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Yep, that's the scary thing. The FDA doesn't have the highest standards for labeling!! So many things are in our food or used in the animals, crops, etc. that do get into our food!

Yes, our family has done very well with portion control and trying to up our exercise (which, let me just tell you is NOT as easy as it sounds when you are overweight and have health issues!), but my daughter and I are still not losing weight. It's such a self-esteem blow to hear people say that it's so simple and then it's really not because there ARE so many components!!!

We have a choice to eat hormones or not...we have a choice to choose portion control or not......we have a choice to exercise or not!

We have a choice to maintain a healthy weight or not.

Yes...in a few instances, people carry weight due to health issues...medications....etc...but...for the most part it is unhealthy eating and lack of exercise. This is a health issue...not a personal feeling or emotion regarding weight.

A choice? How do we have choices when we go to the grocery store and healthy foods aren't labeled? How was I to know that skim milk, lean chicken, and vegetables would be loaded with chemicals that would make me fat?

I didn't choose to eat these foods at 6 years old. I didn't choose to go through puberty at 6 years old either. When I got strep throat at 11 years old it wasn't my choice to go on antibiotics. It wasn't my choice to drink NutraSweet as a child either which is now believed to contribute to obesity instead of helping it.

It's not just about portion control and exercising. More people are exercising in the US than ever and obesity is higher than ever. It's the fact that we are doing the wrong types of exercise. We aren't walking enough like people do in other countries.

Portions are only a tine part of the issues. People have come here from other countries and eat the same types of food as they ate in their own countries. Most of them gain weight because all the crap in the food over here screws up people's metabolism.

I have seen the opposite happen too. People move to other countries like the UK in with very little change begin losing weight.

I really wish I was choosing to be obese but the sad fact is that this is not a choice despite what closed minded people would like to believe.

I am not looking for people to accept me for being obese or to say it's ok. I just really wish that people would stop looking down on people like me though.

Don't know what time everyone on the east coast get Oprah...but today, Dr. Oz will be on and talking about how to lose a dress size in 10 days. I'll be watching....just thought some of you may be interested as well. So we shall see...how a person can truly lose a dress size in 10 days or if it is just about water loss.

grizzlys4 wrote:

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Yep, that's the scary thing. The FDA doesn't have the highest standards for labeling!! So many things are in our food or used in the animals, crops, etc. that do get into our food!

Yes, our family has done very well with portion control and trying to up our exercise (which, let me just tell you is NOT as easy as it sounds when you are overweight and have health issues!), but my daughter and I are still not losing weight. It's such a self-esteem blow to hear people say that it's so simple and then it's really not because there ARE so many components!!!

I've gained weight... I've lost weight... I've maintained weight for years at a time... only to gain weight again... and to lose weight again... LOL

I've noticed more than a few diet books at the book stores... I've noticed the subject of diet is often discussed on news programs, talk shows, etc.

Dieting... changing habits... adjusting habits... readjusting habits has always been a part of my life... I am constantly learning about myself and my body... what seemed to work years ago... does not always work today... so I adjust... and I readjust.

Dieting or changing habits are not easy for me... so I applaud everyone who tries, fails, tries again, and again, and again. LOL

Re: French Women Don't Get Fat... this book was fun to read... it was informative and inspirational.

Re: Dr. Oz on Oprah was very informative this week.

I think it very telling that we are a nation obsessed with "obesity" and judge harshly under the guise of "health" concerns. I've heard it from so many...............

Do you THINK I don't know I'm obese????? Do you think I don't KNOW my health is at risk???

I don't go around preaching about other lifestyle choices and judging others for choices............but this nation will not give up the last politically correct prejudice against overweight people.

We pay for our insurance, hold jobs, raise our families, volunteer in the community...............OMG...........aren't we a horrible scourge??????

So.........what's my solution? Simple:

Talk about ALL health issues with equal focus and attention and lose the negativity and closed-mindedness about <<<<GASP>>>> fat people......like it's a contagious socially unacceptable disease!!!

People are fat, thin, short, tall, happy, sad, purple, green, etc, etc. Why? We are all different, yet all the same. Solidarity in fighting every type of health issue along with every type of stereo-typing would be so refreshing....and also enable us to truly advance in health care options and resources!