“Better just polish this off, then it won’t tempt me” “Better finish this off so it doesn’t go to waste” I used to say this all the time … I even had a phrase “If it’s going to waste, might as well be MY waist” Yeah, guess how well that worked out for me. But, I know … the pain of wasting food is REAL. But, hang on a sec here … what’s the definition of waste? “In EXCESS of what is NEEDED” … This is what I mean when I talk about treating your body like a trash compactor.…

Oof, there’s a loaded question if there ever was one. On the one hand, you have people arguing that “fat people just need to stop eating so much” (anybody who says that is an idiot). On the other hand, you have people who will argue that “people can’t help it, so we have to just accept it as the new normal”. It comes from a place of well-meaning “compassion”, yet the message is laden with a sense of helpless victimhood. And like any argument, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. What we know from a factual standpoint is that…