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Im more confused why poor people are fat.

I grew without money and worrying about utilities getting cut off.

I grew up as bones because I couldnt eat. Even with free lunch.

I feel food quality plays a larger role than quantity.

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It's not losing weight that's hard. It's getting into that state of mind where you CAN lose weight that's hard. Took me two years to cut back on pop, pizza and pasta and red meat (the last bit's not really for weight but for blood pressure). Now I don't drink pop unless it's mixed in with drinks or I'm having a cheat day at some joint.
The worst periods are holidays and vacations though. Kinda hard to pass up once in a year cooking feasts. These days though I simply get less plates and ask for recipes. No need to stuff myself silly if I can learn how to make it on my own after all.

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

Im more confused why poor people are fat.

I grew without money and worrying about utilities getting cut off.

I grew up as bones because I couldnt eat. Even with free lunch.

I feel food quality plays a larger role than quantity.

There are different kinds of poor and different situations. My family was feast or famine type poor because money never came in or went out consistently. Lots of times we went hungry but there were more times that cheap, high calorie junk food was abundant. That kind of food became a substitute for entertainment and other things we couldn't afford, so when food was around nobody was going to tell us, "hey stop, you're eating too much."

I used to think it was a money management issue but there's really no way my mom could've saved money by feeding us cheap, "boring," and healthful food. We'd have driven her mad(der) that way without being pacified with "pizza and blockbuster night" or going to the park with a fried chicken picnic. Aside from that, there just wasn't that much money coming in for it to amount to anything meaningful in any feasible amount of time.

Extreme_light posted...

It's getting into that state of mind where you CAN lose weight that's hard.

Yup, and there are so many different reasons why people engage in behavior that makes them overweight. I used to think that if I lost weight, it would improve everything else but I had to get myself right in order to lose weight. Get your mind right, get your grind right. Things did improve from weight loss, for sure, but much in the same way that you can get stuck in a negative feedback loop with excessive weight gain, removing the burden of carrying around a whole other person was only going to make things easier.

But I had to start somewhere and the thing that whipped me into shape was getting severely and inexplicably ill and confronting my mortality. That was similarly the only reason I was able to quit drinking and get sober. Sadly, that's often not enough for people dealing with either issue. Many of my family members are suffering terribly from obesity related illness and will die fat.


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