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I lost 24 pounds in 2017. What worked for me was a regular exercise plan and recording everything I ate in My Fitness Pal. The rate was only about four pounds a month, though, which can get discouraging, but I think that at my age, it's the best I can hope for.
My biggest enemy is becoming obsessed with food. When and what I can eat next, etc.
I wish I could go back to thinking and eating as I did before I reached adulthood. I was too skinny, actually, but until I was an adult, I didn't eat things like cheese or mayonnaise. They turned my stomach to look at them. Same with foods like spaghetti--I saw a plate full of worms and would hardly eat anything. My mother overcooked all meat, so there was no fat left in any of it and you had to chew it to death to get it to the point where you could swallow it.
We rarely ate out, and there were so many foods I didn't try until I was an adult and went to work in the city. I never had a bagel until I was 20, or tacos until I was in my 30s. Really didn't eat Italian food--spaghetti and meatballs were a once-a-month thing when the food budget ran low.
On the other hand, we did eat cake and cookies of some sort every day, and sandwiches for lunch every day, and I wouldn't want to go back to that. Cereal for breakfast most mornings. Salad wasn't a thing yet back then. I don't remember my mother ever making a salad except for chunks of iceberg lettuce with sliced tomatoes that I drenched in Catalina dressing.
But I never thought about food or looked forward to food the way I do now. We ate because we had to, because it was time to eat.
Yeah, I think food has changed a lot. More chemicals, preservatives, bad fats, sugar in everything. This is likely even an established fact, for all I know. There wasn't as much obesity. I think there's a book out, 'Salt, Fat and Sugar.'. Here it is:
I lost 24 pounds in 2017. What worked for me was a regular exercise plan and recording everything I ate in My Fitness Pal. The rate was only about four pounds a month, though, which can get discouraging, but I think that at my age, it's the best I can hope for.
My biggest enemy is becoming obsessed with food. When and what I can eat next, etc.
I wish I could go back to thinking and eating as I did before I reached adulthood. I was too skinny, actually, but until I was an adult, I didn't eat things like cheese or mayonnaise. They turned my stomach to look at them. Same with foods like spaghetti--I saw a plate full of worms and would hardly eat anything. My mother overcooked all meat, so there was no fat left in any of it and you had to chew it to death to get it to the point where you could swallow it.
We rarely ate out, and there were so many foods I didn't try until I was an adult and went to work in the city. I never had a bagel until I was 20, or tacos until I was in my 30s. Really didn't eat Italian food--spaghetti and meatballs were a once-a-month thing when the food budget ran low.
On the other hand, we did eat cake and cookies of some sort every day, and sandwiches for lunch every day, and I wouldn't want to go back to that. Cereal for breakfast most mornings. Salad wasn't a thing yet back then. I don't remember my mother ever making a salad except for chunks of iceberg lettuce with sliced tomatoes that I drenched in Catalina dressing.
But I never thought about food or looked forward to food the way I do now. We ate because we had to, because it was time to eat.
Maybe I do need OA!
This illuminates my issue with the diet culture. People who follow programs like Weight Watchers spend so much time thinking about, planning for and obsessing over their food choices. As long as it's featured in a persons life they're doomed to struggle with their weight.
Think about some other common bodily functions, such as expelling waste. Can you imagine a person planning all day for their next bowel movement, which bathroom they'll want to use, what time of day to use it and making sure they have just the right type of toilet paper?
Until a person eats only when hungry and learns how to make sensible food choices when doing so they're going to have issues. I finished lunch and an hour or so later was starving. But it didn't make sense because I literally had just finished a meal. So I drank some water, took a short walk and popped in some chewing gum. Hunger went away and instead of indulging on a whim and eating something I'd regret, I elected to aim for a smarter plan.
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