I'm sat here watching crap day time tell but 'you are what you eat' has come on. It got me thinking at what point to you look in the mirror and say 'I'm over weight'?
Are people over weight because they have a low self esteem or is it that they are not bothered.
I'm a self confessed comfort eater so my weight yoyo's and the more I put on the more I hate how I look but I eat more because I'm down.
When should it be enough? or am I just being silly and be happy no matter how big my bum and tummy get?
Does anyone feel the same way are you and comfort eater like me?
I blame a lot of the difficulties in keeping to our bodies desired weight (this differs from person to person) due to society.
Ie, nearly everyone works to survive these days and jobs tend not to involve a lot of exercise. This means we are not burning off calories.
We go to supermarkets that sell a lot of crap, that are very hard for our bodies to digest.
Whereas our appetites have not changed, so we eat as though we are still running around and eating wholesome food.
Knowing this I don't cuss myself for wanting to eat food or enjoying it, but there is an awareness. I bought a book called, 'eat right for your blood type' and over 3 months lost a stone and a half. I didn't stop eating (I like it too much) but I was eating food that agreed with my body and was used better to make me function.
Try it, it might work for you too.
excuses, excuses. mind numbin daytime tele,the crap they feed women n they lap it up .
Dizzy, I think people put weight on because of loads of reasons, low self esteem, comfort eating, convienience foods, lack of will power, lack of self respect etc etc
Keep at it and treat each day as a new one and you'll feel better in no time. There isnt a better feeling than being happy with your body, whatever that size shape may be.
Also don't listen to those who'll tell you you look fine at size whatever, dont stop until your happy with yourself. Most people just dont have the willpower or are simply jealous and would rather tell you to be fat than help you get thin. There are very very few people truly happy being fat. Those who say they are are often good liars.
M&L
is this the readers letters corner of take a break mag ?
Well done Foxy!!! :thumbup:
I’m afraid the calories in and calories out ideas about losing or gaining weight is pure myth just like a lot of other “sound” dietary advice, it is repeated ad nauseam like a religious mantra, and if said enough times by enough people it becomes fact. Go to any diet web page, NHS healthy eating guides, the diabetes uk website they all repeat the same advice, eat less calories, cut out fat, eat your five a day, exercise more, mostly all cut and pasted from the same source. What they all fail to say is how much their advice is failing. And when it fails, which it does the majority of the time, it’s blamed on the individual not following the advice and not blamed on the advice they were given in the first place. Calories on their own have very little to do with weight loss or gain except in very extreme cases. Calorie controlled diets do work to a degree but not because of less calories, it works because people eat less sugary food, but then what happens is your body adjusts itself to using less calories so the weight loss stops as it prepares to enter starvation mode and starts storing fat again, after all, a low calorie diet is designed to keep you permanently hungry and the human body just does not like that which is why people start “grazing” ie raiding the fridge and food cupboards, so the yo-yo effect takes place.
Likewise with exercise, that has very little to do with losing body fat as well. It’s possible to exercise all the time and put on loads of weight( I know, been there) and it’s also possible to lose weight without exercise ( I know, been there as well ) so for all the media hype about blaming today’s sedentary life style for causing weight gain, it is just not true.
I’ve already done the basic biology bit on another thread so not going to repeat it here. But for anybody who wants to lose weight, the best advice to give is get yourself a blood glucose monitor. Even for non diabetics. Keep your blood sugar below and if it’s higher than 7mmol/L two hours after eating, have a diabetes check. Normal readings for non diabetics should be roughly or thereabouts.
i can also dismiss the eat cholesterol have high cholesterol, eat fat get fat, salt is bad, fat is bad, whatever the medics decide this week is bad, can debunk all them
isn't factual science great
hwoar: :rascal: ) but it's all down to how you see yourself. Don't think you have to be the 'perfect 10' just what's perfect for YOU! ( and your sexy other half of course :twisted: ) Marilyn Monroe tops the polls of the sexiest body ever nearly everytime and she was a size 16! 
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That is so me!! I think I have reverse body dysmorphia. :rotflmao:
