Doing one thing different

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Registered: 04-26-2003
Doing one thing different
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Sun, 04-25-2004 - 1:25pm
I am so frustrated with myself lately. I just don't know what the hell is wrong with me. I'm one of those people who has everything under control. I've been successful at everything I've ever tried-except managing my weight. I know it's not because I'm dumb or don't have willpower or don't understand nutrition. There's more to it than that. That's part of why I get so mad at thin people who make stupid remarks to overweight people like "why don't you try counting calories." Ugh.

Anyway, I've been counting calories and it is NOT working. I do well and get obsessive, then I get bingey and in the end (as with every diet) I end up gaining weight. So, I know I need to take a more behavioral strategy. So, I am hereby vowing to do only one thing different. From now on I am vowing to only eat when I am truly rumbly-tummy hungry. I know that making this one change will make a big difference to me. Even when I count calories or do ww or atkins I find myself eating when I'm not hungry because I have the calories or points or whatever. This behavior needs to end. So, I'm coming out here and stating that this is my new goal. Y'all can feel free to ask me how it's going because I probably need it.

Anyone else have one thing they really need to focus on?

Erin

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Registered: 04-19-2004
Fri, 05-07-2004 - 2:45pm
Spit water out your nose ?

Calories OUT !

* Swimming in Mel's nose water...Bark!*


Edited 5/7/2004 2:46 pm ET ET by barkingshark

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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 2:46pm
YEAH BUT AMY ...there are no calories in water
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Registered: 04-26-2003
Fri, 05-07-2004 - 2:54pm
Swimming in the nose water is wrong!

Blech, Amy! :)

Erin

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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 2:56pm
EWWWWWWWW TUMMY IS TURNING NOW


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Registered: 03-20-2004
Fri, 05-07-2004 - 4:02pm
Anyone who is/has been overweight gets that way the *same* way: by consuming more calories than the body uses as fuel. It goes without saying. For that matter, if a cat or a dog is overweight it's because that animal, too, has consumed more calories than its body uses as fuel. That's pretty basic stuff, really.
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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 4:09pm
Well, yes. But I think she's asking whether you have ever engaged in emotional eating or eating for reasons other than hunger.

Lord knows that's caused most of us to pack on a few pounds.

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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 4:11pm
Melodyeve,

The problem is, your argument is fallicious (and for the reasons I've already explained). Every single human gains weight or loses it dependent on caloric intake. There are no exceptions. If you (or anyone) wants to lose weight and be healthy you have to do three things: consume the proper number of calories in nutritious food, exercise, and keep it up. That's all there is to it. It's true that sometimes *some* people blame other factors (ie metabolism) but it's also true that, in every single case, if the obese individual is placed in a control environment where caloric intake is strictly monitored, that person will lose weight. And it's also true that metabolism is actually *faster* for an obese person than for many thin people; the heart simply has to work harder, and so do the other organs, just to keep the obese person alive. In short, an obese person burns more calories, and faster, than the non-obese. And if you are that interested, you can learn about how your body works from a simple biology book, or from the government's website, or any one of a number of places. But all human beings burn calories, and calories in and calories out determine how fat...or how thin...any given individual will be. End of story.

Forte

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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 4:52pm
Not TOO far from Ann Arbor- I grew up in Battle Creek!
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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 5:12pm
First of all, if you're going to continue to post your misinformation to me, please spell my name right. Second of all, fallicious isn't a word. If you meant fallacious, then by all means, spell that right, too. I know it's been mentioned that some think you talk down to us because you don't think we're at the same level you are. If you're going to use the big words, use them correctly. For reasons I, and others, have already explained, your argument is FALLACIOUS. INCONGRUENT TO ACTUAL LIFE. UNINFORMED. NOT ALLOWING FOR METABOLIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DIFFERENT PEOPLE. WRONG. I hope that's clear. Heaven knows that in 182 posts no one has been able to convince your clearly opinionated, though often unenlightened, mind of anything different than you're already saying. I don't expect to be the first to break through that barricade.

And you haven't answered me. What does your body of knowledge tell you about insulin resistance and hypothyroidism, and other things that affect metabolism?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 05-07-2004 - 5:14pm

A little too basic.

 

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