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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I don't think it's so much genetic as it is learned behaviour.
Both my parents came from poor households where food was scarce.
Once they both got middle class jobs, we started eating out more. A&W on Wednesday, KFC on Friday, and Burger King and Dairy Queen on the weekends.
Not to mention half-moons, caramel cakes and chips on the counters at home.
Both my parents who were skinny in high school quickly became overweight and my brother and I picked up the bad eating habits.
So often when you see a family of overweight people, I don't think "bad genes", I think "parents with bad nutritional habits".
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Base metabolism is an odd thing. I mentioned in another thread about losing weight. I'm trying to get down to 163. I'm at 165. And have been stuck at 165 for a month now. Despite getting up at 4am to do 1hr on the exercise bike and 1hr in the pool each day. That's burning 1,000 calories in exercise each morning. I'm eating about 2,000 calories. I'm thinking that maybe when I was burning fat, I was also burning lean tissue and have destroyed my metabolism? I can't figure out why otherwise I would not be able to lose those last 2 pounds.
Maybe it's the last 12 months of eating 1,500 calories per day and the body adjusted the metabolism to the lower calorie count?
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I don't know how tall you are, or if you have other health issues, but 165 for a man is not unhealthy.
Do you really think sacrificing 2 hours per day is worth trying to drop 2 pounds?
I on the other hand could fast for 30 minutes and drop a couple of pounds. That's where the metabolism comes in.
EDIT: I am assuming you are a man
