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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why posters are so invested in the idea that there’s no genetic component.

I’m 52, 5’3”, 110. Don’t exercise at all (yes, I know that’s bad) and don’t restrict what I eat. My weight stays consistent no matter what, just like my mom’s did and her mom before her.

But someone will now chime in to say that I clearly do something virtuous that overweight people don’t, because fat shaming is so important to them. [/quote]

I wouldn’t go that far, and I’m not fat shaming anybody, but my experience with people like you is the genetic component is that you eat less food than others because you get full faster. Ultimately (at least a major component) of weight is a math problem - if you eat more calories than your metabolism burns, you gain, and if you burn more than you eat, you lose.

I am your height and weighed around 130 most of my adult life. I thought that was where my body was happy. A few years ago, I started actively counting calories and the weight fell off. I’m now around your weight and maintain it because I have trained myself to eat smaller portions (don’t restrict any foods).

But my friends who are naturally this way just baseline can eat less than I can. I have a lifelong friend who is not genetically thin (both parents are overweight) but ever since we were kids, she gets full eating 1/3 of what I do.

My point is that sometimes the “genetics” of thinness are really related to your feeling of satiety/how quickly you get full, which leads you to eat less. That can also be learned for people who are motivated, though.[/quote]

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