Oprah recently came out and said she has the obesity gene and her weight struggles were never about willpower or discipline, but instead about biology.

And to say the least, the internet exploded about those comments, people saying things like, well, if you have the obesity

gene, where is the discipline gene? Where is the willpower gene? You're just delaying and

defecting accountability and personal responsibility. So in this episode of the Eric Roberts

Fitness podcast, we're going to be covering, do genetics play a role in obesity?

If so, how much of a role do they play?

And even if you are somebody who may have some of these bad genetics that lead to obesity,

how would you be able to overcome those and still see the fat loss progress that you want to see? That's what we're going to dive into

today. So the first fallacy that I want to break for you is the belief that it's 100% black or white in either direction, meaning, oh, you have the bad

genetics so you can't lose weight. Or you have great genetics, and that's the only reason

why you lose weight and stay in shape. We all know these kind of people, right?

You'll have somebody who, you feel like they eat nothing, but they still gain weight.

And on the flip side, you have these people who they can eat anything they want,

and somehow they still do not gain weight.

Meanwhile, you're over here eating 1,200 calories and not being able to lose any weight.

And those people piss you off.

I know that.

But those are two different people who have two different genetics.

And I have the saying or the phrase of like, genetics can set the difficulty of the video game that you're playing.

So let's say you're playing Call of Duty or playing FIFA or Madden or whatever.

You can set the difficulty.

You can play on easy mode or you can play on hard mode.

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