[Le Chien Rouge]

How many people do you know who eat fast food daily and drink a gallon of coke a day yet they are skinny as a rail?

At the same time, there are many like myself who just look at a 7/11 big gulp and gain ten pounds.

Body weight and size are individually determined not only by eating habit choices but by genetics and metabolism.

Diet is not a one plan that works for all.

[GOP_Lady]

INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Red Badger]

I lost 25 pounds by cutting out cokes, sweet tea and sugary treats, and BREAD (loaf, rolls, bagels, muffins, etc). Cutting carbs works....................

[BigSkyFreeper]

The word is “metabolism”. Mine is so high, I can eat like a horse and it doesn’t show.

[Skenderbej]

My wife and I are perfect examples of that. We eat exactly the same things, yet she doesn’t gain a pound, and I’ve put on twenty.

[aruanan]

Body weight and size are individually determined not only by eating habit choices but by genetics and metabolism.

Fat mass is determined only by how much the energy intake is in excess of the energy expenditure. Now, you may feel more hungry or hungry more often and that may have something to do with genetics, but the gain or loss in fat mass is entirely a matter of increase or decrease of energy intake relative to energy expenditure. There is no other way short of surgery.

[RipSawyer]

Body weight and size are individually determined not only by eating habit choices but by genetics and metabolism.
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Exercise is the key, thirty months ago I went back to the weight room shortly before my sixty third birthday. I was more than sixty pounds over the maximum weight recommended for my height. After thirty months of hard lifting and cardio work I can wear all the jeans and dress slacks that were hanging in the closet for years because I was too big around the middle to wear them. I gave away two suits, a blazer and a lot of shirts because a size forty eight coat is too small for me now. What do I weigh? About five pounds MORE than when I started.