weighing food = eating disorder
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Do you WANT to lose weight?
Sure you do.
When people tell you that you look fine, do you feel a little offended that they are making that up to make you feel good about yourself?
All females will look their best at 20-25 % total body fat.
Ever try to attack the eating side of the equation through hunger control?
Folks thing that hunger is something that is locked in stone. But the sensation of hunger starts out as signals from the stomach that it is not as full as it is used to being. That gets processed by the brain, with input from almost every part of the brain, so that for the obese this sensation drives them to eat. A lot.
But the brain is plastic. You can rewire it. You can attenuate the sensation of an empty stomach with the urge to eat.
Want to try?
First, eat small volume meals, as many as you want, to shrink the volume of the stomach. Count calories if you like, but that is not important.
You might be surprised at how you will feel. You might start losing weight.
After a couple weeks of this, start cutting down on the number of meals you eat.
I guarantee you WILL be surprised at how you feel and your change in hunger urges.
Ultimately, the goal is to skip breakfast, and eat your first meal of the day at noon or so. Not only will the fat-burning process be extended in the morning, but you will further get used to working and living your life on an empty stomach.
Your brain will re-wire. You will be a new person. You will gradually lose weight.
Look at the freebie pages in the kIindle version of Dr. John Hagan's "Breakfast: The least important meal of the day."
Take control of your life. Sky's the limit.
You go girl!
Hi Steve!
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It's true if you become literally obsessed. It can become a habit. Counting calories really isn't important, quality matters more than quantity.0
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You can't measure what you don't track.
It's ok to keep track of your money, but it's not ok to measure your food? People are whacked out of their minds.
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Spend too much money - you get broke, or worse, in debt
Eat too many calories you get fat, or worse, unhealthy.
Everything needs moderation and awareness. Blindly eating however much you want is no different than overspending your budget.0 -
It's true if you become literally obsessed. It can become a habit. Counting calories really isn't important, quality matters more than quantity.
Not for weight loss.0 -
I was chatting with some family members and we got on the topic of weight loss. I mentioned that since I've been exercising and counting calories, I've lost a few pounds. I started to go into detail about how I weigh my food so I can know how much I'm actually eating, and my aunt said "but only people with eating disorders do that! You'll become anorexic obsessing over food."
Have any of you been told this?
What do you say?
I just switched the subject.
probably best to humour them. it's obviously not a specific eating disorder trait... by the dsm-5 or otherwise... it's just being intelligent and being exact. they're probably jealous lol0 -
Weighing food - not eating disorder...
This is an eating disorder:
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I weigh all my food some people think that's its crazy until I show them how I used to look then they ask me how I did it.0
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wow, that is the first time I have heard that... I have been at this for 2 years, I've lost 135 pounds...and I still weight my food. My answer back would be simply, that you are learning what healthy portions look like... keep up the great work! and keep weighing and measuring... it keeps you honest!0
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Calorie counting in general can lead to a lot of disordered thinking...obviously it doesn't mean that everyone who counts calories or weighs and measures everything has an ED or disordered thinking, but many do. There is plenty of evidence right here on MFP.
If you can weigh and measure and track your intake while still maintaining and/or developing a healthy relationship with food then it is the best way to go in my estimation...but people often do go down a very dark road when they start doing this stuff. For those that suffer ED, it is generally not recommended to count calories or weigh and measure their portions, etc as it often triggers their disorder.
I actually find that weighing my food actually curbs my eating disorder. Eating disorders are about control. It's just as easy to put 1500 cals (or whatever) in my mouth as it is to put 0 cals in my mouth by weighing and keeping proper portions. It's always a control thing, but at least in one way I'm still getting the nutrients I need and working toward the goal.0 -
Kind of seems to me that she might feel threatened by your resolve to get to a healthy weight.0
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Hi Steve!
Omgosh, this is so cute and funny!! :flowerforyou:0 -
I don't usually tell people that I count my calories because I don't want people to have the wrong idea. Although I do mention it sometimes. But, some people think that any kind of awareness of calories, thinking about calories, watching what you eat is disordered eating. Those are their own issues and/or lack of proper understanding. Also, it seems that some people think that once you lose weight you will just keep losing it. I only lost around 5 or 10 pounds at most, but people were worried I would continue to lose weight. I've maintained this same weight for almost 2 years now. Sometimes people will tell me I look thin and ask me if I lost more weight. The answer is that I haven't lost weight, my weight is the same, or I may even weigh up to 5 pounds more than the last time they saw me. My weight fluctuates within a 5 pound range. But, all of their worries are unfounded. People realize that now that they see me the same weight as I was a year ago, and when they see me eating sundaes and cake and pizza. But, most people got it all along that I just work on my health and fitness.
Oh, I also just want to add that it was really only two people that expressed worries. One of them had recently gained 60 pounds, so she had a new concept of "normal". And the other person had her own struggles, so sometimes projects that onto others.0 -
Poppycock.
If you don't weigh it how do you know what weight to put in mfp?
