Your mom's philosphy on eating is how most of us were brought up - eat to your fill, regardless of whether what you're eating is a balanced diet or not. I have a very smallish body and although this is likely just my genetics, I want to attribute a part of it to malnourishment of some sort from when I was growing up. Even if this is not true for my case, I am sure it is for countless others, so I am 100% with you on schooling parents on the difference between eating and eating. Lol