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- From: mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.big-folks
- Subject: Re: Look at how I used to look when I was fat...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.151155.27144@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:11:55 GMT
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- dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >
- >It's just been my own experience of being the lone fat man trapped
- >in a weight-loss support group with fat women (any number of times)
- >that the possibility that people might simply like to eat too much
- >was never ever explored. Pathology was assumed. We all needed to
- >find the Reason we ate so much.
-
- Steve makes a good point. I know I love to eat. On the other hand,
- consider the stress and strain of fighting one's weight over
- a period of years because one is neither unable to reduce one's eating
- nor able to accept being overweight.
-
- In other words, I suspect that there has to be a missing piece, whether
- it is physiology or psychology, that prevents many people from losing
- weight they say they want to lose (and in fact, try very hard to lose).
-
- The NLP folks simply say that we prefer pleasure (eating good food) over
- pain (deprivation) even though the short term "pain" leads to a long
- term pleasure (lower weight).
-
- And you also have the "insulin-resistance" camp (Atkins, Heller, etc) who
- claim that many overweight crave carbohydrates because of a blood
- chemistry disorder.
-
- Anyways, "love to eat" is definitely a piece of it. But if that was the
- only part, I don't think people would struggle so much with their weight.
-
- Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
- ...!uunet!inmet!mazur -- The Indigo Girls
-