Pardon me while I complain, because you're going to hear a lot of it over the next month. This blog is for me; I complain to get it out; read it if you want; click on to some other site and don't come back if you do not.
I'll keep this particular ramble short. This is based on my experience. People vary, and I am not especially big (bigger people have reported different experiences and all sorts of people have reported bull$hit accounts otherwise...) Here goes: While people love to obsess over what they're going to eat while they're on a diet, and entire magazines are devoted to it - nay, entire industries - and zillions of dollars are spent by people trying to buy an easy way out - well... if you're going to lose weight, while you still get to eat *something* each day (lest you die of starvation) - you'd better get used to basically not eating.
In other words, fancy it up all you want by talking about what you're going to eat. In the end, it's a whole lot of NOT eating. It's about not eating. (I just repeated myself.) You don't eat a lot more than you do eat.
It sucks; it's not fun; it works. It's something that has to be endured. Show me the person who says, "...and I was never hungry" and I'll call that person a liar or someone who has not lost any weight.
Maybe it's different for others- whatever - but at my weight, to take a pound off means eating about 1/4 of what I would like to eat, and probably about 1/3 of what I would normally eat.
Over and out.
Calories today: 1,427, and I could easily eat double that and not feel that I overindulged.
I think there is so much talk about what to eat while on a diet simply BECAUSE there is do much not eating!! So what we DO put in our mouths matters that much more- to keep up nourished and satiated :)
ReplyDeleteVery true. I see you have a great blog - thanks for posting, and I'm glad I found your blog!
DeleteEveryone else who hasn't said anything - just go ahead, so I can find more blogs to read - even if I do have to read about food, which may make me more hungry!
:o)
Glad you're still here - you had mentioned folding our tent on/around the 15th???
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm back from my NM sojourn, I see Allan has jettisoned the challenge (maybe I was skewing the results too badly ;-) and I need to put my own post together after I catch up on some sleep...
But you're of course absolutely dead-on about NOT eating; the discipline is hard to impose.
Thanks; yep, that is another goal broken - but since I'm breaking it to work on my goal, I will excuse myself from that. Lately I've been sticking to my calorie limit and I truly feel like I imagine junkies must feel without a fix. It becomes ingrained in the neurotransmitters when you develop habits involving dopamine (as I believe many compulsive behaviors do - including overeating) and when you add in the body's natural drive to obtain a minimum level of calories over the threshhold I have set, it's a bunch of mental misery. But I'm slogging through it, a minute at a time.
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