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[quote=Anonymous]I think whether you feel traumatized or content about your eating habits is all a matter of perception.

My family is from western Europe and has always been very judgemental about women's bodies. I have been called fat and told not to eat so much. Funnily enough, that didn't really bother me - I am not the sort of person to feel ill-used easily.

I watch what I eat in middle age, not because I've been conditioned to do that by my family, but more importantly because I have borderline high cholesterol and my HbA1C has occasionally been elevated. I don't want to block my arteries or develop diabetes like a few of my relatives! Two of them had stents put in, and one had multiple bypass surgery. My father has a lot of atherosclerosis. None of them are overweight. They just didn't eat the right things, plus we probably have a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol. But they were uninformed when they were younger, and thought looking slender and eating less, not better, was the goal.

I want to be healthy. I am naturally slim (but still fat in my mother's eyes, ha!), so this isn't really about looking a certain way.[/quote]

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