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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thin after 40 is genetic. [/quote]

Absolutely this. Generic or starving herself. You will get responses like “I had 17 cheeseburgers today and I am 5 foot 10 and 100 pounds!” And guess what - their mothers are those old skinny women that can barely stand up on their stick legs. Genetics  or disorder after 40. 100% true. I’m not talking about normal - I’m talking about “skinny.”[/quote]

This is just not true. I don't know where you are finding these "absolute genetic facts" but they are not true for any single person I know. My grandma was as skinny as can be, so was her husband, my grandpa. My mom, their daughter is obese. Three sons, including my dad, on the other side of the family, were all relatively normal weight. Grandma was definitely a typical old European grandma, that would be called obese today, grandpa was slim.
I am slim, with an obese mom.
Nobody that is thin would ever say they eat 17 burgers. I am less than 120 lbs at 50. I am not disordered at all. People think I eat a ton, like my sister and my mom who are overweight. Because that is all they see and all they want to see! They see me having a huge pastry for breakfast and a large lunch, but lunch is usually not heavy on carbs. They never seem to notice that at night I skip potatoes and bread. Nor do they see that I skip dessert all the time. I don't drink alcohol, nor do I drink coke or Pepsi. They do, and not the zero-calorie kind.
But, to hear them speak, I am so lucky! Well, by your logic I am genetically predisposed to be thin or I have a disorder. They do not see me as being disordered at all. According to them, I eat twice as much as they do, and I am skinny.
Do you know how many times when I am visiting them, I find out the next morning that BIL went to get a pizza or Mcdonalds around 11 pm? And, well, it doesn't count it is a treat! Is it disordered not to eat Mcdonalds or pizza at 11 pm? After we all had a nice dinner at 8?[/quote]

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