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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet we can't. We really can't. I've done every diet known to man and the weight always comes back.

You eat whatever you want and the weight never increases.

It's genes. Just like being left-handed. [/quote]

I used to be very overweight and I’m thin now. I know this feeling—that thin people have it easy and don’t know what it’s like. That’s a false generalization. Many thin people are very careful about what they eat and exercise a lot. [/quote]

Unless you have maintained a significant weight loss for more than 5-7 years, you have no idea what you are talking about. If you have maintained for that amount of time absent bariatric surgery, congratulations for being an extreme statistical anomaly.[/quote]

Np to this thread, and have maintained my weightloss (naturally, no surgery) for almost 6 years. I'm not a genetic anomaly. It's hard work - to cook and prep more meals, and to exercise most days of the week. Changing habits is hard, but once you do, you don't know how you lived any differently.

I have sympathy for fat/obese people, but it's absurd to blame it on genes, or to pretend someone "looks great" or beautiful being obese. "Health at every size" is also an impossibility - human bodies were simply not designed to carry so much excess weight on bones, joints, ligaments, etc. I don't care what your blood pressure is right now - being obese automatically makes your body unhealthy.

Of course that does not mean that skinny people are automatically healthy - being fit with good muscle mass is a much better qualifier. Skinny but weak isn't a great end of the spectrum, either.

All of us have choices - doesn't make them easy, but it helps no one by lying to oneself and blaming it on genes. [/quote]

It actually does help to "blame it on genes" since so much of it is tied to genes

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/health/americans-obesity-willpower-genetics-study.html

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