A short spoken segment from Lori Harder recounting a family narrative that blamed overweight status on "bad genetics." She describes rejecting that deterministic belief, changing habits, and later learning from medical tests that her genetics were normal and prior issues were driven by habits rather than inherited fate.
Growing up, I had a story in my family that it was our genetics, that we were overweight. And that's all that I heard. And when I was young, I was sitting at a table with all my aunts. They knew that I was kind of getting into exercise. And they're like, don't even bother. It was like very much. This is our genetics. This is our genetics. This is our genetics. My whole life I was like, I have bad genetics. I have to work even harder. I'm going to be overweight. That was one of my moments in life where I was like, nope, I will not accept this as my future. Come to find out, I've broken a lot of patterns now. I do like all of these different blood tests and all these things. He's like, you're very normal. You don't have bad genetics. You had bad habits.
