Everyone can control their f**king weight. No excuse! It starts from childhood. I know everyone's genes are different, but there's thing you can do about it.

OK, it must be true if you say so 

It starts from childhood.

What does? Weight control? Good diet? Proper/sane upbringing?

It starts from childhood. What does? Weight control? Good diet? Proper/sane upbringing?

Both! I am 22 years old. It seemed like it was just yesterday that I was in elementary school. The fat kids were usually (but not always) the ones who had wealthy or upper middle class parents. They were always eating or snacking on things because they had lots of allowance to do so. And then when gym class came around, they didnt do much...and if they did, it didnt make much difference because they spent their time eating candy all day long  

Few years later, they are so fat and they wonder why. I understand 100%, yes...people have different body types. Endomorphs, ectomorphs, and mesomorphs are totally different. I consider myself an ectomorph.

But Im not talking about body types. Im talking about fat and cellulite. Maybe we can blame the resturaunts. Maybe we can blame the 12 hour days. Understandable. But am I a stupid whore who shouldnt be selling *** for money because I happen to not like that particular body type? NO!

In additon, I agree...its harder to clean 'nooks and crannies' when you're fat than when you're skinny. There's no doubt. Thats just 1 reason why I feel the way I do.

Ah, the fat issue.

There are so many angles on that. I don't support discrimination of fat people. At the same time, I don't support the idea that fat people aren't our business. Because unfortunately, it's not as easy as that. Whenever I see a mum (who more often than not is herself fat) feeding her buggy straddled toddler yet another Pepsi or Ribena, I want to scream. Because unwittingly, this no doubt otherwise loving and caring mother is ignorantly abusing her child.  

She's restricting her darling's movement and physical desire to move around by keeping it still, strapped and with it's lower back in a rounded position.  If we did this to adults then I'd swear it would be classed as torture. Repeat this behaviour on a daily basis and you create an inactive kid with poor posture and bad chest breathing habits. As when you sit disengaged with your lower back rounded, you start to slouch. And when you slouch, you stop engaging your diaphragm and start using your chest for shallow breathing.*** You then stop engaging your core muscles, leading to weakened support for your whole posture and spine.

Add refined sugars and sweeteners and you're feeding your baby's parasites like Candida Albicans* which all crave sugar and a messed up metabolism to multiply. This creates an addiction in your child which they will find tremendously hard to overcome. Fast forward 20 years and you'll have a young adult who most likely has grown fat, inactive and has perhaps even developed diabetes, asthma and spinal injuries. Arrrggghhh!  

Here's the thing:

When we're born and up to about a toddler's age - we're perfect.** Our diaphragmatic breathing is perfect.*** Our natural posture is perfect. Our voice projection is perfect (which is why as tiny critters we make such a great noise). Then later we get straddled, told to be quiet, sit still and start to imitate grown up behaviour.**** The result being we copy how our mums or dads etc slouch over computers, watch telly, chest breathe and comfort eat. And that's where it all goes wrong.

The fat issue I believe, is a class issue. Speaking as someone who mostly eats organic, non processed food with sufficient amounts of quality protein, I say - this shit is expensive! A normal working class mum simply can't afford the time or money sourcing and preparing organic food from scratch. But middle class mums can, and you can see how many more obese people there are in poorer boroughs of London in comparison to posh ones. Just sit on the tube and travel.  

In the old days, all food was organic and non processed. Now, we're paying through the nose for this unadulterated "privilege". Instead of feeding the masses, we are simply poisoning the masses with antibiotic and growth hormone fed meats, lice riddled farmed fish, pesticided veg and prepacked, nutrition deprived garbage pasted off as sandwiches, ready meals, hot dogs, light snacks and "sugar free" yoghurt's. Plus we deprive ourselves of exercise, since many work environments require us to sit still for increasingly long working days with no time for proper breaks, let alone gym visits.

All whilst we're spoonfed propaganda that "rich" food which humankind relied on for centuries are somewhat bad for us. Such as saturated fats, meats, full fat dairy etc. And that cornflakes, cereals and prepacked fruit juices plus anything "sugar free" is apparently healthy. We are taught to count calories, instead of looking at ingredients, nutrition values and proportions between carbs, fats and proteins on our plates. Or to question how our food has been produced. We are told to cut down on fat despite contradictory evidence on the matter. We are told that saturated fats leads to bad cholesterol when as a matter of fact, there is no proper evidence of this to be true.*****

We are accustomed to only have a light snack in the morning, and heavy meals late at night. That's despite the fact that we would have needed that proper meal during daytime, instead of trying to digest it in our sleep. And day after we drink coffee, Diet Coke and tea (caffeine) to "keep us awake", since our bodies are shattered due to lack of daytime nutrition and quality sleep, as nights were spent digesting food. We drink alcohol (aka fermented sugars) because that's what you do when you're an adult, and you're a bore if you don't comply to such beliefs. We replace our daily need for water with above mentioned liquidised junk, despite knowing that we contain mostly water and thus need it for our survival.

We rarely eat raw vegetables and unprocessed fish or meats - despite our intestines being designed for this purpose. We completely overturned our natural eating and living habits in those last 50-100 years, despite knowing that physically we have pretty much the same needs as when we last lived in caves.

...And we wonder why we get fat.

  SnakeLady

*See my Thrush Prevention thread in Questions and Answers.
** Provided that there are no other severe medical conditions which may restrict our natural instinctive behaviour. If you look at books on Alexander Technique you find that comparisons have been made between a toddler's posture and movement and computer postures most of us inhabit.
*** Optimally, we discard 70% of wastage through breathing. Yes really, it's been taught to me by a personal trainer/osteopath. Now it doesn't take an Einstein to see that by restricting our normal diaphragmatic breathing, we are not discarding same amount of waste, and nor do we supply our bodies with sufficient amounts of oxygen that we otherwise would.
**** This was taught to me years ago by an acclaimed speech therapist during an actor's workshop.
***** Read "What Doctors Don't Tell You" by Lynne McTaggart.

Oh no, it's fine. This sort of thing happens all the time on the internet and you weren't even threatening to leave and never come back!

I hope everything's better today.

Right, Joey - I am telling you not to 'use the increase in font feature'. Or at least not to type expletives or anything else in the forum equivalent of ten foot high letters. If you cannot get your point across without doing this then I suggest that you stop shrieking and reread the posts of all the other people who manage to do so just fine.

It's completely unnecessary, horribly annoying to look at and adds nothing of value or relevance to your posts. Just because the facility is there doesn't mean you need to pepper every post with it any more than you should be typing in all caps just because you have a Caps Lock button. If you're not capable of applying restraint - quit it.