| If we look back to my "early years" I realise that I | | | | enough, food on the table and in the house. For her |
| had problems with my weight as long as I can | | | | having some overweight was not bad, it was |
| remember. I was a chubby during Kindergarden, I | | | | necessary to survive the next war. For sure, she did |
| was a chubby child in school and I was chubby | | | | not want to hear anything about appetite control. |
| teenager. Never really on the fat side of life, but | | | | Quite contrary, I remember her saying many times |
| always with a little bit too much weight on my bones. | | | | that I should be happy that I have such a "healthy" |
| Appetite control or healthy weight loss were never | | | | appetite. Healthy weight loss, although obviously |
| even discussed in our family and, as far as I know, in | | | | never mentioned, would have been an oxymoron for |
| other families. Both my parents liked a good meal, | | | | her. |
| both did not count calories and the portions were | | | | Years, actually decades, later I do not have a hard |
| always more than enough. | | | | time to understand her and I certainly hold no grudge. |
| You have to understand, we are talking the sixties | | | | Experiencing and surviving two big wars and bringing |
| and early seventies. Weight loss or even healthy | | | | children through the second, certainly was not an |
| weight loss was not discussed amongst people, the | | | | easy life and things like diet, appetite control or |
| medias were not yet aware of health and weight | | | | healthy weight loss, were never even crossing her |
| issues. Nobody spent a thought about appetite | | | | mind, because everybody was basically trying to stay |
| control, because now was really the first time after | | | | alive and not to starve. |
| World War II, where almost everybody had enough | | | | Be that as it may, during my childhood and my first |
| to eat, the economy was recovering and for most | | | | teenage-years I was on the heavy side and not |
| people and families the life got better and better. | | | | even unhappy about it. Most other kids were the |
| Nobody wanted to control anything and for sure | | | | same as I was, I always had friends. Never being the |
| nobody was interested in appetite control, because | | | | most popular kid, never being unpopular. Just running |
| eating was just too nice. | | | | with the majority and within this majority, nobody |
| The biggest blame, if one really wants to use the | | | | discussed, or thought about, diets, appetite control, |
| word, was to put on my granny. For her it was | | | | or healthy weight loss. |
| important to have always enough, better more than | | | | |