I personally believe that it is in your genes, I mean most overweight people that I know had overweight parents. But, who cares, that doesn't mean that you have to be fat for the rest of your life. And really, it probably isn't so much of a gene thing than the fact that your parents passed on and raised you with bad eating habits from the beginning. I can reflect on my southern child hood to back this statement up. Breakfast tables filled with biscuits and sugar gravy, lunches that were mostly bread, all of my snacks were filled with sugar, and there was flour gravy on EVERYTHING!

Your uncle should learn to keep his opinion to himself. Maybe we can all just wish really hard that he'll all of a sudden gain 75 pounds and then he would know what it's like.

Keep up the great work!