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My mother had an accident!<\/h2>\n

My mother recently had an accident where she fell.\u00a0 She had emergency surgery and told that she could not move her arm for one whole month and it will probably take over six months to heal.<\/p>\n

My 94-year-old grandmother lives with my mother.\u00a0 Now, my mother could not only take care of herself but she couldn’t take care of my grandmother.\u00a0 My aunt and I took weekly turns of taking care of them.\u00a0 I drove the 3 1\/2 hour drive and stayed the first week.<\/p>\n

One of the major things that I did was to cook for them.\u00a0 My grandmother has a strict timeline for eating her meals.\u00a0 Everything must be fixed by 8:00 am, 12:00 noon and 5:00 pm.\u00a0 If you are late she will let you know.<\/p>\n

As I was fixing meals and making plates I noticed something. The amount of food each person requested was a small amount.\u00a0 Even my stepfather had smaller portions.\u00a0 What I mean is, I would give them the small amount of each food they wanted to eat and they would come away saying they were so full.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Wait a minute!\u00a0 I had my plate loaded with a lot more food and sometimes I had seconds.<\/p>\n

I eat more than everyone else!<\/h2>\n

I realized something about myself.\u00a0 My portions were almost restaurant size.\u00a0 Texas-size portions!\u00a0 I had no idea.\u00a0 \u00a0I was eating way too much food.\u00a0 What seemed normal to me was actually not normal or healthy.\u00a0 Overeating leads to being overweight.\u00a0 I am now way more overweight than my mother.\u00a0 Back in the day, we were about the same size.\u00a0 I am now double my size since then.<\/p>\n

According to Psychology Today,<\/em> The amount of food we eat now for our own single meal used to feed a family of four.\u00a0 We now eat foods stuffed with other foods and food sitting on top of other foods.\u00a0 We eat more than we need and yet we still don’t feel full.<\/p>\n

Do you overeat?<\/h2>\n

There doesn’t seem to be only one answer on why anyone overeats.\u00a0 It could be a habit or it could be stress or it could be leptin resistance just to name a few.<\/p>\n

So what happens to your stomach when you overeat?\u00a0 According to M.D. Anderson:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n