Its a classic first post! Awesome, you should copy/paste it and make sure it has the date. Have it as a stickie in your frig or whatever.
Originally Posted by
Stricken
I have no idea if this is the right place for it, hope it is.
I am a female, 5'5" and 130-ish lbs. This might sound normal to some of you, and indeed it is 'normal' on the BMI scale, but for me... it is not.
Age? or How old are you?, I find it stupid when people say I am this age young. Dude, accept it is freakin human nature, you are born, you live, you die, completion of a cycle.
Originally Posted by
Stricken
I spent the last three years of my life pretty much sitting around on my ass most of the day or sleeping. I would drink quite a few cans of soda a day, I would eat 4 or 5 milky ways or butterfingers or some other high-calorie, high fat candy bars. A DAY. And then one measley meal... maybe healthy, maybe not (steak and green beans with lots of butter, or cheese in a can on crackers with pepperoni, anyone?)
I was NOT living. If you call that living, you're freaking weird, I am sorry. I needed some treats in my life...
What do you expect?
Until you take care of the demons (or whatever you want to call it), you will still relapse. You have to gauge your stressors and what triggers them. Your problem is not the food, from your tone, the way you come across clearly shows there are much more things going on on that head.
I highly suggest you attend a nutritionist, maybe some kind of counselor, who knows yoga classes etc.
I do not follow a diet, its called healthy eating. Start with baby steps, first quit the pizza, hamburgers, then little by little french fries and sodas. For example it took me a while to migrate from white to brown sugar, and from whole milk to low fat 1% milk, from white rice to brown, from Coca-Coca to green unsweetend tea. I did not do it in one day, impossible, at least for me. Sodas, I would drink one every other day, and if I wanted one I had to workout, etc. Now I just consume one or two a month "maybe" whenever I go to a restaurant or a party, and put a stirrer to pretend its rum and coke, and this way people dont offer me beer or a drink.
That way of living you cannot "live" is the one I happily live. I go to work morale days where they have hamburgers, french fries, sodas, Lays, beer, etc. I bring my own bag pack of fruits, mixed nuts, unsweetend tea etc. You have to understand that having pleasure via material things is not bad, but when one gets attached to those things thats when one is a slave, a prisoner to material things. To me food is a means to live because without it I die. It is not easy, or else everyone would be skinny. One day I woke up and said enough of this junk and crappy lifestyle, tired of feeling tired, tired of getting sick, the lack of motivation, sex drive, of a miserable quality of life.
It does not mean I will never again start eating fast/ processed foods, drinking beer etc,but as long as I meditate, monitor my stressors and do a mental check every now and then (and to accept who I am, to feel comfortable on my skin), I will stay on the right path of healthy living in body and soul. Be honest to yourself and realistic about your goals. I watch tv and I get sick whenever I see fast food commercials, even food network or the travel channel cooking section, DIners drivers and dives (nasty), just the constant bombardment of junk our society is fed via the media sources.
It seems you have hit the wall of you are not a teenager anymore, you are not looked by the opposite sex that much, and who knows if teenages look at you as an old person. Like the movie, Reality Bites, and even those that laugh at us are not exempt of such "fate" and "awakening".
Originally Posted by
Stricken
At the same time as doing this I was doing first, Wii Fit, and then, p90X. I even stuck with the p90x after I quit the diet. But I quit the p90x when I discovered... I lost no weight. None.
The only method to burn calories is that less calories come in compared to the calories that are burned. Well, in fact it took a few relapses until finally I emptied the pantry with no Lays, Doritos, brownies (I love brownies), Coca-Cola, white rice, etc. I got a nice six pack, feel stronger than ever, it does not mean every now and then I can have a treat. The other day went to Cruisers Grill and had myself a good BarBq burger with homestyle seasoned fries, and to be real the next day I felt I had poison in my body. Call me crazy, but I love the pizza from Costco, but even as much as I love cannot eat it. I eat so healthy that if I do grab a bite better be near a bathroom.
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I go to these bike rides and girls who have a few extra pounds ride darn good. In fact women who used to be over-weight once they lose the extra fat tend to be very strong riders. The body developed all that muscle mass to cope with the extra weight. If done correctly the muscle mass stays (although muscle fibers are always the same, they just get smaller or bigger) and be able to have sculpt body.
Once again food to me is consumed as a means of survival, although coffee is the only exception, lol.