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You may have fat in your jeans; but not in your genes! Of all the bullshit excuses I’ve heard as to why people can’t lose weight, this has to go in at number one. It is true that depending on your genes you can have a predisposition for many illnesses including weight gain, but this doesn’t mean you can’t do anything about it.

My father didn’t give me much, but one of the things he was generous with was his buggered-up genes. He managed to pass on a predisposition for asthma, eczema, psoriasis, hay fever and weight gain – nice! This means it takes less wrongdoing for me to get these ailments than someone who is not predisposed to them. So yes, if your mother or father was overweight then it might be possible – unlikely, but possible – that they have passed on a gene which makes you gain weight easily. However, unlike asthma, eczema, psoriasis and hay fever, all of which can have other contributing factors, weight gain is only caused by one thing – eating too much of the wrong kinds of foods and not moving your body enough. People often say, ‘My mother was fat so that’s why I’m fat,’ but chances are that’s not even down to a predisposition; it’s simply that they lived in the same house, ate the same food and watched the same amount of TV.