How do you celebrate without food?

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  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    I'd celebrate a raise with buying something new to wear to work. Then again I use shopping the way some use food I think. I just like shopping
  • lgfrie
    lgfrie Posts: 1,449 Member
    Diatonic12 wrote: »
    @lgfrie I still have your post about alcohol up in the marquee lights. The wine sabotage. Cross-addiction or coaddiction, trading in food for alcohol or shopping or gambling or gasp, even exercise addiction or love addiction.

    I have a theory about those old neural pathways, deep grooves in the brain. I know we can make new ones but I don't know if we can ever get rid of those old ones. They just lay back in the weeds and wait for their time to pounce like a predator for its' prey. Sneaky snakes.

    When I ate it all back the first go-around, I had to dig down deep to the roots of what was really eating me. I was eating all my emotions away. Doing what we've always done will get us what we've always gotten. Mostly nothin'. After all, there's a reason they don't have any biggest loser reunion shows. They ate it all back.

    This time, I'm doing everything differently. I can't eat it back this time. We can't depend on others to constantly prop us UP. It's too exhausting and they have their own life to live. I like hearing about you and the wife. How you're doing everything. It's sounds really fun.

    Thanks for the kind words :)

    We look at the brain stuff the same general way, for sure. I strongly believe that even if I get to some perfect and thinnish weight like 180 (I'm male, 5'11"), which will never happen but let's just say it did, that I would still be an obese person at heart. Those neural "FEED ME NOW" pathways will always be there. Every once in a while I have a ferocious binge and while I always regret it and wish it didn't happen, it's almost good in a way that it does, because it reminds me of what I am and what I need to control. There are people who just don't give a F about food, don't really want much of it, don't think about it a lot, don't need any calorie counting or logging because they just eat the right amount, and I am never, ever, ever going to be one of them. My neural pathways are cut in stone; they are never going to reorganize themselves just because I want them to.

    I think they did have a biggest loser reunion show!! You might be able to find the vids on Youtube; I think I've seen a couple. Most did gain the weight back; a few didn't. Thinking about it, The Biggest Loser shows both sides of the diet challenge: It is very possible to lose a lot of weight, but exceedingly, painfully, immensely difficult to become a different person.

    I'm currently on a diet break. I guess Covid-19 finally wore me down. Too much time on my hands and not a lot to do. I toughed it out for months and did pretty well diet wise, but we did start slipping and I gained a few pounds back. I saw the writing on the wall - it was going to be a binary thing, either try to push through with the calorie deficit and watch it all fall apart in late night binges, or back off and get into maintenance mode for a while. So far so good. Not losing, but not gaining either. I'll take it.

  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    Confetti works, as long as someone else cleans it up. :)
    Congratulations on your raise!!
  • xayles
    xayles Posts: 32 Member
    New nail polish. Or a new charm for a bracelet for every stone you lose