After awhile you get good at guestimating. But to start with you have no idea how much anything weighs and therefore can't enter anything even remotely accurately.
From what I've seen and experienced, eating disorders seem tied with an obsession about food as an enemy, something to avoid and hide from. Food is fuel. If you over fill the tank bad things happen.v If you under fill the tank bad things happen. Being able to measure what goes in is sensible. The bonus is it tastes goooooooood.0 -
I've been laughed at for what I do, but I've not heard it equated to an eating disorder. The one person who laughed at me is extremely overweight, so I didn't even respond.0
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But...what if I spend all my money on quality things?? Quality over quantity, right? :-PIt's true if you become literally obsessed. It can become a habit. Counting calories really isn't important, quality matters more than quantity.
Not for weight loss.
Joking aside, I think everyone could benefit from a food scale; as a whole, we lack serious awareness of proper portion sizes and nutrition value just using our eyeballs. I have learned so much using my scale for almost a year. Tare is my best friend. There is a difference between taking control of your diet and letting controlling your diet control you.0 -
Just goes to show the state of the information that's out there. The latest lifestyle change, eating method, cleanse, diet book, brain rewiring, you name it will always be more sexy and "normal" than buying a $10 scale and measuring what you out into your body.0
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Some people say calorie counting in itself is an eating disorder which is a load of bull. It can lead to eating disorders, but it's not likely. Don't listen to them, it won't happen. We are only trying to get a weight loss, and if we don't measure, then we won't get it.0
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Personally, I've never been healthier mentally about food since I've been weighing it. I've learned the value of it and enjoy every mouthful, I know when I'm fuelling properly and feel positive and that my food is 'good'. I've also lost the fear of food and gaining weight. The negative emotions have been removed. I'm an anxious person, and now eating is a joy, and I'm happier with my body than I've ever been.
I've learned to trust thermogenics, maths and science. I feel completely safe in my numbers.
Not giving up major food groups, food timings or any of the other 'diets' 'fads' or 'detoxes' that screwed me over for decades.
You need to man up in front of your therapist and tell her the positives it brings you, and educate her. My therapists have often dominated me with their ideas, and even triggered behaviours in me because of my lack of confidence and boundaries and my extreme open minded ness. This is a good opportunity to assert yourself and out your foot down.
Yes, it is a 'behaviour' perhaps a little unusual, but it's better than what you were doing before and it gives you control to fuel your body enough for optimum health, not for starvation.
I'd also ask myself if I was seeing the right person, a good experienced therapist is a rare creature. They don't have ALL the answers and sometimes they are just...wrong. They're only human, but you can get some very good results anyway, just be watchful, it's ok to disagree about some things.1 -
Depends on your goals I guess. If weighing your food aids you in reaching your goals, why is it considered a disorder?
if I set a montly budget on my spending and I track it through my online bank account, I have a disorder for that as well?
I like this. Great analogy.
I often say that about the budget thing...but then I remember most people have terrible financial sense too. I guess some people are happier being more conscious about their lives and are used to being honest with themselves.
I think haphazardly eating is weird and one day we are going to look back and laugh. I can imagine wearing a chip one day that automatically gauges things as you go. That, or our survival mechanism kicks in and we develop some seriously strong satiety hormones in generations to come. Right now, we have an obscene excess of food and no off switches. I could easily eat and drink three times as much as I do now and not feel too full. Tracking works to keep me healthy as I can be. It only takes a few minutes a day.1 -
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Of course plenty of people weigh their food and do not have eating disorders. That said, I think that people on here who state that they have anxiety attacks when they cannot weigh their food and avoid social situations for that reason have some tendencies in that direction. If it's controlling someone's life to that extent, they may be headed for problems.0
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The only gip I have ever got is from my mother who generally wafts about a kitchen throwing things in the general direction of a pot and then goes spare when I try to get my favourite recipes off her and force her to put measurements to things.
Seriously though - I tend to just tell people when they ask if I have lost weight "Yes, just eating sensibly and exercising more" and I leave it at that. I have had people criticise me for "calorie control" my choice of bread, veggies... lord even my afternoon coffee and banana is seen as the tools of the devil!
I cook a lot with recipes and so measuring is kinda second nature in that respect (and I even got mocked for laminating a recipe ... !)
People are going to find fault with anything if they want to so just do your thing and keep on going downwards weight wise!0 -
:laugh:I'd like to see her bake a cake if she thinks measuring things is disordered.0
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I've had my family tell me the same thing; I'm not planning to do it for the rest of my life, since millions of people go without weighing all their food and are at a normal weight, and while I've never been overweight, nutrition became more important to me as I started exercising more and I needed to know where the mistakes were that were preventing me from my desired results.
One trick I use in the house is measure things like portions of cereal or oats once, and always eat them in the same bowl where you really can't put more in than that amount. I do ALWAYS weigh my calorie dense foods like meats, nuts, fish and butter, measure my oil in spoons when I'm cooking, but Im less strict with my veggies, but it's very hard to go 100s of calories over with that.
it's just silly, though, you can't win either way: people who have excess weight are judged for not watching their portions, and people who have a normal weight are being judged when you're mindful of your portions: I really think *sometimes* it stems from the mentality that people want to see you do good, but not better than them.
