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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sucks. It's definitely genetic. But i don't think it's the weight that's genetic so much as the way our bodies respond to the modern diet. Naturally thin people don't have the same addiction-like response to processed and carb-rich foods. They can eat a couple of slices of pizza and feel full, whereas some of us make ourselves stop after a few slices but then spend the next hour haunted by the leftover slices we put away, until we binge and finish the rest of the pie.

After a lifetime of being like this -- of being someone who was always thinking about food, and never felt truly satiated -- I tried a whole-foods, ketogenic (<20g carbs daily) diet, and it worked like magic. Yes, i missed bread and sugar and fruit, but suddenly I could feel full for HOURS. (And yes, I also dropped a ton of weight while not counting calories at all.)

After I got back on the carb train and gained some weight, I tried Mounjaro. It basically has the same effect as a very low carb diet, with the perk that you can eat carbs without developing a bottomless craving for them. But it also has some drawbacks that a keto diet doesn't: I often felt mildly nauseated, and when i did eat, i didn't enjoy food very much.

If you haven't tried either approach, OP, I recommend you try one of them. [/quote]

I think it’s complicated.  It’s frustrating to be a fat person eating like a skinny person, sitting with a skinny person eating like a fat person. I (the fat person) was never the stereotypical fat person, eating pies and candy bars at all hours.  I rarely ate more than a slice or two of pizza (and I make my own — thin crust, not a lot of cheese, about 150 calories per slice), and I never went back and ate more of that pizza.  Meanwhile, my friends would be scarfing down cheeseburgers and fries, drinking sugary drinks, etc. and never gain an ounce.  I think that’s where the genetics comes in.  I see it in my kids, too.  My oldest never ate that much (and certainly never like a stereotypical teenager), but was always heavy; my youngest eats multiple servings of everything, to include a lot of junk, and he’s skinny. [/quote]

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