Genetics and weight I like discussing how fats take real things and distort them into excuses. It blows my mind. Let's talk genetics! My sister is thin but if she ever gains weight, it's in her legs, but she has insane abs. Several other women in our family have that body type, where the weight is in their legs.  Most of them also share similar facial features.  Or maybe I just have a family of clones.   I have thinner, longer legs, but when I gain, it goes to my stomach.  Which I fucking hate, but I do like my legs so I guess whatever.  There's maybe one other family member that shares my shape (she's a little overweight but the distribution is more in her middle which is what mine would do if I gained a significant amount).   Our shapes are genetic.  Our weights are due to a significant difference in diet and exercise.  There's a couple other women in extended family that I suspect would have my shape if they lost weight, but they're a so fat you can't tell what they are.  Luckily they're distant enough that I see them once every 3 years or so.   Having a shape like other people in your family, that's genetics.  Rather like having the same nose as your sister or the same receding hairline as your grandfather.   200 extra pounds of fat is not genetics.   But of course fats have an excuse for everything.   How on earth do they honestly fucking think that being obese is just genetic?