Fat Welsh men & women

I think there is often more to it than simply over eating. I'm a BBW. I spent most of my life dieting to try to conform to society's norm. My mum took me to the doctors when I was 8 years old and he gave me diet pills (which at that time were speed or speed related). I became very hyperactive I continued to diet into my teens and adult life. At one point I lived on one apple and one slice of bread each day. Oddly people kept telling me how well I looked when actually I was incredibly ill. What they meant was that I was size 12.

One day (at the age of 47) I woke up and thought enough is enough. I decided to eat normally but healthily as best I can. The weight piled on because my body was, and I think still is, in famine mode. I walk, cycle and dance but it has no affect on my weight. It's got worse in the last year as I've had to spend more time in the house and due to this I'm less active.

Food is more than nutrition to some of people. It's a comfort or a way of punishing yourself. I go through periods of starving, eating properly or comfort eating depending on how well or ill I am.

I'm not saying this is the case for everyone but it does help to explain why some people have weight issues.

PS don't eat chips though. Haven't liked them since they stopped being cooked in animal fat.

I eat high fat foods and I'm not overweight. It's not about the fat per se, it's about how much (of everything) you eat. I agree with absent in being baffled as to how people get as overweight as the example given. I can only put it down to low self esteem and depression. Anyone who had a decent sense of self value would do something before their weight problem got so excessive. It is very sad.

I do remember that when we went on courses in Wales, there was always the usual buffet accompanied by a massive bowl of chips...
More seriously, I know that my cousin who lives deep in rural Wales says that her neighbours eat massive quantities of fried food and sweet things, are fine all the time they are working on the land and then pile the weight on when they stop.
I would guess that overall, it is about poverty, unemployment, low-cost sweet and fatty food and poor eating habits.