hw 4 food and family

Food habits in my family have mainly not changed. The family members i speak to and socialize with all had one thing in common and that is that we were all mainly raised by my grandmother. In my grandmother's house, there are almost an unlimited amount of food options. From fruits and vegetables, to cereals and junk foods. all you have to do is open up that closet door and pick and choose. My family always jokes that her house is like a supermarket and if a world disaster were to happen we would all lock ourselves in her closet. MY grandfather goes food shopping every single day. there has not been a day where he doesn't have a supermarket bag in his hand. With all of this food surrounding everyone growing up in that house, obesity became a problem. My grandmother would feed us all unhealthy things. I remember at about the age of 3 i was drinking about 2 nutriment shakes a day. I would also eat from the time i woke up, to the time my mother came to pick me up. I got really heavy at a young age, and obviously i'm not so ripped up now either which means that my old eating habits are still present in my everyday life.

its not only me who is like this. everyone that was raised in that house, from me to my brothers, to my mom and aunts, all of them grew up unhealthy in that house. It was like a disease. If you didn't eat in that house, you were a bad child, now its if u don't eat in that house, you are a mean person. Things really don't change. Mostly everyone ho grew up in that house and is older now is overweight and maybe being at my grandmother's house made an impact on that. I mean its not all her fault, she showed us a path, but after that it was our decision to continue on that path. i wonder what would i be like if i grew up with only my mother caring for me. how different would i be?

i spoke to my mother about why our grandmother is like that. She told me that back in her days, there wasn't a lot of food. my grandmother grew up poor and her mother was very strict with the food she gave out and there was a lot of discipline in her household. i also feel like through the food my grandma gives us, it is her way of connecting with us. it gives us a reason to go over to her house, and it works.

The main reason why i think that the way i eat now compared to the way i ate before is so different is because now i really go for snacks instead of big meals. i mean it is sort of like the same thing in a way, but i rather eat snacks. nowadays, i get my own money and i usually go out on my own so i can eat whatever and whenever i want to, which now puts me in control of my own life and my choices.