Let me hold out a flag of hope for you, dear Big Person, because you are going to get the single best weight-loss tip of your life.

Look: There definitely are differences in body-types: the Meso-, Endo-, and Ectomorphic types and all of them respond differently to exercise and nutrition. Very quickly: the Ectomorph has it easy - she seems to be able to eat anything and everything and never put on weight. At the other end of the scale is the Mesomorph, who puts on weight (and muscle) easily, and has to constantly watch out for the amount of calories she consumes.

Granted, our body types do dictate, generally, what we are going to look like.

On the other hand, think of this: there are hardly any overweight people on the continent of Africa. And the same genes that many of the blacks in the Americas have, can be found there - after all Africa is where the American blacks have come from! So we should have found the same kind of distribution of "Big" people in Africa.

The differentiating factor then comes down to the availability of calories in the two places: i.e., who has easy access to calorie-filled meals? The answer then, to the reason we are overweight, is simple. We are very often overweight because of our (family) habits.

Somewhere in your family history, your family members may have decided to buy and eat more, much more than you need for your body. And these habits have eventually replaced your family's original healthy food habits, with the result that today you have habits that have dictated the shape of an entire generation in your family.

Yes, someone is to "blame". Someone in your family tree has started habits that have shaped your family. The good news is that your body shape is not "indelible". The results that you see in your family's weight (and yourself) can be changed, turned around, indeed, erased forever.

And you start changing your body shape and weight right now with this single simple weight loss tip: Stop Blaming "someone out there".

Stop looking for something to point at, someone to lay the blame on for your being overweight. Stop, because when you blame, you lose your own incredible personal power: your power to choose what you want for yourself and to take action to achieve it.

If you are reading this article and just looking for ammunition to help you in blaming your family, you are wasting your time. However, if you have been searching for a solution to your being overweight, you have come to the right place. The place where you can start getting new results for yourself by changing one thing: your Mind.

Remember this one sentence: Once you have stopped blaming and have started making conscious, well-thought-out choices, you are ready to take control of your life. Now you are ready to lose weight permanently and change your shape.

Having had an environment where most of the family is overweight, you most likely have internal programming that will keep you overweight, unless you fix it. That is something that many overweight people have in common. For some reason or the other, their minds had learnt that being overweight is "good and desirable", or the actions that led to them being overweight (like eating the amounts or types of food that make one overweight) are "good and desirable".

My Weight-Loss Tip is this: You must fix your mind. You need to become aware of your programming. You need to use mind-tools (and use them systematically) to help you turn your life around.

Does this sound like Work? Of course, it's work! But if you want to lose weight, to change your body (and your entire Life), you can.

Remember this: Awareness is the key to changing your Life. Become Aware of how you make your decisions about food and exercise. It is very likely that your decision-mechanism has been pre-programmed towards actions that make you fat. Start questioning your "normal" choices in food, exercise, and life-style. Question everything you do out of habit. Start examining your life. Ask yourself "Why do I do this?" Ask yourself "What if I were to …..?" Think about different ways of eating, of spending your leisure time, of entertaining yourself and your children.

And find a System that will help you do this, consistently, until new habits, new ways of behaving and living are formed within you.

And then, you will be really free of the burden of being overweight.

In this article I have helped you by raising your awareness about a possible culprit in your life: Your personal Awareness level, your programmed mind and whether your minute-to-minute power to choose has been hijacked.

Think about it. Then take Action to Fix your Mind.