I am sad to see nobody has joined this Community!

It is sad that nobody has joined this community.

There is support in numbers. Lord knows I need Support.

I am Obese. I have been my entire life. I did nothing about my weight for years and now my body is breaking down and failing me because I failed it when I was younger. I am too old to care about what anybody thinks of my weight: actually my looks. Fat people are not judged on anything else but their weight. I can't believe there are so many stereo-types for fat people. Their Lazy! They eat too much! They eat Junk! They are insecure! They can't control themselves! I was an overweight teenager and played, Softball, volleyball, football, soccer, and cross country track. As a young adult I played softball for my church.
There are so many reasons why a person can be overweight and I wish people would quit being so judgmental.

The U.S. is getting fatter! The food corporations love it! They put additives in our food that make us addicted. When you try to quit eating your favorite snack your body actually withdraws from it and you, virtually always, end up going back to it. Our bodies were made to process whole, natural foods; not the chemically altered crap we find in our grocery stores. Even the fresh produce is contaminated with all kinds of chemicals! Our meet is inundated with hormones and steroids! The foods our children eat now are so altered now they don’t even know that an egg actually had taste 30 years ago. That was a time when going out to eat was a big deal and it happened rarely.  Don’t get me wrong I eat all the crap and I am addicted. I am slowly changing that but it is hard. My weakness was bleached flour products, bleached rice products, chemically loaded processed food and chemically altered fat products. If we don’t start changing the way our children eat our life span will go down to a time when it was common people in their 30’s and 40’s died. I am noticing that more and more people are dying in their 50’s because their bodies are tired of fighting off the chemicals introduced to their bodies multiple times a day.
There used to be a nutrition statement the “If you can’t read it, don’t eat it!” Well, we just learned how to read it or we didn’t care. I know I was one of those who learned how to read it! For a long time, I knew how to read it but I didn’t know what it was.  I am now educating myself on the actual chemically altered products the food producers put in our foods.  There is so much information out there it is insane to keep torturing our bodies! Yes some of the products originated from natural products, but by the time it is finished being processed it is something totally different!

We can all help each other by educating each other! God bless, and I hope your journey to getting healthy is successful!!
If you want to chat, I will never judge you!
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