Loosing? Gaining weight

Summer comes and with the warm weather the wish to look better comes as well. I mean the wish to loose weight in particular.
Before I came to the US everyone made fun of me gaining weight. I was never a very skinny person but with luck my weight was always average. And I actually never cared, if there are 5 pieces of pie and I want to eat them, then I do. My family knows this habit of mine and thought that I would gain so much that I’d be hard to recognize after a couple of months. Isn’t that wonderful loving family?
But I never minded their saying, I was actually more their opinion, even though I thought betting about my weight was a little too much.
Well, it turned out that I actually didn’t gain that much weight. Maybe 2 pounds. I gained some fed and lost some muscle, but overall I’m very surprised. Of course my family still says that I look a bit chunkier, but how do they know, they just saw pictures and even if they would never admit to be wrong.
But why didn’t I gain weight? I think I just got lucky with the people I live here. I NEVER go to any fast food restaurant. I eat fruit salad.
Now so close to the end I realized something else. The worry to gain a ton of weight in the back of my mind prevented me of gaining weight. But didn’t I totally miss the American food culture then? Eating dinner at home every single night is not very American. And I realized that this was my lifetime opportunity to eat as much fast food as I wanted. To try out new things. I had one Dr. Peppers, went to Wendy’s, McDonald’s and KFC once in 10 months. I never ate lunch outside the cafeteria (okay, cafeteria food might be unhealthy enough).
So, now it the last weeks I kind of try to catch up on unhealthy food, but I think I am just too much gourmet to really enjoy fast food. Anyway, I definitely don’t swerve around it anymore, everyone clear in mind tries to loose weight at this time of the year and I just to the oppositeJ.