Maya2001
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And weight (whether heavy or light) is genetics. .
nope.. your weight is about how much food you put into your mouth and how many calories you burn from that food.
The reasons that you over eat, the relationship you have with food, the attitude you have about your body may well be something that is nurtured in you... but as an intelligent self controlling adult ... your weight has nothing to do with your DNA. Scientists may well prove beyond doubt there is a gene that supresses the signal to your brain that you are full, but as an adult you can make the decision to be logical, you have eaten a meal, it was sufficient to fill you, deal with the hunger pangs.. lose the weight
Until you can control and take responsibility for your relationship with food... you will always have a battle with your weight ..
I am over weight because I have a relationship with food that produces a negative outcome...its comforting to eat, I grew up in family where the social focus was feeding times, feeding people is demonstrating love ..more food...more love. I eat when I am lonely, bored, frightened or upset. Now I realise this... I can stand in front of the fridge and make the decision...am I actually hungry.. or is my mind craving something that can be temporarily replaced with the feeling of a full stomach. Understanding that about myself, and accepting it,and learning to deal with it, has been one of the single most freeing things that has happened to me in my adult life.
Not necessarily , as in the case of hypothyroidism , one can eat less and gain weight
Another issue can be what you are eating which can cause mal absorption problems
I had one dog that I ended up cutting his caloric intake to less tha half reducing protein and fat, and he was still gaining weight, I ran a thyroid panel on him as a result, which was not the problem so I finally tried another tactic, his diet was mostly carbs so instead switched him to high protein and fat and cut the carbs way down which boosted him to 3 times the calories even more than he was originally getting before putting him on diet food and cutting the quantity that was when he start slimmimg down and I was taken him 1 or 2 times to the vet for weigh ins just to be sure that he was not going to gain rapidly instead another issue that was learned was that he had hyper spleenism after several test to ensure it was not cancer his spleen was growing and had become about 3 times the normal size and the way it was sitting was causing his tummy to look very bloated plus was causing added weight so had to be factored in for deciding what his weight should be estimating that the spleen was 6 to 8 lbs more due to increase in size.
So here is 3 examples of weight not being related to caloric intake which can affect humans also
< Message edited by Maya2001 -- 4/5/2008 1:05:02 AM >
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