watching people stuff themselves at a chinese buffet

So true!  When I was growing up, my bean pole brother would gorge on all the snack foods and blame me.  Have you ever seen how much food a skinny teenage boy can put away?  My parents believed him pretty often though.  

There is a chinese type buffet near where I live that I hit all the time...Sure they have fried food, but they have a TON of healthy broiled food (as well as sushi and hibachi grill!)

Yes some people eat a lot... Many people don't. To be honest...Even though I DID eat a lot when I was heavy, I really don't look at what people eat now...I worry more about what *I* eat, not what you eat.

Not all of us got obese because we ate McD's and tons of Twinkies every day...Some of us did honestly get obese because we got heavy from meds (I was on prednisone, wheelchair bound and couldn't exercise, and so it created a vicious circle...) and inactivity or disease.

Yes, nearly all of us ate the wrong things or to much, but I really don't (or try not to...) judge others. All of us have been judge by others and I think to myself, that someone who is eating a lot or obese, may be like I was...Overweight from depression meds, or prednisone or autoimmune disease or who knows what.

The ONLY thing I do often (in my mind) want to do is shout from the rooftops to all how much I LOVE my RNY and how it saved my life (literally!) and encourage others to study if WLS is right for them... I don't of course. It is their choice, and until I was ready to have WLS anyone who would have "preached" it to me, would have been ignored.

Congrats on your journey and sucesses.
Warmly,
Jackie

I find the show man vs food disturbing, the portion size just makes me sick to even think about.  Honestly when I go out I don't really look at what other people eat, I don't want them checking out my plate so I definately don't look at theirs unless of course its someone eternally thin eating mounds of food and then I just wanna smack them and steal their metabolism.  lol