"Nothing tastes as good as thin feels"

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Amen! I’m a size 18/20 and for a size 18/20 I look pretty damn good (Punha does a good job of reminding me of that every day). Sure I could lose the weight if I wanted to eat salads every day for lunch and dinner every day of the week and cut out all the sweets and then go to the gym and bust my assfor the rest of my life but that would never make me as happy as a piece of tiramisu or a batch of my homemade chocolate chip cookies. I’m healthy even if I’m a little overweight and for the most part I’m happy with my size. Sure there are days that I spend pining to be thin but when I think of the price (no more tiramisu!) then I figure it’s just not worth it. I would much rather be fat and happy than to be thin and have to pass on all the yummy foods in your list.

Being confident and happy with who you are feels almost as good as tiramisu tastes. :smiley:

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Marry me, Athena.

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hehehe, I think Mr. Athena would have a problem with that.

However, I will tell you… my scones rock. They rock beyond rockage. No dry hockey puck things are these… slightly sweet, moist, yet crumbly in a scone like way. Fresh peach and cream cheese are good, but so are wild blueberry (freshly picked, of course) and maple syrup. Or raspberry and pecan. Mmmm… the raspberry bushes oughta be pumping out the berries in a few more weeks. Let’s hope it’s a good blueberry season, too!

Oh yeah, almost forgot the blackberries from my parent’s blackberry bushes. Those are good in scones, too.

Mmmm… scones…

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I need to lose weight for the mere fact that I don’t want to develop the adult diabetes you can get from being overweight. So for the past 7 1/2 weeks I haven’t eaten shit and I run 4 miles a day. All I’m doing is GAINING weight. I can verify that NOTHING does NOT taste as good as thin feels because NOTHING is TASTELESS!

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Because that’s the completely wrong way to lose weight. All you’re going to do is lose muscle once you do start to lose weight. Your body is holding on to every ounce of fat you have because you’re starving yourself.

Your body doesn’t like to lose its fat. Given the choice, it’ll use your muscle first. Your body burns carbohydrates, fats and proteins for fuel. If you’re giving your body plenty of protein, your muscles will use that, forcing your body to choose between carbohydrates and fats (your own or what you put in your mouth). If you restrict your carbohydrates from your diet, then your body can only choose fats (your own or what you put in your mouth). If you only feed your body enough fat to feel full, it won’t have enough to burn for energy and will have to use your body fat instead.

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From a site I happen to be reading at the same time as this.

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Whole milk…ahhh!

I usually drink skim milk. I can’t help being obsessive about my body size and wanting to continue wearing the same size pants I’ve been wearing for the past 15 years. But a couple of times the jug of skim milk I bought turned out to be mislabled whole milk. What a difference! The whole milk is so snowy white it almost glows, compared to the duller look of skim.

Oh well.

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I’m not starving myself, I meant I’m not eating any of the wonderful things the author had listed. I eat between 1200 -1500 caloriesd a day consisting of fruits, veggies and lean meat. But still gaining weight.

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Ah, then perhaps it’s increased muscle from your running.

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I’m hoping so because this is getting really depressing. Salads (at least sensible ones) are sooo boring. The worst part about all of this is to not see daily hard work paying off. I feel that I don’t have any control, as if there is no rhyme or reason for the gain. So, for the sake of my sanity I’m going with gaining muscle!

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[One mark of someone who is headed in the right direction nutrion-wise is:

There is internal, personal satisfaction from eating right and being healthy, and it becomes much more rewarding than the feelings of guilt one experiences after cheating, or maintaining bad nutritional habits.

That’s when you’ve turned the corner, so to speak…when you are happy - genuinely happy - to eat well day after day…but you are miserable or disappointed when you spend the day clogging your arteries.

Until this point is reached, long term success is in jeopardy - not impossible, but in jeopardy.

Eating right should eventually feel good, feel satisfying and have an overall benefit to your life that you are happy to be experiencing. You shouldn’t feel like you are ‘on a diet’ or ‘fighting to stay on the plan’. If so, long term success is at risk.]

This is so well-said. As someone who has recently (like in the past year) finally turned that corner, it’s so true. Right now, everyone in the building where I work is doing Atkins. Well, almost everyone. In the last year, I’ve lost 25 pounds, and yeah, it’s taken me a year, and yeah, I’ve been exercising a LOT, but I finally banned anything with the words “fat free” or “low fat” from my house. I eat foods I enjoy, which is so much more important to me than being “thin”. So while most of my co-workers are running around eating low carb bars and have stopped eating some things they love, I had pizza last night and enjoyed every bite. I had the most amazing Italian food last week and LOVED it. I have also had some incredible fresh from the garden vegetables sauteed in olive oil with garlic and OMG they were good.

