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Originally Posted by bronco67
There are people with bad metabolisms, but most of the time that bad metabolism is created by lifestyle. You know how they say your metabolism goes to shit as you get older? That's a pile of bullshit. Your lifestyle changes as you get older and that fucks up your metabolism and makes you a fat storing machine. You can undo it.
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That's not entirely true, as you age your metabolism slows down. Lets say your BMR is 2000 at 30 years old, by the time you're 40 your BMR will be around 1900, 50 around 1800 etc
Middle age spread is a bit of a myth, well ignorance more than anything. You either choose to eat a bit less as you age or do more exercise to compensate, most people do neither and they put on weight.
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Originally Posted by bronco67
Morbidly obese people are that way because of poor impulse control. You have to have the calories to make that much body fat and no amount of "bad metabolism" can do that. Too much credit is given to hormones when it's a matter of not being able to stop stuffing food down their gullets.
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To be fair it's not black and white, once someone is morbidly obese it is an uphill struggle to rectify the damage. A bit like those people you see that have lost 200 pounds and are left with all this disgusting excess skin they can never get rid of, skin has a limit to it's elasticity and once it's been stretched beyond it's limit there is no fixing it.
Once someone is morbidly obese they have insulin resistance, leptin and ghrelin resistance (hormones that regulate hunger) so they always feel hungry, they usually have depression and their entire bodies are inflamed which can lead to many other illnesses.
It's still 100% their own fault that they got to that point, I'm just saying it's a lot more difficult to change once your body is in that much trouble because you're battling against a host of self inflicted problems.
Then of coarse if you're filling your body with sugar and junk food you're feeding the bad bacteria in your gut microbiome which comes back to TheSquealers point about conscious and free will, you don't crave the junk food it's your gut microbiome that craves it.