Important note: I am not saying that obesity/being overweight itself is genetic, but the drive to overeat is.
I am going to mention two youtubers but please keep comments on the topic.
Kiana Docherty and Alivia D'Andrea both admitted to fitting the criteria for binge-eating-disorder. While partaking in their disordered eating they of course like everyone else in that situation would try to find justifications and excuses for their behaviour, but then had to admit that what they were doing was wrong.
Where I disagree is the question of 'willpower'. Pretty much everyone who tries to recover from binge-eating/over eating and is doing well in the current time will try to say it's all about willpower, including Docherty and D'Andrea.
What makes it worse is that both of them came out and said that they could not find a trigger for their disordered eating other than the availability of a lot of cheap, unhealthy food and their 'lack of willpower'. Docherty said she was always an overweight child, teen and young adult until she decided to change. D'Andrea said her Asian family expectations to be thin made her feel worse about her weight gain but did not trigger the overeating because she always had it.
D'Andrea's binge-eating looks to have been pretty bad. I was never as bad as her but still fit the criteria. But what's common between all of us is the inability to feel full and satisfied after appropriate portions of food and adjust food-consumption later on in the day to compensate for how much we've eaten before.
'Intuitive eating' just doesn't work with someone like me. It's not even entirely about willpower, it's about strategy and basically turning healthy living into a full-time job. Unless I'm vigilant and strict with what I eat, plan my meals, do my best to track calories, and employ many other strategies such as being careful with what food I buy and making sure not to have packets of things in the house, it would be impossible for me to stay at a healthy weight. I can't say that stress had nothing to do with my eating patterns in the past, but it really scared me when I realised that I just have no breaks many times when it comes to food, stressed out or not. I could literally binge on Greek salad (the healthiest meal on earth) simply because I have a big portion in front of me, until I'm almost painfully full.
In addition, many processed foods are basically drugs to me, coming from someone who's never tried a single drug. It takes an immense amount of actual willpower for me to stop at 4 biscuits with my tea, and I don't understand how many other people can stop at 2 or 1 with no problem and no craving for more. I also got scared recently because I bought a local pastry for myself, where the typical portion for locals is 2 or 3 of them (which is not healthy), and I realised that if I had bought more I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from eating 2+.
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