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Originally Posted by rockinrobin
I think it would be humanly impossible to be 5 feet, no inches and 287 pounds with only eating when I was hungry.
OMG, so true. Based on what Fitday calcs as my total calorie needs, I'm eating 500-1k less than needed to maintain my weight. This comes to 2k-2500 (!) a day and I'm shocked that the weight is just coming off. Where your quote comes in: I'm eating whole foods, natural foods, never
ever go hungry (though I'll wait for a message from my tummy that I'm hungry), several small meals/snacks a day. And let me tell you, it's difficult to get that many calories in a day when you're eating good food! And I'm not even restricting fats beyond avoiding trans fats and watching saturated.
Lesson: I could have
never gotten this huge if I'd only eaten when hungry.
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Originally Posted by rockinrobin
I ate out of boredom, frustration, anger, happiness, lonliness and then probably just really bad habits.
How did you get inside my head?
Oh, lemme remember, I had some point here. Oh yeah, it was this: the boredom, frustration, anger, etc. eating gets us here. Now add in my entirely unscientific belief that the body generally wants to remain wherever it is unless prodded otherwise. So when you get to 300 pounds through emotional eating, and then those emotions don't bother you so much anymore, but your body now somewhat wants to stay at this weight....I think this is where habit gets ingrained. In order to give the body the calories it wants to maintain, (3000+) you pretty much
have to consume a good deal of calorie-dense food, and it becomes a vicious cycle.
I kind of have a caretaker position over my body atm. "Here you go, love, some more whole, healthy food for you to digest, yes, I know it's every couple hours, but it's keeping you busy and satisfied, isn't it? Nope, no famine here, go ahead and burn a little of that stored energy, cause you know we don't need it what with the no famine and all...yes, I'll keep inserting more veggies and grains and protein for you *pet* so don't worry one bit, just relax and bask in the nutrition."
Um yeah, the topic. The brain does funny things. If I pay attention it does, "I'm bored, why am I bored? I must have a sucky life. Eat some potato chips" in about the space of one-tenth of a second. It's flippin' scary. And it'll probably happen again where I don't pay attention and blammo, binge. For the time being, dreamy1's tips are fabulous.