Evidence does not work in my favor. If I swear I won't touch the wet paint, then I honestly will. If I swear I won't change my habits I'll binge and/or just give up. And I'm going to have to change something in *calculates, assuming 2 pounds per month loss* another 3 or 4 months or so, or I might never stop losing weight. Then everyone will say I look anorexic again when I'm not starving myself and I won't like the way I look, since I'm trying to keep some curves - just not all of them.
Eating to me is not about dieting anymore but fluidity - changing what needs to be changed as I go along. And I'm going to have to change it all around again - or at least tweak what, when and how I eat - sooner or later, or I might get too thin.
and write down everything you eat (or photograph every meal with your phone, or similar)
I wouldn't have time to eat if I did. When I was unemployed (which was when I gained most of the weight) maybe, but now...and if I became that obsessed, I would probably become anorexic again - seriously obsessing over calories/portions/anything about food has been a trigger-y thing since I was very young, so I intentionally build a little wiggle room into what, when and how I eat to keep myself from getting too - "excited" about it.
I guess this is one case where "different strokes for different folks" would most likely apply. :)
Western civilisation has more or less solved the food problem, but our genes don't know this
I was on the thin side until my mid-thirties, though (the dieting was more about my distorted body image than actually needing to lose weight, and started while I was still a single digit age - just six). I think all the stuff I put my body through with dieting, lack of sleep, over-exertion, eating too much, yo-yo dieting, and so on, wrecked my metabolism, which on top of that is slowing down naturally as I get older.
But I can see making a case for most people's genes don't know it, either way.
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Evidence does not work in my favor. If I swear I won't touch the wet paint, then I honestly will. If I swear I won't change my habits I'll binge and/or just give up. And I'm going to have to change something in *calculates, assuming 2 pounds per month loss* another 3 or 4 months or so, or I might never stop losing weight. Then everyone will say I look anorexic again when I'm not starving myself and I won't like the way I look, since I'm trying to keep some curves - just not all of them.
Eating to me is not about dieting anymore but fluidity - changing what needs to be changed as I go along. And I'm going to have to change it all around again - or at least tweak what, when and how I eat - sooner or later, or I might get too thin.
and write down everything you eat (or photograph every meal with your phone, or similar)
I wouldn't have time to eat if I did. When I was unemployed (which was when I gained most of the weight) maybe, but now...and if I became that obsessed, I would probably become anorexic again - seriously obsessing over calories/portions/anything about food has been a trigger-y thing since I was very young, so I intentionally build a little wiggle room into what, when and how I eat to keep myself from getting too - "excited" about it.
I guess this is one case where "different strokes for different folks" would most likely apply. :)
Western civilisation has more or less solved the food problem, but our genes don't know this
I was on the thin side until my mid-thirties, though (the dieting was more about my distorted body image than actually needing to lose weight, and started while I was still a single digit age - just six). I think all the stuff I put my body through with dieting, lack of sleep, over-exertion, eating too much, yo-yo dieting, and so on, wrecked my metabolism, which on top of that is slowing down naturally as I get older.
But I can see making a case for most people's genes don't know it, either way.