Just have a careful look around you at your nearest and dearest. Are your family fat, by any chance? Are your grandparents, parents and children all rather rotund? Maybe your spouse and his/her family have also been targeted by the curse of the fat fairy. Well there's a good reason for your predicament, it's because of your genes. You can't lose weight because by nature you were meant to be fat. It's OK to be fat, don't fight it!
Right. As if. If you are fat, it is because you eat too much for the amount of physical effort you make. You consume much more energy than you need - that is the whole truth of it. Blaming your genes is a handy excuse if your whole family is fat, but it really will not get you trim and fit and feeling good about yourself to throw your plump little fists in the air and exclaim to the world that it's all Auntie Maud's fault that you have a huge bum.
You have to think about what you want - what you really want enough to work hard for. If you want to whinge and moan about the unfairness of your scientifically proven fat genes, speaking with your mouth full as you tip the contents of the fridge down your gullet - again - what the hell are you trying to prove?
You either can't stand being fat and are prepared to do some hard work to fix your problem or you hate being fat and are going to complain about it till the crack of doom. Your family fat destiny has not a lot to do with your genes. Your family fat destiny has everything to do with habits picked up over a lifetime. Fat families are people who have made habits of poor food choices and little or no exercise. This behavior is condoned by all members of the group, so that being fat and unfit is "normal".
You have to break out from your inherited eating habits if you want to achieve a fit and healthy lifestyle through a weight control diet and regular exercise program. It will be very hard for you to change not only the habits of your lifetime, but the habits ingrained in your podgy pores by the family that surrounds you. But you have to make this effort if you are going to achieve the results you crave.
Be warned (take the word of someone who knows); you will find that not every one of your nearest and dearest will be thrilled to bits by your newfound zest to
live life as fully and well as you can. You may be lucky to find even one weight loss supporter among them. They may (no, they WILL) make disparaging remarks about exercise, salad, slim people ... anything really that challenges their roly poly comfort zone. Honestly, just do yourself the biggest favor of your life - look after yourself. Have the passion and commitment you need to make wonderful changes in your body shape and in your fitness. You are not obliged to follow the wide path that has been laid down for you to tread with flapping calves and thundering thighs.
You may even find that eventually your weight loss and fitness will inspire members of your cuddly clan to make their own life changing decision to lose weight, but don't push it - everyone is on their own journey and will make their own decisions. Just inspire by example, rather than be a fat loss evangelist. You don't want any doors slammed in your face. But you do need to deny your family destiny. Fight your fat genes. You will win, but only if you really truly want to.
Author: Rosie Peters
Right. As if. If you are fat, it is because you eat too much for the amount of physical effort you make. You consume much more energy than you need - that is the whole truth of it. Blaming your genes is a handy excuse if your whole family is fat, but it really will not get you trim and fit and feeling good about yourself to throw your plump little fists in the air and exclaim to the world that it's all Auntie Maud's fault that you have a huge bum.
You have to think about what you want - what you really want enough to work hard for. If you want to whinge and moan about the unfairness of your scientifically proven fat genes, speaking with your mouth full as you tip the contents of the fridge down your gullet - again - what the hell are you trying to prove?
You either can't stand being fat and are prepared to do some hard work to fix your problem or you hate being fat and are going to complain about it till the crack of doom. Your family fat destiny has not a lot to do with your genes. Your family fat destiny has everything to do with habits picked up over a lifetime. Fat families are people who have made habits of poor food choices and little or no exercise. This behavior is condoned by all members of the group, so that being fat and unfit is "normal".
You have to break out from your inherited eating habits if you want to achieve a fit and healthy lifestyle through a weight control diet and regular exercise program. It will be very hard for you to change not only the habits of your lifetime, but the habits ingrained in your podgy pores by the family that surrounds you. But you have to make this effort if you are going to achieve the results you crave.
Be warned (take the word of someone who knows); you will find that not every one of your nearest and dearest will be thrilled to bits by your newfound zest to
live life as fully and well as you can. You may be lucky to find even one weight loss supporter among them. They may (no, they WILL) make disparaging remarks about exercise, salad, slim people ... anything really that challenges their roly poly comfort zone. Honestly, just do yourself the biggest favor of your life - look after yourself. Have the passion and commitment you need to make wonderful changes in your body shape and in your fitness. You are not obliged to follow the wide path that has been laid down for you to tread with flapping calves and thundering thighs.
You may even find that eventually your weight loss and fitness will inspire members of your cuddly clan to make their own life changing decision to lose weight, but don't push it - everyone is on their own journey and will make their own decisions. Just inspire by example, rather than be a fat loss evangelist. You don't want any doors slammed in your face. But you do need to deny your family destiny. Fight your fat genes. You will win, but only if you really truly want to.
Author: Rosie Peters
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