I have been watching the weight loss, and obesity shows on Discovery Health Channel (it's that time of year) and I must say they not only upset and discourage me, but they also make me mad, and make me think.
I have noticed in the years that I have been fighting my own obesity that the more we become a society of people worried about weight, the fatter we get. I heard on one of these shows that the rate of morbid obesity has gone up 350%! Yet, if you go to book stores, and video stores the weight loss and fitness sections are huge. People have become millionaires from writing the right diet book, **** Richard Simmons has become an icon for god's sake! From my own experience I have found that just the sheer act of going on a restrictive diet only makes me feel as though I'm being deprived, and then all I do is think of food, which only makes me ea6t more. When I lost weight before I decided that I was going to eat as much as I wanted, and not worry about it. Granted, I did pig out for a couple of weeks but I noticed before long I was eating normal amounts of food. I wasn't constatnly snacking, and I stopped thinking about food all of the time. I hear from thin people all the time that they only think of food when they're hungry. Well, when I got into that mind set that was what I did, I only thought of food when I was hungry, and I lost weight. I was walking 6 days a week, and I ate only when I was hungry. Some days I ate more, some I ate less, but I was losing weight. Then when my Grandmother died I slipped into another depression and I ate because of emotion, and gained all of my weight back, then I became worried again about how much I ate, and haven't been able to lose the weight again. So, I am going back to what I did before, it's the only thing that worked for me, except I'm going to be eating leaner healthier foods.
Another thing that upsets me is that these restaurants and fast food places try to see how much food they can shove down our throats. The portions are just out of control! There is absolutely no reason to have a one pound hamburger! No one needs a 64 oz. big gulp. Thats a gallon! So, my idea is to not worry so much about what you eat. I mean if we all would stop obsessing about getting into a size 2 (alternachicks are not considered here because you are all too smart to want to starve yourselves), and just go on about the business of living we would all be a lot healthier. Well, anyway, I am just tired of people fasting, or going on 600 calorie a day diets, and then when they quit they stuff themselves til they're sick. That's no way to live, and I'm gettin' off the merry-go-round now. Thanks for the ride. It's ben real. From now on it's lots of fruit, veg, whole grains, low fat, and exercise. Ok, my long and boring rant is over.