Yes, if your parents are fat, you will probably be too. But it is not genetics, it is due to a lifetime of developing and indulging bad habits that you learned from those parents beginning early in your childhood. It is a cop-out to say there is nothing that you can do to affect your weight – the trick is to develop life long habits that support and enable you to maintain you weight. No,you cannot continue to frequent McDonald’s, Dominos, and Krispy Kreme and then say, “my parents are fat, I am fat – there is nothing I can do.”

It is time for people to start accepting and owning the results of their actions and the poor choices they have made. Until people do this, they are doomed to continue repeating the same lifestyles and habits that they were raised with. And as a result, the national obesity rate will continue to rise – just like the out of control spending and credit card abuse (all of which are “not my fault”).

By the way, please don’t let some of the testimonials on this website hear you – these people have done a great job of keeping their weight off. It would be a shame for them to hear the cynism and start thinking there was no way for them to maintain their healthy lifestyles and choices.