[Pu the Owl]

Originally posted by Redpyramidhead

People wonder why so many people are overweight in the U.S., but one thing they dont know is that we have restaurants all over the goddamn place! [...] The fact that I don't weigh 250 lbs, which would look oh so wonderful at my height of 5'5", is a miracle. Don't live here if you have money and little will power!

That's because people confuse genuine hunger with something else (gluttony included ). Most people eat when they don't need it at all. Some others eat food containing too much fat or calories (fast food restaurants offer almost exclusively this kind of food) and then they're not active enough to burn them all. Will power is the power to choose to not eat when you don't need it, or the power to choose healthy food.