant to increase in size. Some kind of good genes that American people are definitely missing. They are slim because they are meant to be slim, irrespectively of how much they eat.
 
Other than that, they probably don't eat like this every day. Usually, people in Russia, women especially, don't eat a lot, and allow just a few days for a real belly feast like the ones that you described. This may not make you fat easily.
 
To my observations, Russian women mostly gain weight after pregnancies, births or at their menopause. I mean, the weight would be mostly explained by some hormonal changes rather than by just their nutritional habits.
 
Also I don't know any RW who would ever practice this surge and purge thing.It appears to rather be the Western thing.

[CanadaMan]

Anyway . . . I am always amazed how these 105-125 pound slender gals can eat as much as a man weighing 60-80 pounds more than them.

Did you actually watch them consume all of the food that was on their plates?

I went on a date a few years back to an all-you-can-eat buffet. Great tasting food.
My date carried in a rather large handbag with her.

Although I didn't see her actually put the food in her bag, it became pretty obvious what she was doing after a few plates (she came back to the table while I was still at the buffet tables).

There is no way on earth that she could have consumed the platefuls she was carrying back to the table in just a minute or two!

[ML]

My best educated guess would be that they are just not meant to increase in size. Some kind of good genes that American people are definitely missing. They are slim because they are meant to be slim, irrespectively of how much they eat.
 
Other than that, they probably don't eat like this every day. Usually, people in Russia, women especially, don't eat a lot, and allow just a few days for a real belly feast like the ones that you described. This may not make you fat easily.
 
To my observations, Russian women mostly gain weight after pregnancies, births or at their menopause. I mean, the weight would be mostly explained by some hormonal changes rather than by just their nutritional habits.
 
Also I don't know any RW who would ever practice this surge and purge thing.It appears to rather be the Western thing.

Lily, my comment was not about gaining weight or not gaining weight.

My point was how do they even get the huge amount of food into their stomach, given their slender build.

[ML]

Did you actually watch them consume all of the food that was on their plates?

I know  what you mean as far as taking some food away  in purses, etc.

But, in my  comment, I was referring to situations when I did see them eat the entire amounts . . . equal to the same amount I ate, and my stomach was really hurting from being over stuffed.

For buffet breakfasts, one could put apples, oranges, maybe wrap up a donut or two to take out.

But for dinner buffets, it's pretty hard to carry this stuff out; unless you come armed with your Tupper-Ware plastic containers with lid.

[Fashionista]

Hint (something I've just learned  ):
Don't own a car, walk everywhere, including to buy groceries, climb the stairs of the apartment building because the elevator is broke, do it every day, and I can guarantee you, you can eat all you want and lose weight at the same time. 
 
Ouch, just saw that

My point was how do they even get the huge amount of food into their stomach, given their slender build.

perhaps because man came from monkeys and woman came from snakes?

[Anotherkiwi]

Hint (something I've just learned  ):
Don't own a car, walk everywhere, including to buy groceries, climb the stairs of the apartment building because the elevator is broke, do it every day, and I can guarantee you, you can eat all you want and lose weight at the same time. 

I'm guessing that this doesn't always apply to the lovely RW in Canada? 

[Fashionista]

I'm guessing that this doesn't always apply to the lovely RW in Canada? 

Nah, gotta ration that food *sigh*... Weight Watchers anyone? 

[BillyB]

My wife's favorite place to eat is a Korean barbecue buffet. We get to have fun and cook the food ourselves at the table but although it's a buffet, wife limits her intake. She'll never eat till her tummy is going to burst.

[viking]

My wife is not skinny, but definitely slender. Whenever we go out to eat she is always telling me the portions are too large. She can never finish a meal. Thank goodness for doggie bags.

[CanadaMan]

My wife is not skinny, but definitely slender. Whenever we go out to eat she is always telling me the portions are too large. She can never finish a meal. Thank goodness for doggie bags.

Whenever I go to the U.S. I marvel at how large the meal portions are at restaurants.
They are about 1.5 to 2 times the size as in Canada.
Most people I see in the U.S. are also 1.5 to 2 times the size as Canadians.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? 

[die_cast]

Anyway . . . I am always amazed how these 105-125 pound slender gals can eat as much as a man weighing 60-80 pounds more than them.

They are witches, no doubts. 

[Shadow]

To be honest, I am not surprised at all.
Mainly because until I turned 40-ish I actually had the same.
Bein 6"1 (186cm) I have always been under weight from my youth. In general I would once a year make a 'jump' in weight, and be stable regardless of my diet.
Until 40, I could not cross the 75Kg barrier. If I ate less or more had no influence.
Wit hage, it changed a bit and I am now around 90-95 kg, having to watch my weight a bit more. But considering my height, nothing to be alarmed about.

ShadowJr 2.0 has my build and can eat as much as he want without looking anything but thin. It is not only the women who can have this.

[mendeleyev]

For some reason my wife can turn the hunger switch on and off at will. When she is busy and rushed on a project she wouldn't eat for days unless I insisted. Other times she has a normal appetite. She can "decide to drop" a few kilograms and do it, where I have to work at it.

But there does come a time when it catches up to them--my MIL and several close Aunts serve as Exhibit A+.

Now that Krispy Kreme donuts has opened their first in Moscow and with 40 contracted over the next 5 years...