An interesting thought
Been mulling over my weight loss stall of the last 7 months in the midst of a sea of fellow humans who seem to look sideways and drop 3 pounds every week. It feels like injustice. It feels like a reason for rage. It feels....familiar. Now why is that ? I run through my mental computer of life experiences and begin to see where and when I have felt this feeling before.It was almost 20 years ago, and I was dealing with infertility. Everyone around me was getting pregnant, and many by simply having sex once. We were sharing an apartment with mice who were breeding very successfully, and I had several houseplants that were breeding with absolutely no special moves or care.Yet I remained childless , no matter how often we had sex or in what way. I remember feeling so absolutely discouraged in my own biological faculties as a result. I remember sitting through and planning baby showers for those who easily did what I could not, thinking this was some kind of cosmic joke. It was surreal, but I knew in my heart of hearts my day would come.
I realized yesterday, after stepping on my Wii to discover I have gained 7 pounds since Saturday morning in spite of following Weight Watchers to the letter and exercising a minimum of an hour a day, that something is wrong.This has been the pattern for the last half a year, and unless i did something this would be another week of a gain or maintain.Weight gain from muscle development will happen only for a week, and then that muscle begins to rev the metabolism and you start to lose weight again.To continue to gain or maintain for more than a month indicates that the plan is not working for your body type. And here is the thing those diet commercials fail to stress- no two bodies operate in the same way. One size, in weight loss, definitely does not fit all. Just like not every act of sexual intercourse results in conception, and not every conception results in a baby 9 months later. I reviewed my food logs and it became clear that I have been getting too many carbs and not enough protein.Interestingly enough the cause for the problem is the same now as it was then -PCOS. It means that what is normal for most is not so for me, and changes have to be made. Then it was a need to lose a massive amount of weight to make the condition reset itself. Now it means a different from normal course of eating to make my body relax and lose weight.Same church, different pew .So instantly I changed the way I am eating, and I can honestly feel my body preforming in a different way.
Last night, as a response to the change, my body decided that it should try for an affair with the Tidy Bowl man. When my body moves to weight loss mode, I could enter an Olympic Peeing event I think. This morning the Wii says I have lost 1.3 pounds. Seems like I have hit on the right course for me.
I realized yesterday, after stepping on my Wii to discover I have gained 7 pounds since Saturday morning in spite of following Weight Watchers to the letter and exercising a minimum of an hour a day, that something is wrong.This has been the pattern for the last half a year, and unless i did something this would be another week of a gain or maintain.Weight gain from muscle development will happen only for a week, and then that muscle begins to rev the metabolism and you start to lose weight again.To continue to gain or maintain for more than a month indicates that the plan is not working for your body type. And here is the thing those diet commercials fail to stress- no two bodies operate in the same way. One size, in weight loss, definitely does not fit all. Just like not every act of sexual intercourse results in conception, and not every conception results in a baby 9 months later. I reviewed my food logs and it became clear that I have been getting too many carbs and not enough protein.Interestingly enough the cause for the problem is the same now as it was then -PCOS. It means that what is normal for most is not so for me, and changes have to be made. Then it was a need to lose a massive amount of weight to make the condition reset itself. Now it means a different from normal course of eating to make my body relax and lose weight.Same church, different pew .So instantly I changed the way I am eating, and I can honestly feel my body preforming in a different way.
Last night, as a response to the change, my body decided that it should try for an affair with the Tidy Bowl man. When my body moves to weight loss mode, I could enter an Olympic Peeing event I think. This morning the Wii says I have lost 1.3 pounds. Seems like I have hit on the right course for me.