how should parents motivate their kids to stay healthy???

I know, what is it about ketchup? I can't stand the stuff.

Some things I was very impressionable about as well...thank goodness. Like drugs and alcohol. I never got into it and I took my parents' word for it that those things were bad.

My relationship with food was strongly influenced by my childhood, obviously. Most of my memories are of never having enough food. In middle school I had cheese sandwiches for lunch because we couldn't afford lunch meat, and if we had breakfast it was a pretty huge event. So when I would eat with other people, I'd eat like it was going to disappear! I still have problems with portions. I feel like I need to eat everything in front of me or else it's a waste...