It's not your diet, it's gunehtucks huh? Just happened upon some interesting articles published to other subs, one shortly following the other. The correlation between the two couldn't be ignored.  From MSN. Apologies for the multi-page display of the article. I linked into page 4, where it discusses added sugar being stored as belly fat. The other pages provide info on how sugar wrecks your body, including reducing physical activity, doubling your risk of death from heart disease, and skin sagging. --So what's that about HAES and your diet not determining your health, butter gollums? From Nature.com. Check out this glorious quote from this scientific study "However, the rising incidence of obesity, which results in chronically elevated insulin levels, implies that insulin may also act in brain centres that regulate motivation and reward." --Fatties have elevated insulin, which feeds into their food-based reward behaviors. Which causes more eating, and more reward behavior, on and on and on... Planets love to try and point their grubby little sausage-fingers toward anything other than personal responsibility when it comes to their size; it must be caused by anything other than the constant shit they shovel into their maws.  Stop your squealing piggies, and face facts: you are responsible for your own bodies. You are the reason you can't lost weight, because you refuse to be realistic. Unless you're literally being force-fed, you have to put down the fork if you ever hope to look like a human being.  Putting your hands over your ears and shouting so you don't have to hear facts doesn't make those facts not true.