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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This Genetic Mutation Makes People Feel Full — All the Time
Two new studies confirm that weight control is often the result of genetics, not willpower.
The study subjects had been thin all their lives, and not because they had unusual metabolisms. They just did not care much about food.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/health/genetics-weight-obesity.html

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I would be anything that I have one of the mutations this tracks. I have been following this thread with interest, because many of the kids involved sound like more extreme versions of myself. I love food, but just can't eat that much of it at once and, somewhat paradoxically, start to feel nauseous if my stomach is empty for too long. I was super skinny/officially failure to thrive as a toddler/referred to a specialist by my pediatrician re: a possible ED as a tween (which the specialist ruled out). My mother says she never heard me say I was hungry until I was 6 after a long car trip (I get super motion sick, so my parents never fed me before a drive) and she nearly cried. Anyway, what eventually worked for me -- somewhat ironically -- was just constant grazing. I say somewhat ironically, because many doctors were convinced my snacking was why  I wasn't hungry at meal time and told my parents to cut out snacks to get me to focus on meals; it totally backfired weight-wise, because my meal size remained the same and I lost the snack calories. Around age 12 a specialist suggested to my parents that they just let me snack/eat however I wanted for a month, but coupled w/ readily available snacks, treating snacks as meals from a nutritional perspective (so snacks were not junk food but just small servings of dinner foods, etc), and offering snacks; my weight shot up 5 lbs in 2 months (a big deal at the time and the difference between looking healthy or not), my caloric intake increased steadily and I felt nauseous less often. Having spent a childhood short, I ended up at 5'6" (slightly above height projections based on my parents) and am now have a totally normal BMI without thinking about it (19). 20 years after that doctor's intervention, I still graze constantly and only sit down to one "meal" a day (and only then for family/social reasons)... but routinely consume roughly 2000 calories/day.[/quote]

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