Ck out NY Times blog post! Link below...
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Click on this link - further affirmation of LCHF -
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/crossing-the-finish-line-25-pounds-lighter-guilt-and-all/?WT.mc_id=2015-KWP-AUD_DEV&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK&kwp_0=50871&kwp_4=289100&kwp_1=199459
The runner states: I also changed the way I ate. I didn’t count calories or go on what I’d call a diet, but I cut back on carbs and alcohol and ate more full-fat foods: whole fat yogurt, bacon, dark chicken with the skin on and vegetables sautéed in butter. I learned new recipes to fit in with a new way of eating, one devoid of diet foods and instead focused on real food. I never felt hungry, and food tasted so good."
AMEN!!!
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/crossing-the-finish-line-25-pounds-lighter-guilt-and-all/?WT.mc_id=2015-KWP-AUD_DEV&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK&kwp_0=50871&kwp_4=289100&kwp_1=199459
The runner states: I also changed the way I ate. I didn’t count calories or go on what I’d call a diet, but I cut back on carbs and alcohol and ate more full-fat foods: whole fat yogurt, bacon, dark chicken with the skin on and vegetables sautéed in butter. I learned new recipes to fit in with a new way of eating, one devoid of diet foods and instead focused on real food. I never felt hungry, and food tasted so good."
AMEN!!!
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Good article, thanks for sharing
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The article is awesome, but holy cow the comments! Talk about a clear illustration of "crab mentality." It's astounding how much people put others down for losing a little weight (especially if they don't look like they "need" it by today's standards - ie. they're not 100lb+ overweight) or being successful in general. :noway: (And that, kids, is why one should avoid reading comments, unless you're a masochist. :P)0
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Well the comments are always either 1 of 2 things: extremely hilarious or extremely frustrating.0
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I guess everyone should wait until they're at least 100lbs overweight to start trying to lose huh? Lol
Wow, what a way to think! All I can say is I'm glad I caught myself before I got that far.
I just read the article and came back to edit.
I started out in May at the same weight as the person in the article and I've lost 29lbs and feel better than I ever have in my life and am aiming to lose another 10 lbs. If I were to have learned to "love myself the way I was" like those people in the comments suggest, I would've never known how much stronger, healthier and happier I could feel without sugar calling the shots every day.
Those people are ridiculous and I find it sad because I know it's just because they don't know how to make it happen.
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I'm sitting here trying to read through all of the comments, and I've not encountered any of the craziness mentioned above, and I'm easily 50+ of the 131 comments on the article. I did, however, put the comments with the oldest ones first...
That being said, @Sunny_Bunny_, I just wanted to offer you a slightly different perspective on loving myself at 319 pounds. For me personally, if I had not learned to love and accept myself at my heaviest and unhealthiest, I would never have decided that I was worth fighting for, that I deserved health and happiness.
There is a whole HUGE difference in accepting one's self and loving one's self at any shape and size - and allowing that to become complacency and laziness. Just because I loved my fat self far more than I did my skinny, 140 pound 19-year old self did not mean I was content to remain that way.
I had to do a lot of growing up and maturing, loving and accepting of myself to get to the point where I could see the true me cowering under all of that, to learn her again, and decide she was worth fighting for. Obviously, I'm still in that fight, and I've no intention of stopping, no matter how long it takes or how many setbacks I encounter.
That being said, I could never, ever have made it to where I am now, 245, 10-15 points lower on my BMI, and far healthier now than in decades, if I had not loved and accepted myself at 319 pounds. In fact, I had to give up all the things I was holding on to, as well. I cleared out my closet of old clothing I'd been holding on to for when I dropped back down to "that size." I kept a few things, but decluttering my mind and my closet were what left me prepared for when an opportunity to get back on the road to reclaiming my health came along.
I know, without a shadow of a doubt that if I hadn't given up on the old ideals of reality, if I had not accepted where I was at the time, that I would not have been ready and able to start getting healthier again. I would never have come back to MFP. I would never have started researching my underlying health issues. I would never have met amazing ladies and gents like @Dragonwolf and @Alliwan who both lead me to this group. I would never have my my friend @Yoovie, who challenged my whole way of thinking about and accepting that I couldn't do and achieve things. I would never have met my new BFF, @baykay1010, who has me looking at myself in whole different ways, just because of how SHE sees me... I would never have embraced what my physicians had been telling me for years, that things were possible...
So, I completely understand what you are saying, that complacency and laziness and giving up that come along with that "acceptance" of one's self in any shape are deadly... but loving and accepting myself did not mean that I was not driven to better myself, either... It's semantics, I suppose. But learning to love and accept myself opened my mind to remembering my value, and to the fact that things were possible, despite having felt impossible for 20 years...
Sorry for taking so long to write this, but I just wanted to share a different side of how someone learning to love herself the way she was could be empowering, rather than stifling....
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baconslave wrote: »Well the comments are always either 1 of 2 things: extremely hilarious or extremely frustrating.
I almost never read the comments from anything! It really seems like the lowest common denominator are all jacked up to throw in their two cents.0 -
robosphere wrote: »baconslave wrote: »Well the comments are always either 1 of 2 things: extremely hilarious or extremely frustrating.
I almost never read the comments from anything! It really seems like the lowest common denominator are all jacked up to throw in their two cents.
I love comments. They can show the mind sets that are out there which is important I think when doing research now that I am starting to understand epigenetics and the role they play in our state of health.
curezone.org/forums/am.asp?i=2149487
"This new perspective on human biology does not view the body as just a mechanical device, but incorporates the role of mind and spirit. This breakthrough in the science of biology is fundamental to healing, for it shows us that when we change our perceptions or beliefs we send totally different messages to our cells. In effect, we reprogram them. This new biology reveals why people can have spontaneous remissions or recover from injuries thought to be permanent disabilities.............."
Below one will find more Googling points if interested in how our minds can control our genes.
articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/11/epigenetic-vs-determinism.aspx
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@KnitOrMiss -- yeah, the way the comments are organized makes it hard to keep track of any given set. Newspaper outlets are horrible for that. A lot of the ones that I saw were equating wanting to lose weight with hating oneself. Yes, that if you choose to lose weight, particularly if you're only "a little" overweight, then you must hate yourself. A lot of them were also boo-hooing about her being an "exercise fanatic" or whatever. It was astounding.0
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Dragonwolf wrote: »@KnitOrMiss -- yeah, the way the comments are organized makes it hard to keep track of any given set. Newspaper outlets are horrible for that. A lot of the ones that I saw were equating wanting to lose weight with hating oneself. Yes, that if you choose to lose weight, particularly if you're only "a little" overweight, then you must hate yourself. A lot of them were also boo-hooing about her being an "exercise fanatic" or whatever. It was astounding.
That was exactly what I saw too. They were acting angry that her story was even being shared as if it was directly telling each one of them to their face that they are fat and lazy and should do the same thing she did in exactly the same way.0 -
I didn't see too many hateful comments. Most were complementary. A few militant vegans, sure, but overall not bad.0
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It really seems like the lowest common denominator are all jacked up to throw in their two cents.
Welcome to "SELFIE NATION"… the obsessed culture of "it's all about ME"….being an older adult I have seen so many changes in our culture over decades...but the day people started with the camera phones..posting images themselves from every angle and pose… endless, and totally inane. The media/online/ and TV shows with the call to "tweet your opinion" brings a flood of self important opinions, most of them clueless.0
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