Comments | easternpromise: The time has come, the walrus said...

easternpromise

The time has come, the walrus said...

Mar 13, 2013 23:49

I could write a thousand words, and never say all that I wanted to ( Read more... )

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serena_lesley March 14 2013, 12:59:21 UTC

You mention that weight loss is 'so fucking easy' for 'everyone else'. If the people that you are including in 'everyone else' are also the people who are giving you information about 'Eating too little; Damaged metabolisms and how to fix them', then what does that tell you? Some of those people have also damaged their own metabolisms for similar reasons to yours, and the 'advice' that they are giving you is effectively them saying, 'I buggered my metabolism up too, but then from the VERY SAME STARTING POINT that you are currently at, I did these things and they worked for me, just the same as they've worked for every other human being who has needed to fix their metabolism, because human beings share the SAME basic biology ( ... )

easternpromise March 14 2013, 18:45:20 UTC

I think it's rather more complex on this particular occasion. I did perfectly well through January, without overly restricting/binge eating etc, but had a couple of issues which have basically blown me out of the water. Specifically those were water retention which basically put me back above my post-Christmas weight (!) and tiredness. My usual reaction to being tired is to stuff my face, alas ( ... )

serena_lesley March 14 2013, 20:28:58 UTC

I'm so glad to hear that you did well over January without overly restricting, as that will hopefully help you to see that being so strict is not necessarily the way forward. Going back to logging, and starting with a 2000 goal rather than a 1500 one is such a positive step, so well done, seriously. It takes a LOT of courage to keep going back to trying, after setback upon setback, and for that, I'm full of admiration for you. It must be so frustrating to do what you are convinced is the right thing, yet seeing no results while craving more food than you are allowing yourself. I hope so much that this will be fixed for you soon ( ... )

xidia March 15 2013, 07:05:40 UTC

We'll done! Logging is such an important step, as you know, and it's great too see you starting again. From the numbers I crunched last time, 2000 is a much healthier & sustainable goal for you than 1500, and I'm so pleased to see you aiming more for that. I know this is hard for you, and it's incredible too see your determination too keep coming back and trying again to get to where you want to be.

I have noticed that when I'm tired, it's my body telling me I need more sleep, food or both. With the combination of MFP and FitBit, you'll have the data too need too work or which it is, and make choices about how you meet that need. x

smescrater March 14 2013, 17:38:55 UTC

Sending empathy from this end. Wish I had better words but all I can say is 'biology sucks'.

easternpromise March 14 2013, 18:46:07 UTC

It does. Any sign of teeny bean yet?

txteva March 14 2013, 20:31:18 UTC

It's not easy. The logic is very easy but life isn't logical. Life is full of things to trip you up.

I joined a gym... and have stuck to it amazingly.
And I'm logging sort of (Noom on android is good for that - you get points for logging and get "level up"!)

easternpromise March 14 2013, 21:05:54 UTC

The gym is genuinely not my problem - I LOVE the gym and would be there all day every day beasting the crap out of myself if I could. Its probably a good thing that I can't, to be fair :)

Food is my problem. Noom sounds interesting - I am going to go forth and look it up ! :D