I no longer want to be “thin”. I want to be healthy. I want to be fit. My ideal build, if we were comparing ourselves to celebrities, would be Angela Bassett – she is totally BUFF. And I want to be happy, and I get so much pleasure out of good food. But finally I can stop at ONE serving of whatever tastes better than thin feels.

It’s absolutely wonderful when you finally discover you can eat what you like and lose weight, and it’s no gimmick or trick, it’s just moderation.

Jess

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Oh yeah, and 1ofthegulls… I eat salad dressing too. The real stuff. I finally decided that thin people eat salad dressing all the time, so I bought a jar of Marie’s Chunky Bleu Cheese dressing, and I use a big ol’ tbsp of it and mix it all in with my salad. I’m still losing, so I’m sticking with my yummy dressing. :slight_smile:

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I used to like this saying. I thought it was good to keep things in perspective.

But now that I’ve lost the weight, and been struggling to maintain my goal for almost six years, I don’t like the saying at all.

Yes, sometimes it DOES taste better than being thin, and I’ll eat it, consequences be damned.

I haven’t had pizza in a really long while, and that’s one of those things that sometimes is more worth it than being svelte.

So I too have a similar list of foods that I must give in to every once in a while, consequences be damned.

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When I read the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be about pro-ana sites.

Pretty much sums up my feelings.

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I know the feeling. I felt like that for the last seven years, when I started exercise and then about 2 1/2 years ago weight lifting and ballooned up from 125 to 194 lbs and 40% body fat (I’m 5’3"). I was so frustrated, depressed and guilty about every thing I ate. I still have about 12 lbs to go to reach my first goal of 150, though I suspect 140 will be my ideal weight.

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anything less and the cows would be offended. Seriously. I kid you not.

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I ate pizza two nights ago, just with a different crust. And don’t knock the low carb bars until you’ve tried them. :slight_smile: The Atkin’s chocolate decadence bars taste like brownies and are so yummy! I don’t mind giving up pasta. I’ll probably give it up for good, even once I’ve lost weight. It’s always been something I simply ate. Now bread is something that will (and in small quantities has) definitely go back in my diet. Potatoes? Eh, doubtful. I only really like chips and those are never healthy. Chocolate chip cookies? It’s worth the extra money for the low carb ones every now and then.

Fresh garden vegetables sauteed in olive oil with garlic? Sounds yummy! Sign me up. I like to stir fry sugar snap peas, fresh button mushrooms, onion and bell pepper in a bit of soy sauce until everything is nice and crisp and eat that, either as a side or with beef or chicken.

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I personally don’t like the Atkins bars…well I like one…I tolerate it much better…the chocolate coconut one. Other than that, blech. But hey, to each his own.

I have found that as I merrily (yeah right) diet along, my tastes become more snobbish i.e., if I need pizza (and sometimes yes it’s a NEED), I won’t just go to any place and get it, Ihave higher standards and must get one from a really really really good place. If I’m gonna screw up my plan for the day, it might as well be done in style. lol

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You can still eat whatever you want and be thin, just don’t eat very much of it. Losing weight is hard, but your body will eventually adapt to the lower weight. Sure if you’re 280 your body needs to have a whole pizza and cheesecake to maintain that weight. But if you get down to 180 your body will eventually be just as satisfied with one slice of pizza and one piece of cheesecake.

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Oops! Didn’t mean to make it look like I thought fresh garden veggies were a no-no for people on Atkins – I only meant to show that I’ve found a new love for foods that are considered healthy, as well as enjoying foods many dieters, no matter WHAT plan they’re on, consider taboo.

For the record, I’ve done low carb (but it was also low fat) and lost 82 pounds in 7-1/2 months – this was about 6 years ago. I was thrilled, of course, but as soon as I ate my first potato, I gained 5 pounds right away. It was freaky. 50 lbs heavier, I realized I’d lost all that weight so quickly because I was only eating 900 calories a day (when you take out fat and carbs, what else is there?), so I couldn’t help but lose. I cringe to think of the damage I did to my body with that. I was taking those herbs that had mah-muang in them too. Sigh. :frowning:

I just think (and this is jmho) that if I can lose weight and be healthy and still eat pasta, which I love, and pizza, which I love, and whatever else I love, I’d much rather do it that way than to give anything up. I want to have my cake and eat it too. :stuck_out_tongue:

Jess