We took overweight (he 70 lb, she 40 lb.) friends to our Rosarito Beach house for a couple of days. I told her in advance that we generally go out for early dinner to Puerto Nuevo and to El Nido for another dinner, and cook a late hearty breakfast at the house. Because the meals are so heavy and we don’t exercise while there, we skip lunch and snack on vegetables and fruit and low calorie items. She said she’d bring some snacks – she brought a 12 pack of coke, which he consumed in its entirety, 2 bags of various chips, a box of cookies, and a bag of mini candy bars. To our amazement and revulsion, they munched their way through most of that crap. After we crossed back into the U.S. and stopped at In ‘n Out for lunch, hubby and I each had a cheeseburger, split an order of fries, and drank plain ice tea. They each had a double-double with fries and a large milkshake.

There is a reason why people are fat and it is not genetics. You may be more naturally fleshy, but if you keep stuffing crap in your body and not exercising, you will become obese.