While my doctor saw this as a generational genetic pattern; that I’d inherited my mom’s physical patterns; it clicked that this is likely an emotional pattern and possibly behavioral I inherited from her. When I yo-yo diet and my weight yo-yos, I’m actually running on my mom’s energy and not my own. Because while we do have genetic patterns, we actually have a lot more control over them than we realize. Our lifestyle factors can even overcome our genes and turn them on and off.