Again – I’ll preface this post with I am NOT a doctor, nor am I a nutritionist. I am however someone who’s favorite question is “why?” I was a typical Tomboy, thank GOD that was before what’s going on in the world today. I played football and baseball and scrapped with the boys growing up. Of course that also means I got tied to a tree by a neighborhood kid playing “cowboys and indians” When my brother saw what was going on he jumped the fence and beat the kid silly. At 4 I started taking dance class, tap, jazz and ballet for 14ish years. All of this to say, I was a VERY active kid. If there was a pool around in the summer I was in it and you’d probably have to drag me out of it.
I was also an INSANELY picky eater. My mother tried desperately to break me of it, but I was also stubborn/bullheaded. In elementary school she made lobster one night and asked me to eat 1 bite. She had hot dogs already made for me, if I took that one bite. I went to bed without super. This has carried forward into adulthood. As a kid my folks had to find fast food restaurants that had hot dogs because I wouldn’t eat hamburgers, I didn’t eat pizza until high school.
Dad LOVED to grill so he did nearly every night. I remember having steaks so large that we’d have to eat part of it before we could even get sides on the plate. We were very much a meat and veggies family. The occasional lasagna or spaghetti, but for the most part very traditional.
During I think 8th grade home economics, I had to cook dinner for the family from a cookbook and honestly I loved cooking but finding something new to cook that everyone would eat was a little challenging (me being the main problem.) As I recall I chose “Noodle Pudding” though all I really remember about it is it was spaghetti noodles and hot dogs….lol
But I digress…as always, the point I was trying to get to is I never understood, when I wasn’t an over eater, how I was so “chubby.” Looking back on pictures from the time, I wasn’t “fat” I just wasn’t a stick like the other girls. It wasn’t really until being called fat all my childhood, that in college I really BECAME fat.
When I began to analyze all of this towards the end of 2021, I realized the coordination of big food, big pharma and the medical “establishment.” Now I’m sure there are doctors that mean well, but according to some of my research, they aren’t really taught much about nutrition in medical school unless they specifically seek that out. All of the chemicals, the trying to make animals fatter to produce more, has dramatically changed the nutrients we’re able to access for our bodies. Don’t take my word for it, do your own research.
This is why I started eating ONLY grass-fed/finished, pastured, meat and eggs. I’ve never been super “tuned in” to my body so I can’t say I feel different after changing my diet, but I know I am down nearly 50lbs, and I’ve increased my exercise exponentially, without really feeling like I’m doing anything “extraordinary.”