I never said fat was healthy though.
Why you had to type all of that? Come on old head, dang. I don't even disagree with this though!
I'm working on my weight now, cut out starches, drinking plenty of water, smaller portions.
I burn 500 calories just from breastfeeding alone so I've started losing a bit quicker than I should.
People have to want the desire to lose weight, the desire to make healthier choices. It isn't easy though and self discipline is a mother fucker.
My point is, believe it or not many things play a role into adult and even childhood obesity for many that can start from infancy. May not be you but it can be someone else, period.
and one of those things is that food can taste good.
Me and my siblings grew up in a household that ate no swine or red meat with fish as the primary meat and plenty of fruits and veggies. The problem with that? Outside of my uncle and his family, no one else ate like that. When we would go to our grandmothers cribs it was pork chops, bacon ans sausages, kielbasa, pizzas with pepperoni and italian sausage and shit like that.
Food could taste good.
As soon as I got my first job at Hardee's I started eating fast food in abundance because... hey... food
CAN taste good and I now had the means to buy it especially with that 50% discount we had for working there. I'd hit up the coney spot around from my school over on 6 mile and Wyoming and when they opened up a coney spot in my neighborhood it was a wrap. As kids we weren't allowed to eat candy (especially chocolate for some reason) and drink pop except as a once in a blue moon treat but once I had my own money I would buy shit from the candy store right before school along with a Faygo cola or something and would eat that shit throughout the day. At lunch I had an ID that said I had driver's ed so I could leave the building and would hit the spot for some coneys and fries.
This carried on as an adult where I could afford to buy whatever tasted good in abundance. Because I was still athletic my metabolism would handle the task of burning off whatever I ate no matter how insane an amount it was. I was known among the crew as a cat that would buy a double quarter pounder with double extra cheese, a big mac with double cheese, filet of fish, super sized fries, eat all of that washed down with beer or liquor and look at your food like "you gonna eat that?" and wouldn't gain a single pound. I worked retail selling car audio back then so I was always on my feet on the sales floor or getting physical by installing the shit or building subwoofer cabinets and after work I was still on my feet at the arcade or at a bar/club pushin up on some chicks.
Where this all caught up to me was my first office job. Instead of standing for 9-10 hrs a day I was now sitting for 9hrs. Huge shift for me physically and this is where it all falls apart for most people. When you get out of the house and start buying food for yourself you tend to buy the things you feel you were deprived of as a child and tend to overdo it. When you're no longer active as you were in your younger years all of that catches up to you and you end up gaining weight like crazy and wake up one morning wondering why you can't fit in them jeans you just bought last week (which literally happened to me).
In a sense you're right, it does start in childhood, but not in the way you're thinking.
