Our diet-obsessed culture

I don't know if food is the problem, but rather diet culture's and the billion dollar weight loss industry's demonization of food. You're born with the ability to eat intuitively, until you're told that what you want eat, when you eat, how much you eat, etc. is wrong or bad. You're taught that if your body is bigger as a kid, you need to be put on a diet, even though you eat the same or less as siblings or friends who eat the same or more. You begin to assign moral traits to food, good or bad, and restrict then binge, then restrict and binge again, or worse....purge. eventually you mess up your body's innate sense to eat, and spend money thst puts extremely large profits in the pockets of one of the hundreds or thousands of diet companies, or jump on the bandwagon of ABC and XYZ diet, until you can't make decisions that once came naturally. It's so depressing, and I've found myself in this awful cycle that has stolen my life, my money, my time, my pleasure, my self-confidence because I never thought I was good enough. I didn't think so when I was 120 pounds in my 20's and don't think now at 42 and 365 pounds. Diets are life thieves, but I'm learning to love my body for what it does now. I lost 85 pounds here in 2015 but gained it all back. Here's to more mindful eating, and less obsessive habits in tracking everything. Those are just my thoughts.