Good Morning Ladies!
I've been incommunicado the past few days. Took Friday off with the boy and had some quality time. I'm actually supposed to be on vacation this week, but the camping fell through so here I am at the office, not working.
There was some interesting discussion while I was gone.
Valerie, I agree with you. I think you have to be "ready" to lose. I wasn't for a long time, which is how I got to 300+ and stayed there for so long. I didn't
like being so fat. I always wanted to lose weight. No, I take that back...I didn't want to
lose weight-I just wanted to
be thinner. But I didn't want to go thru the process of actually losing. Big difference.
The thing that gets me about the diet clinic show, is that these people have voluntarily placed themselves into a CLINIC. Now I assume Mediciad or some other insurance is footing the bills, but still, they've gone to the effort to get
put into a facility! You'd think that would indicate that they are "ready" to lose. Apparently not, when they still order pizza or get friends and relatives to bring them burgers instead of eating the healthy meals that the clinic supplies. I saw one episode where the "cheater" said he didn't eat the food because he didn't like it.
Well golly-gee-wiz, he might have to
learn to eat fish and veggies to lose weight...guess he never thought about that in advance. IT'S HOSPITAL FOOD - WHAT DID HE EXPECT? It boggles the mind. I also saw one of the first episodes, where the doctor who runs the clinic said that he had instituted a "no cheating" policy and didn't allow any outside food for a time and that people left. He said he figured if they were there are cheating he'd at least have a chance of helping them instead of them just leaving and dying, so he dropped that policy. (The cynic in me said "yeah, and then you wouldn't get paid.") In a later episode, he segregated the clinic into the "cheaters" and the "non-cheaters" so the non-cheaters wouldn't have to be exposed to the food the cheaters kept bringing in. I didn't see the end of that one.
Rosebud-I'm not sure I consider myself a "repeater". I've always been fat. I was a fat child, teen and adult. I have barely any memory of being under 200 lbs, but then at a big-boned 5'10" that's only about 20 lbs overweight. I've gained and lost but was never really committed to keeping it off. The last time I lost any significant weight was about 1996 and I got down to a bit smaller than I am now (at least the hips were according to the clothes I still have from back then) and after I got settled in with my DH he and I just ate our way up the scale. We were happy, we liked food, we loved each other no matter what we looked like, and the pounds went on. So, in answer to why I had such a problem maintaining my loss - I didn't
care. I had lost for my looks, rather than my health. It wasn't important enough for me to worry about. Inattention, apathy, laziness, indifference - I wish I had a better reason, but that's what did it for me. Why will this time be different? Because it
is. I don't really know why - it just
IS. I know this time that I can't ever let myself be lazy again. I've worked too hard to be apathetic about it. I will slip, I will gain a bit now and then and hopefully take it back off quickly, I know myself - I
will. But I won't be 300 lbs again - I won't be 250. Ever.
A big hello to Terri, Luja, Karen, Angela and everyone else! Sorry, but I think I've typed myself out and I need to get moving on real work now. I'll try not to be such a stranger!