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Old 06-22-2003, 07:19 PM   #1
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I was wondering and I have posted this on another board too. Do you think that a person can stay slim if their whole family is full of heavy people? I Am just wondering what you think.
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Yes, I think it's possible. I'm sure it takes a lot of willpower and strength to watch what you're eating, but I think it's very possible. I have a cousin who was heavy in high school and both parents as well as her brother & sister were heavy, but she decided she didn't want to continue and now is normal size and has been for many years.

 
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I hope it's possible!! I'm hoping to personally prove it is...several generations of my family are overweight!! ahhhh!

But, I have a good friend who has the same issue, whole family is very overweight...she went on a (not-so-healthy) diet about 4 years ago and looks good still today (and got over the borderline eating disorder that she had too which is even better).
Here's hoping!

 
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Bad news folks. My brothers and sisters were all obesed from children in grade school, through highschool, and adult life. On the other hand, I was always thin. I am a person who always worked out, still do. I am the baby of the family. The children of my brother's and sister's are obesed too.

When I turned around 44, I start picking up weight, and by the time I was 50, I was obesed too.

I knew, it was Genetics. I knew it. I work in medicine. We inherit all diseases and everything else: height, etc.

I am not as big as them, but since i was so small for so long, when people see me from my old hometown as well as my brothers and sisters they are surprised, like: How did you gain weight?

This weight came on me even though I was in the Martial Arts, working out 4 days a week, walking 3/4 miles three or four days a week. I also, play vollyball and swim. I always was a person who ate correctly: baked chicken, fish, vegetables.

Now, I eat raw nuts, fruit and vegetables, baked salmon, water. On occasion i may eat normal, but not much.

People blame you for weight gain or any other disease you get..Believe me folks, it is genetics. I have read study after study that supports this.

 
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Wow, that is so depressing, but I think it's true. All of my sisters could make 2 of me when I was a teen. I was 5 feet 7 inches and a really skinny 120 pounds. I used to try to eat extra meals to put on weight. Now that I've had children and I'm in my 30s I gain weight easily and am having a hard time getting it off. I can't believe I'm obese...just like my mother, my aunts and my sisters.
But I do think that with a lot of hard work and willpower I should be able to take it off. But my days of living on cheeseburgers, cookies and potato chips are over.
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