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Sly · 05-25-2005, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by NickPapageorgio

See, the part that you don't understand about eating disorders is that alot of the eating habits have been engrained into your mind since you were a baby. I grew up believing that Captain Crunch was ok for me. Shit it says right on there, "A great source of 9 essential vitamins and minerals". Now I read the box and say, "Holy shit look at the sugar and carbs in this crap" My mom made greasy bacon and eggs every damn morning just about for us. We had fried this and fried that. We ate at McDonald's atleast once a week. That's something that I grew up doing and considered it to be ok. It's not easy to re train your mind and body to accept a different pattern of eating or anything for that matter. I know, i'm here doing it. Let me ask you a question, have you ever been overweight and then taken the steps to lose the weight? Or were you speaking from a thin persons perspective on what they think it's like to be fat?

I hope you're only feeding your kids good food, or at least better food.

Its funny, now that I'm older I understand why my parents had some of the rules they did. We did have sugar cereal sometimes, but we also had the good cereal, and we definitely didn't add sugar. We never ate out, mainly due to money issues, but it was still a good choice. We could have a soda once in a while, otherwise we had to split one, this was considered a treat. We never had desert, the meal itself was always filling enough. If we wanted a snack, it was half a sandwich or maybe an apple... we never had junk food in the house, my dad wouldn't buy it because he knew he would end up eating it all. We had milk with our meals, not soda. If we were thirsty, we turned on the faucet.

I was always bummed as a kid because my friends had soda whenever they wanted, they ate out at McDonald's, they added sugar to their already sugary cereal, and damn that sounded so delicious. But now when I sit back and compare myself with friends and others, I NEVER get sick, I have only one health problem (that is a different issue altogether), I'm generally pretty happy... guess my parents knew something!