On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 14

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Russian weightlifter lifting 100 kg. Bildquelle de.academic.ru
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Today: adapting to our surrouning: the tribal instinct: to look like the others is to be like the others

next: the big fraud part 1

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The others: our mirror. Or: the tribal instinct. Or: people like me. A fact we shouldn´t neglect is our wish to be like the others, not to stand out from the crowd.

If individuals of our gender and age have a certain exterior, we unconsciously start to try to look like the others of our kind.

A fact is that far above half of the people around us is carrying an above average BMI which comes along with a quite impressive body volume. We start to adjust our own exterior to what we are observing.

To be like the others is mimicry, is solidarity, fellowship, is being out of the line of fire of defamatory statements concerning the fact that we don´t match in terms of our exterior. Very often it is emphazised that thin people are bashing thick people.

Which may be true in a surrounding of thin people. But sometimes we are living in a world of people who look like bears, mountains and mammoth trees. So we start to adjust.

The wish to be like people around us is a very very strong motive for the choice of our exterior and mustn´t be underestimated.

Even if we think we´d like to have a healthy BMI, the wish to be like people around us outshines this theoretical tenet by far. So, if we think about our BMI, we really have to stop, sit down and listen deep inside which exterior we really wish to represent.

If the very deep wish to look as big and impressive as possible is our driving momentum we haven´t an ice cube´s chance in hell to achieve a BMI our regulatory circuit system would welcome.

Tomorrow: the big fraud.