I used to be fat as a young kid and I have done my best to eat healthy and loose weight these days. I am looking so much better but I know it is harder if your were fat for most of your life. Most of my family are fat/obese. I hate that. It is their fault for eating so unhealthy. My brother is the only other person in my family that is the less fatter. But I have another brother and a sister. He is very strict about his diet and he has been helping me. I wish my parents had giving me much healthier food when I was growing up. I come from a Latino family and although the food is good and tasty, most of it is just bad calories. And we tend to eat bigger portions than we should. So do you blame your parents/family for your bad eating habits or you blame yourself?

You can blame your parents for an unhealthy childhood yes, but once your an adult then its your own responsibility to be healthy

I agree with what you said mostly. I also come from a Latino family and I just naturally have "fat" genes but I work to stay healthy.

I blame my mom for being underweight because she has a very high metabolism but I'm fine with it

Kind of yes kind of no. My parents would give me soda to drink every single day, and also give us ice cream as dessert every single night, and also didn't get us involved in any sports, and I definitely feel like that contributed. However I also know that it's partly my fault for choosing to eat and drink the things my parents put in front of me, so I can't blame them 100%, that would be lazy of me

Lazy parenting results in fat kids, yes.

I kind of blame society in general, and also myself for being lazy

Underage: The parents. They children have no income.

Anything past that and it looks more like the person themself is to blame.

This.

I think for the most part. Parents and family eating lifestyle is to blame. I see too many fat children around these days. It is sad. Cause it will be hard for many of them to lose that fat.

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Yeah I agree.

Obviously, if they don't buy them healthy food how the **** am I not supposed to be fat?

My mom use to feed me while i slept, she was for sure the reason my ass was fat as a kid

Thankfully, i developed a love for whole foods' salad bar and taking the stairs

Hm, interesting topic. I think I disagree with a lot of the posts with arbitrary ages for when the blame shifts, because your upbringing is so influential and most people won't be able to break habits formed. But I also don't like the idea of blaming your parents, for me endorsing the idea seems like enabling people to have an easy excuse for not taking responsibility of their health. So even though, yeah you're (general you, not you you) parents ****ed up and set you up for failure, the responsibility to handle it is now yours.

Plus, it's not so much your parents', but theirs and so on. For example, the latino diet (specifically Mexican since that's the one I've read about) has not been able to adapt to modern day food consumption and the adapting it is making is just taking in negative traits. Plus genetics play a sizable (yet not major) part too. I think I'll just steal Guernica's Kind of yes kind of no.

To an extent it could be the parents of the child's fault, but at a certain age they could make some sort of income if it's really that big of an issue to them. Sometimes that's all the parents can afford to fed their children though so.

I'm Latino too but all of my family is healthy, except my mom who is considered overweight.

All of us are extremely active(except my mom), we love playing soccer or anything out in the backyard and when we were young we would always hangout outside.


So no, I don't believe you should blame your family unless they were stopping you from being active. Everyone from a very young age knows what it takes to be healthy, they teach it all the time in school.