You Are What You Eat? (or watch?)

We often have the food network on at our house. It never really bothered me before. I enjoy learning new things about cooking (not that I'm any good at it) and new meal or preparation ideas. I really do. But last night I was sitting in the living room with Pierre and I realized, WE ARE SO FIXATED ON FOOD! Holy crap. I mean, it's ridiculous!
We watch food shows on MULTIPLE networks, talk about places we'd want to go and EAT, and all we discuss about our weekend plans is WHERE we are going to eat, and how we are going to get our shopping done. When I put it on paper (online, type it out etc.) it seems even more lame than it seems in my head. I know it is good to be educated about food, but obsessed with it? I don't think so. I think we have crossed the border into unnatural territory, and frankly, I don't know how to stop it.
We all have priorities, right? How can I take the two of us, two food focused people and focus our energies in a different direction?
There are a few factors in this that I do not believe are our fault. We are Jews. We are predisposed to being overweight by parents/grandparents. We have "depression" food syndrome, like my Nanny did where you ate all of your plate and more, and you didn't waste, because times were hard. I used to think it was just like a human garbage disposal complex, of wanting to keep eating,but i know who i learned it from. I'm not trying to blame, really, just to understand.
Now that I started a weight loss/don't die young/hoping not to get diabetes program, I am thinking more and more about food- how to portion it, how much i've had, how much I can have . . .it's extremely frustrating. It's like to one extent, I can obsess about it, and to the other I have to obsess about it or I will never change my health or habits.
Sometimes I wonder, and afraid for, in fact our children.Will they be so food focused? Will they have to go through the taunting and teasing and struggling that I went through? I hope for their sake they get their grandma (my mom's) genes and have lots of energy, a good work ethic, and athletic ability.
Actually I'd settle for one out of the three.