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I am eating weird today. I don't know what the problem is, but I'm 95% through my allotment for the day -- although I generally top out around 1450 these days -- but I haven't had dinner yet. And I'm carbing. It's very strange. I think it's the change in the weather. It's suddenly freezing, and I think maybe my body is demanding a little heavier nutrition. I just have to roll with it. I've learned over time... If I stay the course and push myself past rough spots, I'll do OK. I just have to be patient.
I want to say something here that I hope will ring a bell with a few of the younger people on FS: There are a whole bunch of us on FS who are post-menopausal women ranging in age from 50-65+. And when you read the profiles, you find that most have been battling our weight for years... since adolescence or even earlier. And for most of us, the problem got much worse when we passed through "the change" and became insulin resistant. For sure there's a certain comfort level knowing that I'm not alone here.. that I'm in good company with a lot of folks who really do know exactly what I'm facing.
But to tell you the truth, I wish I wasn't here. I wish that back when I was in my 30s, I had learned about low-glycemic eating... learned that weighing and measuring everything that goes into your mouth isn't just about counting calories, it's about training yourself to understand what a portion is and to be satisfied with that portion...learned that it is sugar that's the enemy, not fat. If I'd learned those lessons, I wouldn't be here now, because instead of spending my whole adult life gaining and losing the same 50 pounds (which turned into 80 pounds post-menopause), I would have maintained a healthy body and a health body image over the years.
I'm not saying this because I wracked with regret, although I do have regrets. I'm saying this because there are young people on FS who are not "getting it," and who are setting themselves up to yo-yo through that same 50 pounds I've juggled all these years. I look at their profiles and their food diaries, and I see young women:
starving themselves -- eating under 1,000 calories per day
eating tightly calorie controlled diets that are high carb...
in particular, calorie controlled diets that include beer (sometimes 2), lots of instant coffee creamer, which is just sugar
dinners apparently consisting of cauliflower and no protein source
None of these habits is sustainable, which also explains why we often see journaling from these folks beating themselves up for splurges on pizza or fried chicken or chocolate cake, after which they immediately weigh themselves and attribute a gain or no-loss to that pizza splurge, and beat themselves up some more.
I so support all the younger people here on FS -- weight loss is a daunting undertaking at any age. But when weight loss is based on so depriving yourself that you are hungry all the time and resentful about what you are not eating, when your diet undermines your ability to socialize, you are dooming yourself to failure. Been there. Done that.
If you are a young, active person, and you find yourself 25-40 pounds overweight, don't go on some strict, unsustainble diet. Find a new way of eating... a healthy, satisfying way of eating that is sustainable across your lifetime. Build in the way you work, live and socialize. You may lose weight very slowly, but if you lose consistently, keep the weight off, and satisfy your nutritional needs, you will not ever be me... struggling to lose 100 pounds at 60+ years old.
Sorry if I've offended anyone, but I could help noticing some of these issues among the FS people I follow, and it worries me.
Diet Calendar Entry for 30 October 2017:
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1278 kcal
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Fat: 57.86g | Prot: 70.71g | Carb: 118.30g.
Breakfast: Sweetgreen Buckwheat Bread, Smucker's Natural Chunky Peanut Butter, Milk (Nonfat), Crofter's Organic Strawberry Spread. Lunch: Godiva 72% Dark Chocolate with Almonds, Cantaloupe (Muskmelon), Chicken Breast Meat and Skin (Broilers or Fryers), Au Bon Pain Harvest Pumpkin Soup (Medium). Snacks/Other: Crofter's Organic Strawberry Spread, Lactaid 100% Lactose Free Lowfat Small Curd Cottage Cheese, Jilz Snackers Mediterranean CrackerZ, Smucker's Natural Chunky Peanut Butter, Cabot Extra Sharp White Cheddar Cheese. more...
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