Science

I'll stop that rant to start a different one and this one will be quicker. The best meal I've ever had in my life was at a farm to table restaurant.

I was out visiting this place with my girlfriend at the time and she saw this little restaurant by the side of the road and we decided to stop in.

It was fairly pricey but reading their menu they mentioned that all of the food that they were serving there that day that could be grown locally was harvested this morning and prepared for you today.

I spent $100 for the two of us to eat. I had meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans and it was $40.

I thought that for $40 I would get a gargantuan portion and instead it was actually a very small portion compared to what I would normally eat. The serving of meatloaf was about the size of a deck of cards. The mashed potatoes were about the size of my fist, and I probably got maybe 25 green beans.

I was somewhat upset because my expectations based off of my normally available foods would say that a dinner of meatloaf would cost less than $20 and would fill the plate but there was a lot of plate available and visible on this $40 serving.

But, I said fuck it we ball worst case I can go and get some other fast food elsewhere if I still feel hungry afterwards.

And let me tell you, I honestly cannot remember the last time I was so satisfied with a meal. The taste was not twice the price worth but when I finished eating I kind of felt tingly.

My stomach was sending waves of pleasure through my body, it was a sensation that I have never felt before.

My stomach was telling my entire body that I was full, and I was satisfied, and that I had eaten exactly the right amount of food and that feeling continued for the remainder of the day.

We had this meal at like 1:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday and I did not want to eat again for the rest of the day.

The freshness of the food. The nutritional quality of that meal was so far above the available nutritional quality of any other food that I can personally locate that I got physically high off of eating fucking meatloaf.

I am not rich.

I cannot afford to eat $40 meals for every meal. I do not have access to a farm to provide me with fresh vegetables to eat every single day.

But that one experience highlighted to me how important nutrition is when fighting obesity.

That is why I feel confident in saying that obese people are not obese because they just love eating so much and they are fat little piggies that can't control themselves.

I feel confident in saying that the grand majority of obese people who eat the Western diet are obese because the food that they have available does not have the nutritional profile that their body is craving, and because of that, their bodies compel them to continue eating until they meet their nutritional baselines.

If that is the case the best solution for obesity is to first nourish the body and then allow them to eat whatever they want on top of that.

And you can say it's all calories in calories out that you want but not every calorie is the same because once again, if they were, how can you starve to death with a belly full of rabbit meat?