But I care about this community, and we need to be healthy- not just in it for the weight-loss.

I watched Fed-Up on Netflix last night. It didn't tell me anything new, but man did it make me see just how hard the country makes it to even learn how to be healthy. I actually shed tears by the time it got to explaining how children are their main targets, how much more fucked up can you get?

As a child, I was overweight. I broke a damn desk in 5th grade math class. I remember that day.. I'm going to be 23 this month and that day has never been shaken off. I was in a similar boat as the children on that documentary. My parents, while not even near obese were chubby, had me young and didn't know much about nutrition. When my Mom started Weight Watcher's, I did it with her. We formulated points for me. I was only maybe 14. It changed our lives. I remember coming back to school one year and people were non-stop telling me how great I looked. It only continued as my parents educated themselves, which in turn helped me know "good" from "bad."

Today things are..very different for all of us in my family. My Grandma refuses to eat over a certain gram of sugar a day and goes through regular periods of no sugar. My Mom and Dad hardly will eat anything processed, will not eat pork, have a giant garden, and buy respectfully raised meat. They also try to keep their sugars through foods lower because they are very social and drink quite often..but my mom drinks vodka water so erm..

I'm so thankful they took the time to change our life's. I am so thankful that eating healthy eventually led me to lifting. I don't do what they do for diet, I follow flexible dieting, but we have all found something sustainable for our lives and I just wish and hope every family struggling with this, every person struggling with this, will eventually find the information they need to really learn about food and how to be healthy for their own life.