13 Things You Never Knew About Your Weight

Eat right, exercise...die anyway.

A waist is a terrible thing to mind! So eat what you want, eat as much as you want, because all of the dieting, is not going to matter at the end of the MAYAN Calenader anyway,LOL

I just lost 145 lbs. ,,,, divorced her

So all Ethiopians are genetically skinny? O_o

Nice try fatties.

I'm as guilty as any of this (and I've got the gut to prove it), but we are expecting too much (and getting it) for our dollar. Nothing against ANY of the food or restaurants I might mention, they are just examples. However:

Fast food is too easy and too much. A Big Mac: three pieces of white bread, two hamburger patties (with some questionable fillers), two pieces of not real cheese, a fat-based sauce. Supersize it with the fries and large sugary drink and you will soon look like me.

Do you really need to eat at the super buffet? Personally, I can't eat $10 worth of anything at one time anymore, but it's all there and it's hard not to keep going back. Five Guys burgers (which I considered marginal at best and overpriced) gives you a large hamburger and then a whole brown bag of fries (about the equivalent of four medium potatoes). I don't want to waste food, so I sit there and eat it all, covered in sugary ketchup and washed down with several glasses of sweet tea.

We expect that anymore. It took me years to realize what I was doing to myself...and allowing them to do to me. It's okay on occasion, but I've been doing it every day for years. I am working on losing the weight now (and the older you get the harder it is to lose it). I'd like to look good in my clothes once more in my life...and I'd like to get rid of the blood pressure medicine.

It's not rocket science. I was an active kid. I played soccer, lacrosse, baseball and I wrestled. I ate what I wanted and gained minimal weight through college.

Then, as I got older and started working more, I became a lot less active and surprise, surprise, I started to gain weight.

I changed my diet, started exercising and I'm at a healthy weight again.

STOP eating out so much and cook your own food. Count calories. Drink water. Once you get into the routine of doing this, it's very easy to maintain this lifestyle. It's up to you though.

Please stop blaming obesity on genetics. Fat people can and do overcome their weight problem. The last thing they need is another excuse for their lack of will power. If you exercise regularly and eat right, you will lose weight. The problem comes in to play when someone goes walking for 15 minutes and then rewards themself with an unhealthy meal. Yea, you might maintain your current weight, but you have no chance of losing the gut.

the ulimate cure... just puke.. then you can just eat whatever you want.

I used to weigh 350 pounds. For over twenty years it stayed there until I learned how to eat. There are no right answers to the wrong questions. Most think following a blueprint (i.e. your genetic code) is the only way the body must work. It is only a guideline, a suggestion if you will. Every structure can be modified and added on to, or of course, reduced. If you are out of shape and overweight ask yourself this; if Arnold himself could trade bodies with you would he have it in shape in a year? Yep. Would it have anything to do with a history of obesity in your family tree?
Nope. Worse yet what would you do to his body in that year? Frightning. I am also in my 17th year of recovery from alcoholism which in large part (pun intended) led to my conflict with gravity. Yes jamming into your face food and drink is a problem but it is a symptom, not a cause. The real problem is the thought process that leads to the actions that you ALREADY KNOW you don't want to do. Addiction of any kind is a mental issue with physical symptoms. The thought process must be changed and the only way to do that is to go to outside sources, drop your defenses (excuses) and allow those who have the proper knowledge to criticize you. Leave those behind you tell you what you want to hear and seek those who will always tell you with compassion the truth.

This antithesis to the real weight issues of this country will keep the sheep blind to the truth. Here's a good question...If you waited in a line at a McDonald's in 1985 vs 2012, will there be more obese people in the 1985 McDonald's or the 2012 McDonald's? The answer is that today, we eat heavily processed food loaded with hormones, synthetic antibiotics, grain fed, industrially farmed beef cleaned of its E. Coli with ammonia. This is what happens when 4 food companies own over 80% of the beef industry and the US Gubbmint subsidizes farmers to over-produce the foods which have 'zero' nutritional value. You shouldn't gain large amounts of weight from beef since beef is a protein...The globalist 'Zionist' elite think you slaves (me included) are not good enough to eat beef and fly on airplanes. Keep watching Dancing With The Stars my fellow Amerikans!

I faaaaarhhhted

I don't think its true. I was a chubby kid but I lost the weight when I got older. My mom and dad were slim when they were younger and still pretty small. Maybe in some families its genetic but sometimes its just overeating. :T

lol the fat gene... it resides next to the entitlement, lazy, gay, criminal, drinking, liar, and rapist genes. but when all the excuses are said and done, the fat gene still hangs out and over a real jean ...

Genetics are so true. My family is full of obese, chain smoking, alcoholics and not one of them has ever died from any heart related issues. On the other hand almost all of them have gotten cancer, but the half that survived it lived past their 90's.

I don't believe it is genetic. Both my parents and their families were slim. My sister and my children are overweight. I do believe we eat different as adults than we were as children. We were never over weight as children. We grew our own food and mostly ate that growing up and were very active as children. Now we buy our food and most of it is processed. I believe that is the difference. To many chemicals and additives in our food now. I have started going back to buying organic foods and growing my own and have seen my weight start to go down. I am also trying to become more active. They have poisoned our food chain with chemicals and things that don't belong in our bodies.

It is funny how people think they "The Answer" based on their own personal experiences. Everybody is different and what works for some may not work for others. Also the body changes as it ages. What may work for one person now may not work in 20 years.

lets face it.. FAT IS IN .. 95% the population cant be wrong... so do yourself a favor and just install a winch over the bed and keep the panic remote in your hand... you wont fear being crushed again.

Just got these genes from Walmart too. No wonder they don't fit...

I am 58 eat what I want and as much as I want and still weigh the same as when I was 30...I stay active and get 6 - 7 hours sleep... just lucky I guess

I just lost 29 lbs. the old fashioned way ...cut down on bad stuff