Physically, not all mean are created equal.
Each of us have our own unique genetic makeup.
These genetic variables dictate our fitness, fat loss, muscle development and athletic ability.
There is nothing much we can do about genetics but genetics is only the raw material.
Absolutely everyone has the inherent ability to attain one's maximum fitness, fat loss, muscle and athletic potential.
Like an uncut diamond, your body has the capacity to be great.
Cut and polished to perfection, a diamond dazzles.
Your body, if it reaches its full potential, can do the same.
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the really just the energy needed to maintain basic body processes.
Some people have faster basal metabolic rates than others.
Though exercise is not included in BMR measurements, the muscles that you develop as a result of it do.
It is because muscles require a higher amount of calories to keep functioning.
The number of fat cells in one's body is genetically predetermined.
Women generally have more fat cells than men.
Fat cells can only be reduced in size.
It will take liposuction to diminish its number.
It is however, possible to increase the number of fat cells by going on a high fat diet.
Exercise and a sensible nutrition plan though can decrease fat cells' size dramatically.
Body proportion and symmetry are hereditary.
Some people have naturally long limbs while others have short ones.
Proportion and symmetry is dependent on how each body part relates to each other.
Working on your weak parts to make it your body appear proportional is achievable.
People may be large, medium or small boned.
Big boned people complain that they appear overweight but this has nothing to do with how you lose fat.
Muscles insert onto the same bones in humans but the exact point varies.
This affects leverage and therefore, strength.
Muscle fibers like fat cells are also genetically predetermined.
People with more muscle fibers naturally have more potential to grow bigger.
Muscle fibers are further divided into two types.
The fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers.
Endurance activities like running use slow twitch muscles while strength is dictated by the amount of fast twitch muscles.
If you are inclined towards weight training, you have more fast twitch muscles.
Food tolerance problems like allergies, insulin response and carbohydrate sensitivity affect one's relationship with food.
Digestive capacity also differs in terms of absorption and utilization of nutrients.
Some people even have longer digestive tracts than others.
If you feel that you've been dealt a rotten hand genetically, don't despair.
Genetics does not have sole control of how your body turns out.
Fat loss is determined more by factors that you can control.
Success comes when you make the most of what you have.