I've always a been an overweight/obese individual from my early child hood, adolescence, and into my adult years. Born and raised in the south, food was the center of my life. I grew up in a household where my mother, her siblings, and my grandmother went through The Great Depression . Since there was very little money for them survive on, they didn't waste anything. Even though I was born many years after the Depression ended, my family still remembered those days. When I didn't want to e...