You're fat because you eat too much

[Jade]

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences.

The way I understand and see it, is that modern food is so manufactured and processed that people think they are eating meals but they are really eating almost nothing. All of the real nutrients and life has been removed from the food to homogenize it so it's able to be produced in bulk. People eat food without nutritional content, so their body demands more food. Or its sprayed with chemicals to further reduce its life force. I think it's totally legitimate that there are people who constantly feel hungry and that is why they are overweight. No one has taught them what real food is.

Sugar is highly addictive. However, just like everything else, if you can willingly detox from it, is becomes less palatable (or at least in such large quantities). This is exacerbated by things that have "fake" sugar (aspartame et al) because aspartame is SO sweet, that it desensitizes your taste buds to natural levels of sweetness. Someone who drinks Diet Coke all the time is not likely to find a ripe strawberry to be sweet on its own. They put aspartame in milk now, too.

I totally get and understand why people are fat. It is a HUGE catalyst here, and I think mainly it involves self-acceptance in the face of addiction and societal rejection. I don't think rejecting the fat self is the answer. I think accepting the "flawed", addicted, hurting self as a valid self and deciding whether you prefer a different valid self is the answer.