[spokeshave]

I was at a bus stop in Amish country....and a whole family of overweight Amish folk were also waiting....while snacking on junk food, fries, processed cheese and soft sugar loaded drinks....meantime a family of local rednecks arrived in a big SUV.....all over weight....one lady had a leg brace...the other was sucking on an Oxygen tube and the males had well developed beer bellies.

so you are what you eat.

[RJS1950]

No, you are not what you eat, you are what your unique body metabolism makes of what you eat. I know many who eat anything they want and do not gain any weight or fluctuate more than +- 5 pounds. They are not overweight; good genes like some of my family is what I would suspect.

I ate anything I wanted in mass quantities up into my 50s and never had a weight problem; I weighed a puny 145 lb at 6ft when I entered the Marines, 165 lb when I graduated from boot camp and throughout my military career never went above 185 as I aged. After some abdominal surgery, I developed a belly roll and put on an extra 10-15 pounds but the doctor says no problem and I’m in good shape.