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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]someone posted upthread something that has been proven by the responses to this thread.  the majority of women who are thin (thinner than average) into their 40's are either

a) genetically thin - very thin kids, family is thin etc
or
b) obsessed with keeping thin - restrictive diets, obsessive exercise etc[/quote]

Nope this is patently not true.  People outside the US are thin in their 40s and older.

Americans don't have fat genes; we just eat like pigs and don't exercise.[/quote]

obviously that comment referred to American women.[/quote]

I don't know why you say this. People in the UK are quite portly. I think something like 61 % are overweight and obese. And if you head out of Paris into the country, like into Normandy, you'll see quite a number of obese people.

I am the PP from way back who comes from a thin family and who gets full easily -- I see this all the time when I compare my mother and my behavior with other women. We just eat a lot less, not because we are dieting but because too much food makes us feel stuffed and nauseated. [b]I really think there is a genetic component to this[/b]. [/quote]

Hence the post.  No one is denying that there are overweight people in other countries.[/quote]

PP. That's an interesting theory if true. I have wondered if the need to overeat which many people seem to have is a form of addiction that changes one's hunger cues over time. Like you start overeating for whatever reason and then over time your body needs more food to feel full, like developing a tolerance to a drug.[/quote]

I absolutely believe this. I have always been a normal weight but if I go on vacation, for example, where we are just eating and lots of rich and decadent foods that I would normally eat once in a while but there I'd be eating day in and day out, at first, I would get nauseated by SO MUCH FOOD. But over time, I think your body somehow adjusts and that becomes your new normal. But this is the thing that I think many overweight people don't really "get" - the same thing happens in reverse. Thus, if you are used to eating SO MUCH FOOD, but spend a few weeks or a month adjusting back down to normal portion sizes, your body/hunger cues will also adjust and you will not feel hungry. I constantly hear people accusing normal weight people of "starving themselves" and "being hungry all the time" when, in fact, you just don't need as much food to feel full in that state. I think a case can be made for this phenomenon. [/quote]

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