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smileforme50 -> RE: I saw myself (2/5/2014 1:57:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: shiftyw
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I've been thinking about this.
I just...both...hate how I look and hate my very unhealthy relationship with food/eating from years of worrying about how I look, I resent eating so much sometimes I just wish I didn't have to.
It causes lots of backsliding, cause when I do one thing well...like if the weight loss is going well...that means how I feel about food is likely going miserably. Its a hard balancing act to master, and I can only assume its going to take me half a lifetime to feel ok about both my body, and my feelings towards what I put in it.
Kirata asked some really relevant questions though. So I think if you start to examine those within yourself you might get somewhere.
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I think what a lot of people in our society don't understand is that for a lot of people, the relationship they have with food is very similar to an addiction. but it can't be treated like one. They don't understand that with things like alcohol and drug addiction, the addict is encouraged and expected to eliminate those substances and habits from their lives completely, but you can't do that with food, and people don't realize this. Trying to swap out bad eating habits for good ones is like telling a drug addict that they MUST have ONE and ONLY ONE snort of cocaine every day. As difficult as it is, it is still a hell of a lot easier to train the addict to say "no" 100% of the time than it is to telll them...."Well you really need to cut down, but you can't live without it...."
This is why a lot of people find it easier to just starve themselves when they want to lose weight. Just like with drugs and alcohol, it's a lot easier for some people (mentally anyway) to never put a crumb of food in their mouth than it is to have to pick and choose and "control" themselves. As shiftyw says above...it is a "balancing act"
I think this is what really irks me the most about how our culture sees and treats overweight and obese people. For some reason, there is a lot more sympathy and patience with drug addicts and alcoholics than there is with overweight people.
Addendum:
I don't know if any of you watch "The Biggest Loser"...I don't, but I just caught this on Yahoo...
http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-the-biggest-loser--season-15-winner-is%E2%80%A6--photos-073035199.html?vp=1
This woman was told she needed to lose weight....so she lost weight....but now they're saying she's too skinny.
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