About a year ago I attended a dinner with some girls I went to school with many years ago. Most of them had now kids and some extra pounds on their bodies.
We asked each other how things were and also how siblings and parents were doing nowadays. One girl told us that she and her sister looked completely different from each other, even though they always looked very similar during childhood. Her sister was thin while she was pretty big herself.
“She’s got the thin gene”, the girl said.
I laughed a little since I assumed she was joking. Nobody else laughed though, and another girl claimed she too had a sister with a thin gene. This girl was also big.
I thought, perhaps they’re right; what do I know about thin genes… but I couldn’t help being a bit suspicious.
We ate big loads of cakes and cookies. I said “So, your sisters can eat like this without putting on weight? They are soooo lucky”.
Slowly, it was admitted that these thin sisters actually ate very healthy and also exercised regularly. I managed to bit my tongue holding me from saying something sarcastically.
Oh my god; do people seriously believe that all thin and well-trained human beings with perfect posture just were born like that? Okay, they might have been born that way, but they have to maintain it for Christ sake.
There are lazy people lying on the couch, smoking, and still look thin, but I promise you they eat way less than a big person.
And there are people who exercise a lot and still are big, but I promise you they eat a little bit more than they have to.
Isn’t it time to wake up and take responsibility?
Maybe you are big simply because you eat too much and move too little.
Many blame it on pregnancy. Sure, the hormones change and you go nuts and crave weird stuff. It happens more seldom though, if you eat healthy to start with. Do you have to eat for two? Not for two grown-ups anyway. The fetus becomes at the most around 6 kilos. I think people use the pregnancy as an excuse to heave food.
When you’ve become big, it’s hard to lose weight again. Or is it? Perhaps you need a little push and start moving more than you ever had to do before. And maybe you have to think more about what you eat than you ever had to before. But it is possible.
Everyone can become healthier, reach normal weight and obtain a good posture, but you have to start somewhere. And above all else; stop blaming it on that “fat gene”.
