chellekitty
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ORIGINAL: LadyRainfire And weight (whether heavy or light) is genetics. . nope.. your weight is about how much food you put into your mouth and how many calories you burn from that food. The reasons that you over eat, the relationship you have with food, the attitude you have about your body may well be something that is nurtured in you... but as an intelligent self controlling adult ... your weight has nothing to do with your DNA. Scientists may well prove beyond doubt there is a gene that supresses the signal to your brain that you are full, but as an adult you can make the decision to be logical, you have eaten a meal, it was sufficient to fill you, deal with the hunger pangs.. lose the weight Until you can control and take responsibility for your relationship with food... you will always have a battle with your weight .. I am over weight because I have a relationship with food that produces a negative outcome...its comforting to eat, I grew up in family where the social focus was feeding times, feeding people is demonstrating love ..more food...more love. I eat when I am lonely, bored, frightened or upset. Now I realise this... I can stand in front of the fridge and make the decision...am I actually hungry.. or is my mind craving something that can be temporarily replaced with the feeling of a full stomach. Understanding that about myself, and accepting it,and learning to deal with it, has been one of the single most freeing things that has happened to me in my adult life. you and half the medical world think like this...and i am so glad they did not do a gastric by-pass on me when i was 8 years old...when i finally began eating like a normal person (ie, not starving myself) 2 and a half years ago my metabolism began repairing itself and i began to loose weight...it has been discussed on these boards over and over, and i am not picking on your specifically, but yours was the first post that mentioned this missinformed "fact"...since i have learned to eat more food, at least 1500 calories a day i have gone from size 28 375lbs at my heaviest to a almost size 20 (just tried on jeans yesterday and i am also bloated - yay periods...) 280lbs....i have a lot of bone and muscle mass...and if i don't eat enough my metabolism goes "are we starving again? hold on to all the calories, don't burn anything, we don't know when we are going to eat again" and i gain weight... oh yea, and i ask appropriate questions that are easy for men to answer like "are these flattering?" they can say yes or no and i won't be offended...lol....and if my Owner lied to me and i found out...ya know...i used to be real hard assed about this...but i can now say that sometimes it is for my own good...like the "do you have money?" when i want something silly and he know's i am going to obsess on it if he tells me he has money and no i can't have it, so he just tells me he doesn't have money...and i've learned to shrug it off...i trust him...he is not going to do anything that harms me...in fact he is doing things that may be deceptive that benifit me in the end...so...i accept it... one to beam scotty chelle
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One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ~Albert Schweitzer
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