years. (not too lucky to reach my goal yet, maybe this year??) Today i am still of the mind set of: I can eat what I want, how much I want as long as I work out daily. Not the best of plans but it works somedays. I am in love with food of all kinds. Love cooking and always looking for new things to try, no matter how unhealthy the recipe is. I don't think being healthy or a healthy weight directly corralates to how one parents but it can effect it. If one is overweight and not happy about it, that will show in how they act with their children. less active play, sad, etc. My mom was overweight as long as I can remember, but always encouraged (and bribed) me to maintain a healthy weight. We even did weight watchers together when I was in college (I was successful, she was not). She had A LOT of health problems and all of her doctors told her losing weight would help them all, but she just couldn't get the weight off. She wound up dying at age 56 and I'm pretty sure the extra lbs took a few years off of her life. I think she knew that too and that's why she was always so concerned about my weight. I can see that now in hindsight. I've never been "overweight" but I've always had to try really hard to stay that way and the older I get