Day 85 - \o/ or Something
Mar. 26th, 2011 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfsbrideSo a couple of days ago I did a big grocery shop since I have to eat real food these days. Let me tell you it's highway robbery. I bought enough fruits and vegetables to last a week and it came to seventy five dollars. It's no wonder we're all unhealthy eaters. It's cheaper to buy the fake food.
The biggest thing to get used to with this diabetes thing is the whole omg must eat constantly. I'm used to eating just when I'm hungry. Or at least when I feel hungry. Maybe those are two different things. But now I have to eat a bunch of small meals all day long. It's annoying but I suppose ultimately much better for me.
Anyway, the side effect of all this has been that I've finally broken the 270 barrier. That's pounds in case you're wondering.
Yes, I'm fat. There I've said it. I'm not portly or chunky or stout or stocky or BIG BONED or any of the other words people use when they're describing themselves or someone else to people. I'm huge. Obese. To give you some idea, I'm five feet six inches tall so yes, 270 pounds is quite a lot, even if I'm what I consider medium boned.
Now anyone with eyes and ears is aware that weight is a multi million dollar, probably a multi billion dollar industry in North America. For the life of me I do not understand why. The equation is bloody simple. Weight + Eat Less Food + More Exercise = Less Weight. Mathematicians swoon in ecstasy.
Many years ago I lost one hundred pounds doing nothing more than walking a couple of hours a day. I didn't even change the amount of or the kind or food I ate. Sadly, fall and winter came and the weather got all gray and blah as it is wont to do and I stop walking and gained back every single pound plus some friends and relatives and possibly strangers as well.
And that is the both the problem and the solution right there. If you want to be the right weight for your body and stay the right weight for your body, you have to make a lifetime commitment. It's like a marriage. There is no easy way; no quick fix. You have to work at it every single day for the rest of your life.
I say the right weight for your body instead of the correct weight or the ideal weight because I think what diet books and doctors and society considers the correct or ideal weight for someone, bears little or no resemblance to the weight that is right for someone. The right weight is when you both feel good and look good. For example, lots of diet books suggest that given my bone structure, I should be 125 pounds. I don't think I've ever been 125 pounds even when I was a not overweight school kid. We'll have to see. I think maybe 140 would do. Will have to see how I feel when I get to ye ole 170.
I have watched friends and family go through Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Dr. Bernstein, low carb, high carb, low protein, high protein, low fat, high fat and on and on and on and it boils down to the same thing. As soon as you come off the program, the weight goes back on because you go straight back to your old eating habits.
I find it mind boggling, appalling and sad that people shell out endless amounts of money and yet can't grasp that one simple fact.
Huh. And this was supposed to be a quick post. Go figure. Anyway, having broken the 270 mark, I now have one hundred pounds to go. Actually, one hundred and two will bring me back down to where I was ten or so years ago. As mentioned above, this has been a work in progress. Getting to this point has taken three years. So that's eighty pounds in three years.
Not a great deal when compared to the programs that tout lose 20 pounds in 20 weeks! but I know I won't see those pounds again because they've come off as a result of changes I made to my eating patterns because of being diagnosed with high blood pressure. And this time around it was done without adding any exercise.
And yes. You did read that right. At one point, I was 350 pounds.
So again, it's simplicity itself. If you can't give up eating, exercise more. If you hate exercising, eat less. You can't have it both ways. Well, you could. But frankly, stomach stapling is even more mind boggling crazy than handing over good money for something you can do yourself.
The biggest thing to get used to with this diabetes thing is the whole omg must eat constantly. I'm used to eating just when I'm hungry. Or at least when I feel hungry. Maybe those are two different things. But now I have to eat a bunch of small meals all day long. It's annoying but I suppose ultimately much better for me.
Anyway, the side effect of all this has been that I've finally broken the 270 barrier. That's pounds in case you're wondering.
Yes, I'm fat. There I've said it. I'm not portly or chunky or stout or stocky or BIG BONED or any of the other words people use when they're describing themselves or someone else to people. I'm huge. Obese. To give you some idea, I'm five feet six inches tall so yes, 270 pounds is quite a lot, even if I'm what I consider medium boned.
Now anyone with eyes and ears is aware that weight is a multi million dollar, probably a multi billion dollar industry in North America. For the life of me I do not understand why. The equation is bloody simple. Weight + Eat Less Food + More Exercise = Less Weight. Mathematicians swoon in ecstasy.
Many years ago I lost one hundred pounds doing nothing more than walking a couple of hours a day. I didn't even change the amount of or the kind or food I ate. Sadly, fall and winter came and the weather got all gray and blah as it is wont to do and I stop walking and gained back every single pound plus some friends and relatives and possibly strangers as well.
And that is the both the problem and the solution right there. If you want to be the right weight for your body and stay the right weight for your body, you have to make a lifetime commitment. It's like a marriage. There is no easy way; no quick fix. You have to work at it every single day for the rest of your life.
I say the right weight for your body instead of the correct weight or the ideal weight because I think what diet books and doctors and society considers the correct or ideal weight for someone, bears little or no resemblance to the weight that is right for someone. The right weight is when you both feel good and look good. For example, lots of diet books suggest that given my bone structure, I should be 125 pounds. I don't think I've ever been 125 pounds even when I was a not overweight school kid. We'll have to see. I think maybe 140 would do. Will have to see how I feel when I get to ye ole 170.
I have watched friends and family go through Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Dr. Bernstein, low carb, high carb, low protein, high protein, low fat, high fat and on and on and on and it boils down to the same thing. As soon as you come off the program, the weight goes back on because you go straight back to your old eating habits.
I find it mind boggling, appalling and sad that people shell out endless amounts of money and yet can't grasp that one simple fact.
Huh. And this was supposed to be a quick post. Go figure. Anyway, having broken the 270 mark, I now have one hundred pounds to go. Actually, one hundred and two will bring me back down to where I was ten or so years ago. As mentioned above, this has been a work in progress. Getting to this point has taken three years. So that's eighty pounds in three years.
Not a great deal when compared to the programs that tout lose 20 pounds in 20 weeks! but I know I won't see those pounds again because they've come off as a result of changes I made to my eating patterns because of being diagnosed with high blood pressure. And this time around it was done without adding any exercise.
And yes. You did read that right. At one point, I was 350 pounds.
So again, it's simplicity itself. If you can't give up eating, exercise more. If you hate exercising, eat less. You can't have it both ways. Well, you could. But frankly, stomach stapling is even more mind boggling crazy than handing over good money for something you can do yourself.
