I thought of another one too: when we DO eat a meal, our
meals are really nice. Like, roast chicken with carrots and
dressing and cranberry sauce, with dessert. So when people
are over and accuse us of "not eating" I can point to our
plates and say with total accuracy ... this meal is more than
most people in the world eat all day. We are NOT starving!
BTW my daughter is in a health class now, and she expected
to get lambasted for her diet. She had to write down everything
she ate in one week and analyze it. She didn't write down the
times, just the food. The teacher said that in all the years she
has taught the course, she never had found a student before
whose diet she couldn't improve on. My dd is having problems
with some of the assignments though, like "avoid processed
food for one week". She's asking me what processed food she
CAN avoid, since she basically doesn't eat it and doesn't
like it. She does like to hoard it, interestingly enough, and
has been carrying around a can of unopened root beer for
some weeks now.
Also interestingly, my dd has a body that looks a lot like
one of those Greek statues, only stronger. She has that
"swimmer's build" you see on some professional swimmers:
wide shoulders and hips and lots of muscle. But she weighs
about 40 lbs more than the BMI charts say she should. I
was shocked when she told me. I'm not even sure now what
*I should* weigh, since I'm taller than she, same build, and
she weighs more than I think I should. So I'm going for
feeling good and feeling strong and getting a thinner waist.
And ditto about enjoying food. I used to live off "protein
drinks" and I was musing lately how absolutely horrible
those things taste. And they were really expensive. And
now I'm thinking: WHY did I spend all that money and time
on those things? And choke them down 3x a day?
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:25 AM, larutanbeauty
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> These are some great ideas! Yep...I'm overweight (about 70 pounds, but I'd feel good with
> losing about 30). Traditionally an emotional eater and obsessed with food.....but hating
> traditional diets where you end up not enjoying even one meal a day and (ironically)
> becoming more obsessed and consumed with food because you're eating 6 times a day.
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> But yes....great ideas! Thanks. :-)
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