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25 September 2008

I know this is a diet site so I warn that the following information I'm going to give isn't pro diet mentality.

I am currently using fatsecret as a means of writing down food that I have and clocking my exercise, not as a means to obsess over every calorie and tell myself I will get to do this or that when I lose weight.
Dieting has become a national obsession, and the reported "Obesity Epidemic" that is going to kill 300,000 Americans a year is an over exaggerated paranoid message that is largely based on junk food science.
The real science on Obesity research is constantly attacked and not revealed to the public because guess what- Big companies who stand to gain alot of money are the ones who back the research that tells you you must loose weight or you are in bad health and will die. It isn't entirely true research.
I could go on and on and write about this obsession with weight, but remember I'd have to display a years worth of reading that I have done.
Instead for people who are interested in eating for their health and not directly for their waistline, and for people interested in more real biology and science about obesity and exactly how dangerous it is at all levels, check out these sites and books:

http://the-f-word.org/blog/ - Blog on Food, Fat, and Feminism.

http://www.healthateverysize.info/ - just what it says, Health At Every Size.

http://www.junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/ - Sandy Szwarc, Registered Nurse relays some very awesome information about obesity and health.

Books:
May I highly recommend these three books:

-The Diet Myth by Paul Campos
-The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos
-Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss-- and the Myths and Realities of Dieting.

I'm not telling anyone out there to become sedantary and eat and gain weight. What I am saying is that the stuff that people tell you about "calories in and calories out" isn't always what obesity is all about. Yes there are people who do eat and gain weight because they over eat, but that's hardly the end of the story.
There is so much information that the thin obsessed media will not portray in a fair manner, and all you get is diet diet diet, and starve starve, and exercise hours and hours a day until you puke.

I think most people know the realities of dieting and that most people gain the weight back.
So instead of saying, It was my fault that I gained the weight because I didn't do what the diet said to a T.
Think of it this way;
You're paying that trainer, bought that book, pay for the counseling, or joined jenny craig.
If you gain the weight back, perhaps you should question why it is that THEY FAILED YOU.
Because they are set up for failure because diets constantly put you in starvation mode that your body goes insane with to counteract, hence weight gain.
It goes even farther beyond that so I suggest people with a real vested interest in their health start asking questions and reading up on the real skinny on obesity.

Thank you for listening.

23 September 2008

23 September 2008

Weigh-in: 206.0 lb lost so far: 4.0 lb still to go: 31.0 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   add comment losing 1.2 lb a week

19 September 2008

Well I have to say that my diet is all over the place.
But however my calories aren't high.
Basically I've been eating what I want when I want but it very small amounts.
I know it sounds totally against the rules but it works.
I haven't had a huge appetite today and I ate things in small amounts when I felt like it.
I mean I eat salad, sandwiches, fish- you name it.
But if I feel like a cookie than dammit I have A cookie.
Not a box but a cookie.

So no foods off limits, however I don't buy bags of junk food and keep it in my house.
It really does help to keep track of what I eat though. Because then I know that if I feel like some chocoalte it's okay because I know what I've aten.

I saw Gwyneth Paltrow today on Oprah and she said something that highly resonated with me.
Oprah asked her about how she had gotten such a "hot" body lately.
She explained that after her second child she just couldn't get rid of the extra 20 pounds she had acquired so she said that all of the sudden in her 30's she had to work for it.
So she said basically she works out 2 hours a day 6 days a week.
Oprah asked what kind of a diet she was on, and she said Honestly I am not on a diet, the only thing I don't eat is anything on four legs.
That's her thing.
She said that she found that the minute she put calorie or food restriction or even thought about dieting she would always put on a mysterious 5 pounds.
Every time she obsessed and stepped on the scale she would start packing on weight. So she doesn't do major calorie restricted diets.
For some reason I think she's got a very valid point because I seem to feel that way as well.
I like the idea of writing down my food, but I don't like the idea of saying "I can't have this, or I can't have that" it's absolutely absurd to me.
It's taken me well over a year of reading books about diets, reading spiritual books, and reading books about how diets are myths, and I'm seeing the mental connection of deprivation in diets to the physical holding on of weight more clearly all the time.

There's definitely something to it.

17 September 2008

Weigh-in: 207.0 lb lost so far: 3.0 lb still to go: 32.0 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   add comment losing 0.7 lb a week

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