Walk done, beautiful this morning. As I walk I've been listening to an audio book which is a collection of blogs from an American woman who lost a large amount of weight with a gastric bypass. For the most part it's a good listen, and when you hear about how her parents treat her etc you can understand why she developed disordered eating etc. It's towards the end I'm finding it really annoying. She seems to have transformed into someone who now thinks they know best how to eat and live, that people shouldn't 'diet', they should eat mindfully and healthfully. Yes, no **** Sherlock, but at least one person probably suggested this to you at 420 pounds but it didn't feel like an option. She goes on to admit that the surgery helped her because it stopped the hunger (that's a pretty big help) but she feels sure she would have overcome her issues anyway through strength of mind and self-love. She's also very critical of others' way of eating. She meets a lady who has lost 80 pounds and when she asks how she has done it the lady replies 'stopped eating'. Our author is hugely critical of this and thinks it faulty thinking and 'anorectic', she thinks denying the body food is unhealthy, but this is just a passing conversation at a yard sale. Possibly the lady meant she stopped eating so much, or she did one of the many fasting regimes which some humans have been doing for medical and spiritual reasons for centuries.
I don't know. I'm left hugely irritated. Perhaps it's because losing weight is such a personal thing, and when people find their own way to do it, great! Don't then assume that's the best way for everyone else. I have had success previously with Atkins, VLCD, calorie counting. I would never recommend these to others just because they worked for me.
I am also irritated by the dogma that diets don't work if you gain it all back. I gained my weight back because I chose to eat too much. Now I'm choosing to lose the weight. Like I said in a previous post, this won't be the 'last time', my weight will probably fluctuate throughout my life. That's ok.
Ooh, it's really got my back up has that
) which is a lot closer than I expected them to be. I shall report back if I ever get into them and take them for an outing. Tops are all fine and nice. Bolero/shrug thing for wedding outfit on sunday arrived too. I'm not in love with this outfit, but it will do. I think it would be different if I was going somewhere I knew everyone,but I will literally only know the groom and my husband, so as long as I'm smart enough, meh.
