Raven

And I wish my honey had said something over the ten years it took me to gain the weight I had gained. I offer no excuses other than a lack of caring and a change of lifestyle. Sitting at a computer does not keep anyone in shape.

I had never had a weight gain in my life, until I sat down at this bloody computer to earn my living....and ten years later, I was fat. Obese.

My husband adores me and never said a word. I can't put the responsibility on him, simply because it would have done no good, as I wasn't ready to assume the accountability for what I ate and the fact that I was eating too much and not exercising at all. I think about what he could have said and I realise nothing would have worked until I decided that being fat was not something I wanted.

It took an epiphany for me...as I laid flagstone one fine Spring day.....and thought I was going to die, merely from lifting stones that weighed no more than 20 pounds. That is what sent me to the gym...and got me on a nutritional progran, weight lifting and resistance training.

We eat for all kinds of reasons....for me, it is stress that does it, I have found out.

It took me four months to figure out that food is just fuel for my body, exercising relieves stress, and muscles burn fat.

Nine months later....I've gone from a size 18 to a size 6 and I will NEVER go through this again. At this point, the gym is now my magnificent obsession and it's a bloody good one, since it's healthy and allows me to work at this damned computer and stay at a reasonable weight.

I agree that most Americans do not eat healthy and I also agree that the medical profession makes shit loads of money by allowing us to think it's not our fault.......most weight loss programs are designed to fail, even if one achieves their goal.....recidivism is high because they want your money the second, third, and fourth time around. Yo yo dieting is about as unhealthy as a body can get...

While there are certain medical conditions that contribute to obesity, they are few and far between, as per research by the medical community.

It is up to us to educate ourselves and then do it. Hard, but not impossible.

Food has so many meanings, emotionally, for people...and in today's society, we don't walk as they do in Europe. We ride. We sit.

Not only that, nutrition is not something people study, to any great degree. With Lean Cuisine, etc., touting their shit and other manufacturere trying to pull the net carb thing out of their asses, we have a tendency to research televisions with greater intensity than we take when examining what goes into our mouths.

Not offering excuses, but I look at the lifestyles of many Americans and they really do believe they do not have the time to cook healthy, eat healthy....I found out the hard way that we have to make the time and it really doesn't take any longer nor does it cost any more to eat healthy.....by the time we drive through McDonald's, we could have prepared a nutritious meal.

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