Yes it is true; some people do inherit the ability to store more fat than others do.

But you still can’t use that as an excuse, all it means is that you have to work a little harder and be more careful about what you eat.

Unfortunately that’s the way your made like some really gifted sports people who effortlessly show their skills whilst others really struggle to make the grade.

Some people just have to work harder to get there. Something to think about the next time you blame your genes. If your parents are over weight and their parents are over weight and so on, it is quite possible that you have inherited the gene, but if your dog is over weight then it’s environmental.

Alcohol contains many calories, it also slows down the fat burning process, but it doesn’t have to be given up to lose weight.

Just reduce your alcohol intake to a sensible level and increase your activity and you can still enjoy a few drinks.

To burn off the energy of one standard alcoholic drink you need to do 10 minutes of walking. That’s a lot of walking for some come Saturday morning.

Once again it’s more about being sensible and limiting yourself to 2 a day for women and 4 a day for men with at least 3 alcohol free days per week.

Moderation is the key

Every Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Supplement Company in the world today would love to be the first to develop a pill that could strip off body fat.

To-date there has been nothing developed that even comes close to turning the Obesity epidemic around.

If only the dreams of many could be realised. Take a pill or some herbal concoction and your excess body fat falls off you, revelling this beautiful, healthy physique.
Unfortunately many of us have fallen pray to very clever marketing campaigns that make outlandish claims about weight loss. Like diets, if they were successful then why are there so many overweight people in the world.

The unfortunate truth for many is that you can not replace sensible, low fat healthy eating and plenty of exercise with a pill.

Australians spend billions of dollars every year trying to find an easy way. Save your hard-earned money and invest in a good pair of training shoes, replace your junk food with fruit and vegetables and watch your body shape change

There must be nearly as many diets out there as there are grains of sands on a beach. Every day I here of a new weight loss miracle. If these miracles were so successful then why isn’t everyone slim.

Everytime you turn the television on or open a women’s magazine someone is reporting on a new and improved, easy to do diet plan, guaranteed to shed all the weight you want. Put simply, Diets don’t work!

Unless you can do what ever it takes to lose weight for the rest of your life you will simply regain all that lost weight and in most cases more when you can no longer sustain the torture.

Why? Because when you restrict your energy intake below healthy levels your body automatically goes into survival mode.
A 10% reduction in energy intake results in an immediate [within 24 hours] reduction in metabolic rate of up to 20%.

If this didn’t happen then every time we went with out food for an extended period, we would waste away to nothing and the human race would never have survived.
The message here is, don’t diet, learn to eat sensibly and get plenty of exercise.