{"id":527157,"date":"2010-04-14T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/body-weight-is-it-predestined-by-genetics\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:05:00","slug":"body-weight-is-it-predestined-by-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527157","title":{"rendered":"Body Weight: Is it Predestined by Genetics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fit-family-guy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fit Family Guy<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/04\/scale-cropped-1270837090.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Some people believe they are doomed to be overweight. They think that no matter what they do, they can&#8217;t permanently keep the pounds off because they are predestined to exist at a certain genetic body weight set point.<\/div>\n<p>This is also known as &#8220;poor me syndrome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see the hate mail.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/05\/25\/health\/95-regain-lost-weight-or-do-they.html?pagewanted=1\">common myth that 95 percent of people who lose weight end up gaining it all back<\/a>, which has contributed to the idea of a body weight set point, but in reality we don&#8217;t have any accurate numbers as to what percentage of people gain the weight back. My guess is that it is considerably less than percent.<\/p>\n<p>The more important question is not how many people gain the weight back, but why. Does a person&#8217;s body really have a set point?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: No, it doesn&#8217;t. It has an infinite number of set points based on current activity and caloric intake levels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out more after the jump<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/body-weight-is-it-predestined-by-genetics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Body Weight: Is it Predestined by Genetics?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/body-weight-is-it-predestined-by-genetics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19433754\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/body-weight-is-it-predestined-by-genetics\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Health, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Fit Family Guy Some people believe they are doomed to be overweight. They think that no matter what they do, they can&#8217;t permanently keep the pounds off because they are predestined to exist at a certain genetic body weight set point. This is also known as &#8220;poor me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}