Gang, as a fat person who struggles with arthritis badly- 3 surgeries - read that chronic inflammation I found this quite interesting. I have no idea if it's true, but it sure sounds right lol - I hijacked it from another site I follow. The crazy thing is we have really been trying to clean up and eat healthy - the wife is one of those folks who just doesn't change, never has to watch what she eats, but not me.. I can look at food and pick up 3 pounds.

But cleaning out processed junk, refined sugars and such, eating real home made sour dough bread and exercising has sure made a big difference the last year. I've not lost much weight, but feel so much better and can actually walk a good bit now pain free. I've picked up a good bit of muscle tone from riding the bicycle so that's a plus. 8 miles this morning and it wasn't a struggle and no pain. I also did a 3 month ivermectin protocol in January and started on marshmallow root tincture and nascent Iodine. Been an absolute game changer for my back, hip and knee pain. FWIW.. Lot of us on here are getting older and stiffer, might give you all some relief..

But this excerpt blew me away when I read it.

The FDA didn't fail — it was never designed to protect you. Since 1958, the GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe) loophole has let food corporations self-certify their own ingredients as safe without a single federal review. The result? Thousands of chemicals, banned across the civilized world, remain legal in American food. This is not negligence. This is a business model that monetizes your slow sickness. The same companies that poison your bread, your soda, your snacks, and your kids' cereal fund the studies that exonerate them, write the regulations that shield them, and pay for the ads that gaslight you into believing this is normal. They engineered a food supply that hijacks your biology, overrides your satiety signals, and keeps you hooked, inflamed, and exhausted — then they call it "personal responsibility" when your body breaks. You are not weak. You are a survivor of a deliberate, decades-long assault on human health. So reject the lie. Read every label as if your life depends on it — because it does. If an ingredient is banned elsewhere, it doesn't belong in your body. Eat food that rots, not food that resists decay. Filter your water, cook on cast iron, refuse the thermal receipt, and for God's sake stop microwaving plastic. The system will not save you. So save yourself — loudly, stubbornly, starting right now.

what a damning commentary on our food supply and government..

Eating healthy is a big part of it. Eating too much of something is another. Personally I don't think every meal is supposed to feel like you just had a Thanksgiving feast. I feel like there are three feelings. Hungry, not hungry, and full. I think too many people are full too often. Its ok to be a little hungry throughout the day. When you eat stop eating when you aren't hungry anymore, not full. That's different. Its all consumed calories vs burned calories. If you make the calories you do consume healthy ones it helps with weight and makes you feel better too.

I really helped me watching that ALONE show and the weight they lose on that show. Just realize its a "lifestyle". Your body takes the shape it does and settles into the shape it is b/c of your daily routine you have over long periods of time. Its an average. If that routine is maintaining less calories then it should in turn maintain less size too.

The trick is getting your brain to believe you. You have to convince it that the "not full" does not mean "hungry" and that not being hungry and not being full is actually just right.

That "full" feeling and comfortableness after you've gorged yourself is just as addictive as everything else in life. I try not to get there too often. Good luck.

BTW, don't look to Mexico these days for well proportioned bodies. They are among the most obese people on the planet nowadays. On average.

Gang, as a fat person who struggles with arthritis badly- 3 surgeries - read that chronic inflammation I found this quite interesting. I have no idea if it's true, but it sure sounds right lol - I hijacked it from another site I follow. The crazy thing is we have really been trying to clean up and eat healthy - the wife is one of those folks who just doesn't change, never has to watch what she eats, but not me.. I can look at food and pick up 3 pounds.

But cleaning out processed junk, refined sugars and such, eating real home made sour dough bread and exercising has sure made a big difference the last year. I've not lost much weight, but feel so much better and can actually walk a good bit now pain free. I've picked up a good bit of muscle tone from riding the bicycle so that's a plus. 8 miles this morning and it wasn't a struggle and no pain. I also did a 3 month ivermectin protocol in January and started on marshmallow root tincture and nascent Iodine. Been an absolute game changer for my back, hip and knee pain. FWIW.. Lot of us on here are getting older and stiffer, might give you all some relief..

But this excerpt blew me away when I read it.

The FDA didn't fail — it was never designed to protect you. Since 1958, the GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe) loophole has let food corporations self-certify their own ingredients as safe without a single federal review. The result? Thousands of chemicals, banned across the civilized world, remain legal in American food. This is not negligence. This is a business model that monetizes your slow sickness. The same companies that poison your bread, your soda, your snacks, and your kids' cereal fund the studies that exonerate them, write the regulations that shield them, and pay for the ads that gaslight you into believing this is normal. They engineered a food supply that hijacks your biology, overrides your satiety signals, and keeps you hooked, inflamed, and exhausted — then they call it "personal responsibility" when your body breaks. You are not weak. You are a survivor of a deliberate, decades-long assault on human health. So reject the lie. Read every label as if your life depends on it — because it does. If an ingredient is banned elsewhere, it doesn't belong in your body. Eat food that rots, not food that resists decay. Filter your water, cook on cast iron, refuse the thermal receipt, and for God's sake stop microwaving plastic. The system will not save you. So save yourself — loudly, stubbornly, starting right now.

what a damning commentary on our food supply and government..

You guys do realize the extra years added to your life are not years when you are active and bullet proof. They get tacked on to the years you are in the nursing home. I try to eat healthy, but I also like to enjoy what I am eating so I do not have all the answers either. I do know what people older then me have said. Pete told me "Eat right exercise..... still die." And my 106 year old neighbor Lily said. " Living a long time is a blessing, but it is also kind of a curse." She passed away recently reading her obit where it said she buried all of her kids and a grand kid or two. I started to realize what she was referring to. G.