Woohoo! My hundredth post :-)
Posted by fillyjonk on kateharding.net: “I don’t feel the perverse need to count the number of breaths necessary to get my brain enough oxygen, and then reduce them by a third. I don’t mete out how much water I’m allowed, reasoning that getting enough to stay hydrated would be greedy. If the amount I eat is fueling the amount I do, then it’s the amount I need.”
Size acceptance groups have this big thing about how diets dont work. And, the part that ive really absorbed from that is that calorie counting is a big contributer to the “diet” mentality.
I didnt have my sleeve so I would be on a “diet.” I had my sleeve because it cured my need to eat in excess of what my body needs. My weight was stable at 320 for a year, I didnt gain or lose even when I binged. I do think that your weight set point comes when however you eat “naturally” intersects with however much you burn “naturally.” Aka, there are those that need to eat 800 calories a day and work out an hour each day to maintain their weight. However, if they ever ate more than that, or didnt work out that much, they would gain weight back until their calories intersect again.
I would rather not hit my goal weight, and instead stabalize at a point that I can sustain. I dont want to be forced to eat 800 calories a day for the rest of my life to be 160, when I can eat however many calories I eat “naturally,” and however much exercise I incorporate into my life. If I know I have to run an hour a day to stay at my weight, what happens when I cant run? Or go a week without running? I gain weight, then feel guilty about not running and the “diet guilt” comes up.
Id rather be fat than deal with the diet guilt. If I get to a point where I start gaining weight, i’ll take a look at where I am at that point, and what I could change. Until then, I eat my nice juicy steak and choose not to worry about it. :-)
