If you started to gain weight at a very young age, again, this can be behavior or genetics at work. If your family had pizza for dinner, the usual breakfast of cereals with whole milk, fast food for lunch, and possibly ice cream and candy for snacks, how could you help but gain weight unless you had an incredibly fast metabolism? If you ate like this, and didn’t gain weight, you were probably very active with ecto-morphic genetics. Whichever it is, it is never too late to break a pattern – never. I have seen 70 and 80 year olds lose weight and regain their youthful vigor. If they can do it, so can you!