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Go ahead and spell it out

I fast quite a bit.

People these days have made eating a hobby “foodies” they call themselves. Some cannot miss a single meal without having a complete meltdown.

I have the same issue with having to replace too big clothes and have found that for women anyway, the small sizes get snapped up.

I weigh 100 lbs. This is not an unusual weight for a woman pre WW2. Now there are so many large people it is disturbing.

I get the pre WWII comment. I was born during the war but I well remember how much smaller people were in the fifties compared to today. A 180 lb. man was considered a big guy back then, now he is considered small. Anyone too young to know about how it was can just watch some movies made prior to 1970 or read some comments made back then. I was looking up some information on “Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs” for our grandsons once and ran across an article written about them back in the sixties, the writer remarked that “Sam” had a short career as a boxer and actually talked about how BIG he was, six foot one and 165 lbs! That would mean that if he hit you it would really hurt! That is almost exactly the size my father was in those days, he was considered a big man, today he would be ignored as a skinny, scrawny looking man of slightly above average height. I myself am six four and just over 250, muscular, not fat. I am considered a very big man now but back in the fifties or sixties I would literally have stopped traffic. I had an uncle who was born in 1899 and was even bigger than I am and back in those days people were actually awestruck at the sight of him. Now when I go to the gym it is common to see one or more men who are taller and bigger than I am.

Sounds familiar :) Now both my DH and I LOVE Good food, but neither of us were ever real every morning breakfast sorts, and then a few years back while on vacation we realized that we really were in no hurry for dinner if we had a big lunch... In our regular home routines, he may still pick up a light lunch while at work, but I generally just hold off until he gets home, (whatever time that ends up being), and then we have a late yummy dinner.

What is really is amazing how little food our bodies actually need! I was kinda worried when I started to fully move over to a one meal a day routine, since when I was much younger I would get shaky if I didn’t eat
for too long, but over the years that happened less and less, and I finally
realized why - that it was a blood sugar issue. When I ate/eat too many
simple carbs with not enough fat or protein to slow it down, my
metabolism just blows right through it and I end up left hanging by a very
jangly thread : o

Nowadays, I try to stick to proteins, good fats, veggies and feel great, with some occasional complex carbs thrown in, although grains, as much as I love them, sure don’t seem to love me : /

Back on the thread topic ; )This whole push with various governmental agencies moving to control what food I want to eat, and shutting down sources of information REALLY steams my shorts..... because how I
choose to take care of myself and my family, and what food we want to
put into our bodies to me is the ultimate in personal freedom, and is
NONE of their business.

Grrrrrr.

May God give us strength.
Tatt
May God