Doing one thing different
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| Sun, 04-25-2004 - 1:25pm |
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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Calories OUT !
* Swimming in Mel's nose water...Bark!*
Edited 5/7/2004 2:46 pm ET ET by barkingshark
Blech, Amy! :)
Erin
Mom
Lord knows that's caused most of us to pack on a few pounds.
Mom
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
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?
A little too basic.
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