Keep moving your body and mind. Eat a right amount your body needs. No need to over eat.

Anonymous wrote:My grandparents were all dead by the time I was eight years old. My husband's one grandmother served nothing but meat and starch, and the other is basically anorexic.

So no thanks to this advice. I'm happy with modern advances in food thought.

So your grandparents were born in 1880s?? Like the Japanese guru's on longevity and diet?

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Anonymous wrote:Most vegetarians I know are fat.

Every fat person I know eats meat.

My husband and child are both vegetarians, and both overweight.
I'm not vegetarian, and I'm the only normal weight one in the house.

All of this is anecdotal.

Anonymous wrote:My grandmother used to dip her veggies in a huge tub of mayo as a snack. She kept a can of bacon grease in the fridge. She was very slim but certainly not active or healthy. I think maybe I will stick with my veggies dipped in Greek yogurt and skip the lard.

I do miss her terribly though - she lived to be 96!

She was obviously doing something right.

My grandparents were all dead by the time I was eight years old. My husband's one grandmother served nothing but meat and starch, and the other is basically anorexic.

So no thanks to this advice. I'm happy with modern advances in food thought.

I think it's more about staying away from processed/ prepackaged food than meat eaters versus vegetarians. Both can be healthy, but of course vegetarians must be more diligent about getting adequate protein.

Funny, MIL is very conservative - makes enough food for maybe (!!!) six people when she is serving 16; served the kids Spaghetti O's and hardly ever cleaned her house; worked part time for a couple years, maybe.

My side's women worked full time and ran a tight ship - fresh grown foods, and plenty of it, for everyone and whomever stopped by - just one example. To think that I grew up thinking everyone's family worked as hard as my side.

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Anonymous wrote:Most vegetarians I know are fat.

Every fat person I know eats meat.

Every skinny-fat person I know (as in, literally can't do a push-up and has zero muscle tone) doesn't.

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Anonymous wrote:My grandmother used to dip her veggies in a huge tub of mayo as a snack. She kept a can of bacon grease in the fridge. She was very slim but certainly not active or healthy. I think maybe I will stick with my veggies dipped in Greek yogurt and skip the lard.

I do miss her terribly though - she lived to be 96!

I think that is why the advice to go further back if you are not that old. hat did you great, great, great grandmother eat and do in her lifetime?

As far as I know, my great-great-great-grandmother lived in a fancy-ass house in China, with bound feet, being waited on by servants.

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My sister and I often comment how little we ate while growing up. Example at the family dinner table: One pork chop each, 2 sides of veggies per person-- about a cup of each. There were no leftovers. Dessert about 2x per week. We loved our veggies. They were the bulk of the meal, not the meat. If there was a extra pork chop my dad got it. No one was hungry. No one was fat. A snack after dinner was an orange. We moved constantly.

I remember, as a teenage boy, being constantly hungry because my clueless mom always served what seemed like an adequate amount of food TO HER - e.g., one lousy pork chop - not even imagining I was growing and needed lots more.

The only good thing about veggies is that they are not ultra-processed crap. I mostly eat meat, and I assure you I am not fat.

OMG! Is your mom the Burger King Lady?!

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Anonymous wrote:Most vegetarians I know are fat.

In my immediate adult friend group, the vegetarians are the ones with -- by a large margin --- the lowest body fat. There is the friend who does a lot of yoga, the friend with the long daily bike commute, and me -- the powerlifter who loves having abs as a middle aged dad. The meat eaters all tend to eat and drink a lot more than we do.

+1. Anyone who thinks their social circle is representative of a universe of people isn’t too bright.

Anonymous wrote:I sure do miss my grandmother! She lived to be 86. She used to go get a bucket of KFC with biscuits and mashed potatoes and gravy and cole slaw whenever family was coming to visit.

I haven't eaten KFC in many years, but I sure do miss my grandmother!

My grandmother also went and bought a bucket of KFC whenever family visited! I miss her too.

Anonymous wrote:Most vegetarians I know are fat.

Every fat person I know eats meat.

I sure do miss my grandmother! She lived to be 86. She used to go get a bucket of KFC with biscuits and mashed potatoes and gravy and cole slaw whenever family was coming to visit.

I haven't eaten KFC in many years, but I sure do miss my grandmother!

Anonymous wrote:

My sister and I often comment how little we ate while growing up. Example at the family dinner table: One pork chop each, 2 sides of veggies per person-- about a cup of each. There were no leftovers. Dessert about 2x per week. We loved our veggies. They were the bulk of the meal, not the meat. If there was a extra pork chop my dad got it. No one was hungry. No one was fat. A snack after dinner was an orange. We moved constantly.

I remember, as a teenage boy, being constantly hungry because my clueless mom always served what seemed like an adequate amount of food TO HER - e.g., one lousy pork chop - not even imagining I was growing and needed lots more.

The only good thing about veggies is that they are not ultra-processed crap. I mostly eat meat, and I assure you I am not fat.

I know, right? It makes me really sad when people underfeed teenage boys. I used to cook myself a second dinner pretty often because my mom would cook portions sized to her hunger, and my brother and I would be starving two hours later. As a teenager, I could eat around 7 pork chops. I was swimming 3 hours a day during swim season and running 2 hours a day during track, so I needed the fuel.