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3.3 miles walked; 2.6 with dogs. Very humid, semi-warm, and clammy this morning. Everything just seems cool-ish and damp.
I have a few random thoughts that came to me while walking today. You know, someone has got to figure out this weight loss thing definitively, for all of us, before we kill ourselves!
Over the months I've been on this site, I realized I've never seen such abuse inflicted on our bodies in the pursuit of weight loss. There are starvation diets and diets that add hormones to our bodies. Is this the only way we can possibly lose weight?
I mean, c'mon, even on Atkins...how terrible is it to reduce our calories below 500 for days on end, have beer and pizza over the weekend, and then complain that our body isn't dropping weight 2 days later?? Are we even thinking about what we're doing when we restrict calories to that extent? Are we thinking about what we're doing when we all of a sudden add that huge amount of food and alcohol to our system on the weekend? Are we even thinking of what a shock to our system it is to try to beat our body into weight loss submission by over-exercising and restricting calories on the day or two after the weekend binge?
We think that because we "got back on track" the following day and ate next to nothing and spent hours in the gym, that our bodies should rebound perfectly and drop at least a handful of pounds by the end of the week because we've been "good" for 4 days. Well, "good" except for that glass of wine, or that rum & Coke, or whatever it was that we had mid-week. And then the following week, there'll be a cake a neighbor brought over, or a big cookie at work, or nachos at a ball game, or whatever life brings along.
Now, just a disclaimer here....I'm not talking about anyone specifically but have written a composite of the kind of things I see over and over again on journals.
Sure, life happens. And we have to make a decision on whether or not to go off-plan. I'm not so naive as to believe it will never happen, but when life takes charge of our eating, rather than us, then this diet is no longer a WOE - a life change for us - it's just a temporary measure in between "fun" events in our life.
We all have the right to make decisions in our own life about the foods we do and do not eat; no one force feeds us. We have the right to decide how to approach our own weight loss. But I believe that many of the things I see people doing to their bodies in the name of weight loss are abusive to the very body we're trying to have work a plan along with us.
FOOD NOTES ADDED LATER: Had a larger snack at about 3:30 and ate due to true hunger; no Atkins bar as I'd usually have at that time. Also had some peanuts. Between eveything, I got really, really ful, so didn't eat any dinner per se, but wited until I got hungry again, maybe 9PM or so and just had a Jello dessert. Weigh-in on Tuesday AM puts me within .2 of the next pound down.
Diet Calendar Entries for 28 February 2011:
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1455 kcal
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Fat: 110.41g | Prot: 86.06g | Carb: 47.87g.
Breakfast: Brown Sugar & Honey Breakfast Sausage, Kraft/Borden/Cooper shredded colby/Mexican cheese, Pieces & Stems Mushrooms, scrambled eggs. Lunch: Kraft shredded colby jack cheese, Heinz reduced sugar ketchup, Peru sweet onion, ground beef, Tumaro multi-grain low-carb tortilla. Dinner: Land O' Lakes Sugar Free Whipped Heavy Cream (pressurized), Mousse Temptations - Dark Chocolate Indulgence. Snacks/Other: Planters Virginia peanuts, String Cheese Mozzarella Cheese Snacks. more...
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2150 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Sleeping - 8 hours, Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 36 minutes, Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 24 minutes, Resting - 15 hours. more...
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 Comments
Sandy, yep, we do terrible things to our bodies and expect them to behave as if we love them. That is one of the things I will never do...starve myself, or fast for more than a day and then only for religious reasons. If I am "bad", "fall of the wagon", eat something that I know I shouldn't, I will simply get back on track the next day, picking up where I left off before I deviated. It is kind of like a board game, where you leave perimeter of squares to explore what is inside the ring, and then go right back out the same place you entered the inner circle and go on your way! To do anything else is to move backward. Thanks for the insighful journal. I see the same thing all the time and wonder if they truly know how much damage they are doing to their metabolism, when they binge, binge, binge, and then fast, fast, fast until they lose the pounds gained, or even worse in preparation of a special event, so that they can gorge themselves. Really rather sad. Have a great and healthy day, Sandy! Hugs and love, sis!
28 Feb 11 by member: ctlss
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Oh, and I am not talking out the side of my neck....I have done all these things and more. Liquid diets, VLC diets, starvation diets, one food only diets....you name it, I have tried it, and failed at every single one, and ended up in much worse shape than when I started!
28 Feb 11 by member: ctlss
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I think you had a very productive walk today! Much Love.
28 Feb 11 by member: jsfantome
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Thanks for your comments Stef and Paula. Stef, I tried a few diets in my life...mostly my mom always wanted to drop "a few" so it was an experiment with whatever the latest diet was. Remember Metracal shakes? Or the grapefruit diet? Luckily, she/we never stayed on them for too long, as she was truly not overweight, so not too much damage; guess I was lucky. Paula, I think some of my thoughts are turning this way as I'm trying to plow my way through the Gary Taubes' book, "Why We Get Fat." Between his thoughts and theories and what we see on this site, it really gets me to thinking beyond just pounds and calories. I just wish there was a proven reason for overweight and a proven method for weight loss that everyone agreed on so all this diet/exercise madness could stop. Have a wonderful Monday, ladies!
28 Feb 11 by member: Sandy701
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Sandy do you remember Susan Powter "Stop the Insanity"? Whooo, she was a bit crazy!
28 Feb 11 by member: ctlss
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One would think the human body is well...like every other human body... but it's not. It is in a lot of ways...and so incredibly NOT in countless more! So I don't see that proven method all encompassing answer coming down the pike any time soon! But look at it this way Sandy, even if people read your journal, and pause to think about how they could make little changes to stop the madness, the roller coaster ride, the abusive behaviors that they are cycling through...WOW, is that impressive change that would take place!!! So, like I said, you got a lot done on that walk of yours! Much Love.
28 Feb 11 by member: jsfantome
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Yes, Stef, I DO remember Susan Powter. Don't remember anything she said as I think it was the personality that turned me off. And, Paula, I can always dream for the all-encompassing answer, but. like you, I'm not holding my breath for it to come anytime soon. :)
28 Feb 11 by member: Sandy701
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