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I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is thin
and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)

I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".

Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines who
can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner better
half.

Just a thought.
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Bear-
Grrrrrrrrrrrr :eek:)
353/284/210
 
Wrong.

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"Bear" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is thin
> and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
>
> I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
>
> Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
> eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
> obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines
> who
> can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner
> better
> half.
>
> Just a thought.
> --
> Bear-
> Grrrrrrrrrrrr :eek:)
> 353/284/210
>
>
>
 
"Bear" <[email protected]> writes:
> Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat?


Actually, there's been a lot of research into the "thrifty gene",
which changes the balance between "tendency to store energy" and
"tendency to burn energy".
 
In article <[email protected]>,
"Bear" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is thin
> and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
>
> I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
>
> Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
> eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
> obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines who
> can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner better
> half.
>
> Just a thought.


I think genetics plays a role, sure. Some people really do have to work
harder to be thin than others, and some people put on muscle mass easier
than others. Not everyone who is thin has to work at it, so it's not just
about self control. Maybe they don't have the urges to overeat, so they
don't have to exercise self-control to stay thin.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.
 
Bear wrote:

> I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is thin
> and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
>
> I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
>
> Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
> eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
> obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines who
> can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner better
> half.
>
> Just a thought.


Hi Bear,

I'm under the impression that you're a woman (I can be wrong, apologies if I've
got it wrong). Assuming that your better half is a man and that you're a woman,
asuming that you are similarly sized, then your better half is going to burn
more calories than you in each day.

I don't know who's taller between the 2 of you, and I don't know who weights
more between the 2 of you. But the chance is that your better half has a higher
BMR than you. So if you eat the same amount of food, it's very possible that
your better half will stay thin and you'll put on weight slowly but surely.

Ada
 
Bear wrote:
|| I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers
|| side is thin and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky"
|| :eek:)
||

Genetics is a very real part of weight. It just means that some
of
us (I am included) have to work a little harder at it than
others.

BJ
 
Bear wrote:
> I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is thin
> and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
>
> I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
>
> Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
> eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
> obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines who
> can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner better
> half.
>
> Just a thought.


I am sure that with all of the complexities in digestion of food, there
is ample room for genetics.

Quite a few of the food and diet books make mention of those lucky
people who can eat lots of food and never get fat.

I don't think it is the clothes they buy that makes for that particular
difference.

JIm

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In article <[email protected]>, "Bear"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is
> thin
> and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
>
> I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
>
> Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
> eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
> obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines
> who
> can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner
> better
> half.
>
> Just a thought.



My mother's female relatives on her father's side are all pear-shaped
women. We joke about the family trait, and have dubbed it "The Marshall
Ass." My youngest sister is the only one of us girls (five of us!) who
inherited this trait. I favor my father's side--thin legs, no butt,
broad shoulders, and a tendency to gain weight in the belly area (the
dreaded apple shape).

Amy
168/115
 
"Bear" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is thin
> and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
>
> I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
>
> Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
> eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
> obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines who
> can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner better
> half.
>
> Just a thought.


I think it has more to do with dietary habits being passed on from
mother or father to daughter or son.

A family that eats more carbs will be fatter and the kids will learn
to eat the same way and will feed their kids the same way.

TC
 
tcomeau wrote:
|| "Bear" <[email protected]> wrote in message
|| news:<[email protected]>...
||| I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my
||| fathers side is thin
||| and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
|||
||| I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
|||
||| Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what
||| we eat? My dad
||| eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know
||| this seems
||| obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of
||| libertines who
||| can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much
||| thinner better
||| half.
|||
||| Just a thought.
||
|| I think it has more to do with dietary habits being passed on
|| from
|| mother or father to daughter or son.
||
|| A family that eats more carbs will be fatter and the kids
|| will learn
|| to eat the same way and will feed their kids the same way.
||
|| TC

Interesting, environmental rather than genetic. It could be very
difficult to tell the two apart.

BJ
 
There is definitely a genetic component to weight. It makes sense. There
is a genetic component to everything else about us, why would weight be
different.

"Bear" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side is thin
and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)

I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".

Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat? My dad
eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know this seems
obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch of libertines who
can't control themselves. I don't eat much more than my much thinner better
half.

Just a thought.
--
Bear-
Grrrrrrrrrrrr :eek:)
353/284/210
 
It doesn't have to be one or the other, both play a part. That's true about
most everything about us.


"BJ in Texas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
tcomeau wrote:

Interesting, environmental rather than genetic. It could be very
difficult to tell the two apart.

BJ
 
Bear is a man.

In news:[email protected],
Ada Ma <[email protected]> stated
| Bear wrote:
|
|| I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side
|| is thin and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
||
|| I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
||
|| Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat?
|| My dad eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know
|| this seems obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch
|| of libertines who can't control themselves. I don't eat much more
|| than my much thinner better half.
||
|| Just a thought.
|
| Hi Bear,
|
| I'm under the impression that you're a woman (I can be wrong,
| apologies if I've got it wrong). Assuming that your better half is a
| man and that you're a woman, asuming that you are similarly sized,
| then your better half is going to burn more calories than you in each
| day.
|
| I don't know who's taller between the 2 of you, and I don't know who
| weights more between the 2 of you. But the chance is that your
| better half has a higher BMR than you. So if you eat the same amount
| of food, it's very possible that your better half will stay thin and
| you'll put on weight slowly but surely.
|
| Ada

Bear is a man.
 
"JC Der Koenig" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Wrong.
>
> --
> You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW
>


What a terrible, insulting signature! If it's meant to portray you as
one evolved as witty, gay, cosmopolitan, suave, debonair,
intellectually curious, -- let me tell you, it failed.
 
Joan wrote:
|| "JC Der Koenig" <[email protected]> wrote in message
|| news:<[email protected]>...
||| Wrong.
|||
||| --
||| You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW
|||
||
|| What a terrible, insulting signature! If it's meant to
|| portray you as
|| one evolved as witty, gay, cosmopolitan, suave, debonair,
|| intellectually curious, -- let me tell you, it failed.

Somebody actually reads sigs?

BJ
 
I just found out from his other post! And now I feel bad because I feel as if I
have made him to come out to the ASDLC... But then it's hard to tell as you
know, you can never tell from the way a bear grrrrrrr......


FOB wrote:

> Bear is a man.
>
> In news:[email protected],
> Ada Ma <[email protected]> stated
> | Bear wrote:
> |
> || I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side
> || is thin and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
> ||
> || I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
> ||
> || Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat?
> || My dad eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know
> || this seems obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a bunch
> || of libertines who can't control themselves. I don't eat much more
> || than my much thinner better half.
> ||
> || Just a thought.
> |
> | Hi Bear,
> |
> | I'm under the impression that you're a woman (I can be wrong,
> | apologies if I've got it wrong). Assuming that your better half is a
> | man and that you're a woman, asuming that you are similarly sized,
> | then your better half is going to burn more calories than you in each
> | day.
> |
> | I don't know who's taller between the 2 of you, and I don't know who
> | weights more between the 2 of you. But the chance is that your
> | better half has a higher BMR than you. So if you eat the same amount
> | of food, it's very possible that your better half will stay thin and
> | you'll put on weight slowly but surely.
> |
> | Ada
>
> Bear is a man.
>
>
 
Ada Ma wrote:
|| I just found out from his other post! And now I feel bad
|| because I feel as if I have made him to come out to the
|| ASDLC... But then it's hard to tell as you know, you can
|| never tell from the way a bear grrrrrrr......
||
||

I think most of us that have been around a while were aware
of the situation.... so what..

BJ
 
BJ in Texas wrote:
:: Ada Ma wrote:
:::: I just found out from his other post! And now I feel bad
:::: because I feel as if I have made him to come out to the
:::: ASDLC... But then it's hard to tell as you know, you can
:::: never tell from the way a bear grrrrrrr......
::::
::::
::
:: I think most of us that have been around a while were aware
:: of the situation.... so what..
::

Right. No biggie.
 
He came out here a long time ago.

In news:[email protected],
Ada Ma <[email protected]> stated
| I just found out from his other post! And now I feel bad because I
| feel as if I have made him to come out to the ASDLC... But then it's
| hard to tell as you know, you can never tell from the way a bear
| grrrrrrr......
|
|
| FOB wrote:
|
|| Bear is a man.
||
|| In news:[email protected],
|| Ada Ma <[email protected]> stated
||| Bear wrote:
|||
|||| I was thinking about my family and how everyone on my fathers side
|||| is thin and most everyone on my mothers side is "chunky" :eek:)
||||
|||| I look more like my mom than my dad and I'm "chunky".
||||
|||| Anyone else think there's more to being big than just what we eat?
|||| My dad eats whatever he likes and at 80 is thin and active. I know
|||| this seems obvious, but it helps to know that we're not just a
|||| bunch of libertines who can't control themselves. I don't eat much
|||| more than my much thinner better half.
||||
|||| Just a thought.
|||
||| Hi Bear,
|||
||| I'm under the impression that you're a woman (I can be wrong,
||| apologies if I've got it wrong). Assuming that your better half is
||| a man and that you're a woman, asuming that you are similarly sized,
||| then your better half is going to burn more calories than you in
||| each day.
|||
||| I don't know who's taller between the 2 of you, and I don't know who
||| weights more between the 2 of you. But the chance is that your
||| better half has a higher BMR than you. So if you eat the same
||| amount of food, it's very possible that your better half will stay
||| thin and you'll put on weight slowly but surely.
|||
||| Ada
||
|| Bear is a man.
 
: I think it has more to do with dietary habits being passed on from
: mother or father to daughter or son.
:
: A family that eats more carbs will be fatter and the kids will learn
: to eat the same way and will feed their kids the same way.
:
: TC

I can't agree with your supposition. I have one son who is a bit overweight
at 6' tall and 220 pounds and the other one is 6'2" and 150 pounds. They
grew up in the same family. My thin son looks like his grandfather on the
maternal side, though. The guy eats and eats but can't gain much. He is a
weight lifter and looks great--but thin. The overweight son was a cyclist
and a skier, but he can't seem to lose the excess poundage.

Pat in TX