interesting post. In some ways it goes with the book I'm reading now, "Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body" by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby. (it sounds like just another "love your body don't hate it blah blah blah" book but since it was available on kindle and I could get the free sample, I got the sample, was interested, and am now 1/2way through and loving it.)
It's got some really good info/ways of looking at things (not a lot about diabetes though). They really get in there and help separate the whole tangle of health, weight, food, fitness, and self-love. For me it's really helping get it into my brain how fat is not a good measure of health.
i think that i've found for me that the best way to not have issues with stuff like this isn't to read anything produced by the fitness/diet industry. it took a lot of convincing before i was willing to read the atkins book.
maybe i'll check it out though. was it you i read who mentioned that you don't weigh yourself anymore? i think that's a fabulous idea. i don't either. the only benchmark i allow is how my clothes fit.
I don't think it was me who mentioned that, but I also don't weigh myself. I stand the other way at the doctors office too. :)
My benchmark these days is whether I feel tired and down or energized and "up!" For me it zeros in on why I would want to eat well/exercise and keeps me focused on the right thing. (except when I have bad days and explode in rants about FAT - but I never want to do that again, in writing (or in talking, but I don't think I do that very often? I think?), because the book had a chapter about how that brings other ppl down, even when you are just talking about yourself.)
but maybe you already knew that. (I tend to "discover" things way behind other ppl. I'm on the edge - the opposite side of the leading edge... the "TRAILING EDGE" - haaa!)
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It's got some really good info/ways of looking at things (not a lot about diabetes though). They really get in there and help separate the whole tangle of health, weight, food, fitness, and self-love. For me it's really helping get it into my brain how fat is not a good measure of health.
Well anyways, I liked reading your post.
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i think that i've found for me that the best way to not have issues with stuff like this isn't to read anything produced by the fitness/diet industry. it took a lot of convincing before i was willing to read the atkins book.
maybe i'll check it out though. was it you i read who mentioned that you don't weigh yourself anymore? i think that's a fabulous idea. i don't either. the only benchmark i allow is how my clothes fit.
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My benchmark these days is whether I feel tired and down or energized and "up!" For me it zeros in on why I would want to eat well/exercise and keeps me focused on the right thing. (except when I have bad days and explode in rants about FAT - but I never want to do that again, in writing (or in talking, but I don't think I do that very often? I think?), because the book had a chapter about how that brings other ppl down, even when you are just talking about yourself.)
Those two authors write on the Shapely Prose blog over here:
http://kateharding.net/
but maybe you already knew that. (I tend to "discover" things way behind other ppl. I'm on the edge - the opposite side of the leading edge... the "TRAILING EDGE" - haaa!)
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