Yup, you're exactly right. I keep hearing, "we eat so much more than we do in the past", whereas in reality we eat much less. Who eats three squares a day anymore? It's coffee for breakfast, a salad or soup or sandwich for lunch, and the only square meal is dinner. If you look at the meals people used to eat in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, it's amazing how much they chowed down.
Ruby Tuesday's tried putting nutrition information in their menus for a short while. It was very illuminating. Basically, the steamed vegetable platter withOUT the mashed potatoes had more calories than the 6 ounce sirlion. As long as you don't order more than 16 ounces, and you don't order a T-Bone, you'll lose weight eating steak and salad. Skip the roll. You'll also lose weight eating scrambled eggs & bacon at Denny's.
I appear as a glutton to other people, chowing down fatty foods, simply because I am educated about my food choices. I look like I'm one of those lucky skinny people who can eat whatever they want and not gain weight, but in reality I have inherited hypothroidism.
hyper not hypo