Wed, Mar-08-06, 07:45
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Posts: 145
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Plan: Moderate low-carb
Stats: 186/140/135
BF:OnebigAB
Progress: 90%
Location: PA baby!
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Originally Posted by ItsTheWooo
Bakerchic what you are describing is exactly the kind of situation I"m describing. Ask yourself WHY is there nothing to do but eat. Is it because our lives consist entirely else of obligations and a lack of time to cultivate yourself?
A stressful unnatural lifestyle encourages food abuse, and, it also encourages the physiological processes that facilitate obesity. The word stress assumes a direct, obvious source of adversity - working sun up to sun down is stress. Stress is more complex than that. I am defining (excessive) stress as any factor which retards or prevents ideal health. Stress could also be a deprivation of emotionally fulfilling relationships with humans (for example, no family meal like you said). It could be our throwaway consumer culture conditioning us to unnaturally always look for the next and the largest, therefore preventing ever feeling fulfilled (and thus the perfect consumer is born). If that first big mac didn't hit the spot, get another. Eat and eat until you feel sick, and then, learn to associate that feeling with satisfaction (since you have no idea how to really perceive pleasure and enjoy yourself in any real way, since you have been conditioned to ignore value/substance...)
I am kinda confusing the point and probably others since I seem to use physical and psychological causes of obesity interchangably. One minute I talk about a psychological result (stresses and eating), the next a physical one (stresses and metabolic syndrome). I should also mention that I don't think the two are compartmentalized and that mental health is often a product of physical health, and physical health is affected by mental health.
Bakerchic, it sounds like what youa re saying is pretty much reaffirms my theory that eating problems (and obesity/health too) are the result of stress and unnatural/unhealthy living.
Would it be accurate to say your new lifestyle is:
1) Less stressful (because it)...
2) Allows you the freedom to be more you, and is less about the external obligations and confines of others and environment?
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Yes, exactly! Some people have no idea the effort you have to put into a lifestyle change. And most people, sorry if I'm incorrect, don't have a clue about the physiological responses/changes to diet as well. Probably because we're fed the mantra, "Eat less, weigh less" time and again. Frankly, I don't see how I could make it back in my old environment, and I doubt I would. There were too many emotional cues. If anybody thinks food isn't addictive, then I really don't know what to tell them, but I can say this; I have drawn a lot of similarities between me and a heroin junkie, too many to be coincidental. And am I correct in saying that addictions are physiological and psychological? So I am with you Woo, don't compartmentalize them, they're twins.
Also, anyone with food addictions out there- Do you ever notice that your cues operate on a time frame. Mine is around 7 o'clock, and I get very specific cravings for certain foods. Ice Cream namely, but it rarely varies. It's weird. Also, I get one in the early morn, for maple syrup. I mean, it makes common sense, syrup being a part of a breakfast entree, but one time, and this is real nasty- I was coming off a diet, and got the craving for it, so intense, I drank about a cup full. No joke. Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill, but I found that too odd to dismiss.
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