I doubt most people in this group/****, this situation, do that.

I think that fat people who have been fat awhile, are the most knowledgeable about nutrition, fitness, etc, than ANY skinny person I have ever met.

We know. We study this stuff, we try and live it....over, and over and over.

ha.

We are, (by my age anyhow ;) ) experts on the matter. ha, ;)

Isn't that funny? I feel like I've been an expert on weight loss and nutrition and exercise these past 10 fat years of my life while all the skinny people knew nothing. But I never talked about it because who's going to believe the fat chick? :dizzy:

But it's true! So many of those of us who are or have been fat really know an awful lot about nutrition and what ought to be done. We certainly do our homework.

I think it comforts people to believe this. Lots of people have said to me "I'd love to lose weight, but I just don't have time to exercise" and then pulled a muffin out of a bakery bag (or equivalent). If you believe that exercise is the end-all be-all of weight loss, then as long as you keep too busy to exercise, you can eat whatever you want. I've told people "It's really more about watching what you eat" and they flat out deny it, or don't want to hear it.

It's easier to justify not doing something than to justify doing something.