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- From: susan@drseus.jsc.nasa.gov (Susan Shelton)
- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.233214.12159@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Company
- References: <63620079@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <17526@pitt.UUCP> <1992Nov19.232742.11565@spdcc.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:32:14 GMT
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- >
- >This "Geneen Roth" stuff seems to be particularly attractive to women,
- >for whatever reason, I don't know why. I haven't come across a man who
- >is inclined to push it. But it's mostly women who seem to be
- >brainwashed into thinking that there has to be some emotional basis to
- >their overeating and obesity and that "being nurturing to yourself"
- >somehow breaks this cycle. Well, maybe it breaks a cycle of dieting
- >and regain, and that such folks eventually maintain a higher total
- >bodyweight. I'd love to meet someone formerly fat who followed Roth's
- >recommendations and became thin, but I'm pretty skeptical!
-
- >Steve Dyer
- >dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
-
- I was about 30 pounds overweight and had been since I was 11 or 12. My most
- recent major weight loss was on Weight Watcher's 2 years ago when I lost the
- 30 pounds (actually I was still 1 1/2 pounds over my goal weight) and gained
- it back rapidly while still going to Weight Watcher's every week. A little
- less than a year ago I read two of Geneen Roth's books and decided to try
- eating what I wanted and being aware of when I'm full. I hadn't been on a
- scale since then until last week when I had a doctor's appointment. I weighed
- nine pounds less than I did when I quit Weight Watcher's. That's without
- being on any sort of diet whatsoever.
-
- Maybe you're mistaking eating whatever you want with binging. Perhaps when
- you were gaining your weight you were still trying to put yourself on a
- diet, even an unstructured one, which is why you ate more than you wanted to.
- When I was on Weight Watcher's (and every diet before that) I would do things
- like eat a whole box of ice cream sandwiches just because I had already
- blown it for the day. I would never binge like that now. There are times
- when I eat past being full, but I absolutely never eat to the point of feeling
- sick (something I used to do all of the time), simply because there's no
- pressure to because I know I can eat whatever I want when I get hungry
- again. Also, I would never do things like eat in the car on the way home
- from the grocery store, because I don't have the feeling that I have to eat
- as much as I can as fast as I can before I work up the will power to stop
- myself. I also can have good stuff at home without having to worry about
- binging. I have a major sweet tooth and always have something sweet at
- home. But now I can make a batch of cookies and it lasts a couple of weeks
- (instead of eating half of them the day I make them (well past the point
- of feeling sick) and then throwing the rest out in disgust). I buy packs of
- pop-tarts and every once in awhile I'll have one for breakfast and the
- rest of the time I won't think of them.
-
- I know losing 9 pounds in a year isn't a lot, but the slow pace is worth
- not having to worry about my weight and what I eat and who's watching
- me eat, etc. And I'm not worried about maintaining it because I don't
- have any diet to fall off of.
-
- Eating what you want doesn't mean being on a constant binge, it means trying
- to concentrate on when you're hungry and what you're hungry for. There
- are still things I have trouble with (I have the hardest time leaving
- food on my plate) but I'm working on it.
-
- At any rate I can't say I've become thin on Geneen Roth's recommendations (yet),but I have become thinner.
-
- I hope you are successful and happy in whatever method you use to lose
- weight. Good luck.
-