About overweight people who make excuses....
Is WHY, oh why do they try to bring people down to their level?
Why must they insist that people who have lost weight, and are down to goal (no, its not me I am talking about here) have problems with something else in place of food.
The person in question told a good egg, who is at goal weight, and has been for some time that she has replaced food with spending money.
I swear! If I hear that Dr Phill bullshit one more fucking time I am going to scream. Why must people psycho analyse shit all the time?
Why can't some one have actually conquered their daemons? Why must there still be an "addiction" that has replaced food? Personally, I get told that I have replaced food with exercise... Because I exercise for the recommended 30 minutes to an hour a day. The addict that I am!
Or is it just that I HAVE forgotten what it's like to be morbidly obese and making excuses for myself?
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
One thing I don't understand
Posted by Sammee at 1:10 PM
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Hear! Hear!
I have to say that I agree with you there. While I don't dispute the fact that some people do have addictive personalities and I'm sure that once they kick food addiction they can easily become addicted to something else whether it be shopping, alcohol or whatever. However, I wouldn't be surprised if that is less than 25% of the people. To automatically assume that though is absolutely atrocious (sp).
And I do not think that doing the recommended amount of exercise is an addiction I think it is what healthy people do to maintain their healthy lifestyle unlike how we were when we sat on our couches and ate Doritos and exercise was going to the fridge to get a pop.
Yeah, that's basically why I just left LBT. BJean saying that was an eye-opener for me (really surprised me, coming from her). It really made me start wondering exactly why I was still there, if one of the people I was calling a friend could be that nasty to someone so nice and I hadn't seen it coming. Her later passive-aggressive comment to me really was the straw that broke the camel's back, so I had a good cry at losing a friend (but really, if she can act like that, she was never a friend, I guess), changed my signature and left.
Waaaay before I became morbidly obese, I was an exercise addict - you can't get too much of a good thing LOL. Like I would go on these hour and a half runs and then force myself to stop out of fear that I might have to miss the next day's run if I overdid it. Golly, if a person is going to be addicted to something, let it be running!
Sadly I was in an accident and suffered major injuries which prevented all working out for several years, and every attempt to get back into shape met more injuries....
Now I'm morbidly obese. I don't make excuses for myself, but I do think you might have fogotten what it's like. If I try to exercise at this weight, my old injuries spring back in an instant (trust me, it's brought me to the physical therapist every time, sometimes unable to walk.) I bought a rower instead, and my old rotator cuff tear reared its head. My goal at this point, after the lap band, is to have my shoulder surgically repaired so I can exercise again. I miss it soooo much!
Also, when you're morbidly obese, you have too much insulin in your body, which drives down your blood sugar and causes your body to store more food as fat. My serum blood sugar has been tested at 50 two hours after a meal, when it should be elevated. Blood sugar should never drop below 70!
I'm sure this sounds like a load of excuses to you, but without the band, would you be where you are now? You say not, but read that magazine article about you - you did try for a year before getting banded. Now that you're thin enough to run, and thin enough that your metabolism is healthy and no longer hyperinsulinemic, you can run and exercise and don't crave garbage food all day.
I've spent the last four and a half years in a humiliating series of failed attempts to regain my health through diet and exercise. My hunger would overwhelm me at every attempt, and my injuries would prevent exercise. I hope and pray that the band will take off enough of my hunger to enable me to finally succeed.
Just be thankful, not judgmental!
Anyway, congrats on your success. I'm not criticizing you - just answering your question of whether I think you've forgotten. I hope that a few years after I get my band I, too, can forget what it was like to be morbidly obese!!! :o)
P.S. If you include lap band and other WLS as "doing something" about your obesity - then I agree that not doing so is just making excuses. I only meant that those who fail at diet and exercise are not making excuses, they're fighting a battle with a 95% failure rate. So I say, get the band or the RNY or whatever it takes.
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