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That being said, I do agree on the notion of genetic predisposition playing a factor but not the only factor in obesity.

It comes down to eating too much and then parking your fatness onto a couch instead of taking your dog for a walk.

I don’t jog. I don’t hit the gym or even exercise by those standards. but I walk my dog, and I try to take the stairs instead of elevators (mostly because elevators freak me out and I’ve gotten stuck in them).

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If the genetically thin women eat more calories than they burn, then yes…they will gain weight. There is no getting away from that simple formula. That is just the way the human body works.

Those genetically thin women are people like my niece, for example. Sure, she’s tall and thin. But she also “forgets” to eat when she is busy. Or she might have a high calorie meal that would make people think she eats a ton. But what they don’t realize is that it is probably her only meal that day. And that she is always on the go, burning up those calories. She doesn’t sit around every night eating chips and ice cream watching TV. If she did, she’d gain weight, as would any other “genetically thin” woman.

Genetics do play a role with our weight, no question. Some people have faster or slower metabolisms than others. But you clearly think that genetics has a much larger role in determining our body sizes than it actually does. There is just no getting away from the fact that, even with a genetic predisposition to heaviness, if one eats a low-calorie, low-fat diet and gets moderate exercise, they WILL lose weight.

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I stand by what I stated; nothing in my post was factually incorrect. Having a genetic predisposition to being overweight may make it more difficult to maintain a healthy weight, but that doesn’t negate the simple formula that one must burn more calories than one consumes in order to lose weight. However, I have heard lots of doctors complain that their patients come to them looking for a magic pill or something to help them lose weight but won’t put in the effort it takes to exercise a little or to cut back their caloric intake. They complain about obese people who doctor-shop until they find one that will prescribe a motorized scooter so they can stop walking the little that they do. Then these same patients come back and complain-as though it were the fault of their doctor-that they “can’t” lose weight, when in reality it isn’t that they can’t, it is that they won’t.

I’m not saying it is easy or that I am not sympathetic; God knows I have struggled with weight issues myself. I’m just saying that genetics might be a factor that makes it a little more difficult to keep weight to within a normal range; but regardless, the formula simply doesn’t change, no matter how much we wish it would. You must burn more calories than you take in to lose weight. There is just no way around that, period.

Oh, and a thyroid problem is not the same thing as having the obesity gene.

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Some women, for example, feel more vulnerable at a thinner weight and so keep gaining the weight back.

Without examining those issues she’s always going to gain it back.

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I am getting sick and tired of the double standard how Hollywood has between overweight actresses differently than overweight actors.

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