As in, they don't care if you gain weight, but only if you have something to lose and they get to tell you how to do it. And then there are those that think being mindful equals anorexia, which I suppose it's good to worry about someone if you want them to be healthy, but it'd be great if people were a bit more educated about eating disorders as it goes much further and deeper than that.0 -
Weighing food helps with people who overeat or need portion control. As someone else said people with eating disorders have a fear of food and/or gaining weight not weighing their food.0
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Chronic overeating is also an eating disorder. I don't think weighing food necessarily is. I mean, if you were thin already, and were weighing food and not wanting to eat something because it had 3 calories more than what you planned... it would be an issue. But just weighing food to get a proper portion size? Nah. I would say that weighing is just one more way of measuring, and everyone measures when they are following a recipe, (or at least they should), and you are following a recipe for a healthy body.
Now, believe it or not, I've been encouraged by others to lighten up, go ahead and have a piece of cake, you don't need to lose weight, yada yada yada....
Yeah, I'm morbidly obese... no matter what guidelines you look at, BMI, Ideal weight, bodyfat percentage, all show me to be obese, but there are still people telling me I don't need to lose weight.... Whatever.
Do you WANT to lose weight?
Sure you do.
When people tell you that you look fine, do you feel a little offended that they are making that up to make you feel good about yourself?
All females will look their best at 20-25 % total body fat.
Ever try to attack the eating side of the equation through hunger control?
Folks thing that hunger is something that is locked in stone. But the sensation of hunger starts out as signals from the stomach that it is not as full as it is used to being. That gets processed by the brain, with input from almost every part of the brain, so that for the obese this sensation drives them to eat. A lot.
But the brain is plastic. You can rewire it. You can attenuate the sensation of an empty stomach with the urge to eat.
Want to try?
First, eat small volume meals, as many as you want, to shrink the volume of the stomach. Count calories if you like, but that is not important.
You might be surprised at how you will feel. You might start losing weight.
After a couple weeks of this, start cutting down on the number of meals you eat.
I guarantee you WILL be surprised at how you feel and your change in hunger urges.
Ultimately, the goal is to skip breakfast, and eat your first meal of the day at noon or so. Not only will the fat-burning process be extended in the morning, but you will further get used to working and living your life on an empty stomach.
Your brain will re-wire. You will be a new person. You will gradually lose weight.
Look at the freebie pages in the kIindle version of Dr. John Hagan's "Breakfast: The least important meal of the day."
Take control of your life. Sky's the limit.
You go girl!
Thanks, I'm losing weight just fine and eating breakfast. My point was that no matter what you do, someone is going to disapprove. In the OP's case, someone disapproved of her weighing food, in my case I've had people disapprove of me losing weight in the first place ( not everyone by the way, just some people). And now I'm having someone disapprove because I prefer to eat breakfast :laugh:
Oh, and this wasn't a case of someone trying to make me feel good by saying I look great or something, it was someone seriously trying to convince me my mindset was all wrong to think about my weight as being important at all. One of those, "Its what's on the inside that counts" people. Well, it is more important to me to be of high moral character and to be a nice person than it is to be thin, but it is also important for me to be healthy and be alive to BE that nice, likeable person!
Anyway, I've tried intermittent fasting, and I gained weight on it, there is no one right way for every person... and for me, counting my calories and making sure to get enough protein is what works.
But it's NOT working.
Right?
You admit that you are still morbidly obese.
And there is one right way for everyone. To say weight loss is different for everyone is a complete cop-out.
Talk to the next "naturally" thin person you get to know and ask them about their eating habits and hunger and the like.
Your metabolism and genetics is EXACTLY like theirs.
They have learned to control hunger.
So can you.
This is not intermittent fasting, by the way.
The point is to get you down to eating two meals a day from three or more.
The key and first step in weight loss is to be honest with yourself.
Actually, it IS working. Yes I'm still obese. I have lost 56 pounds in less than 7 months, and am continuing to lose weight. Thanks for sticking your nose in, I didn't ask for advice. The OP did, but I just shared what happened with me that related to the OP's story.
If I started things your way, and lets say it did work (which is questionable, but for the sake of argument we'll say it would), the weight would not disappear overnight. It would still take time, the method I am using now takes time.
The fact that it takes time does not mean a method doesn't work.
I haven't seen any method that takes 150 pounds off in a week, not even starvation does that. So yes, counting calories and such IS working for me. If skipping breakfast works for you, fine, skip breakfast. Since I get up at 4:30 AM I prefer to eat by around 8:00-9:00.1 -
Chronic overeating is also an eating disorder. I don't think weighing food necessarily is. I mean, if you were thin already, and were weighing food and not wanting to eat something because it had 3 calories more than what you planned... it would be an issue. But just weighing food to get a proper portion size? Nah. I would say that weighing is just one more way of measuring, and everyone measures when they are following a recipe, (or at least they should), and you are following a recipe for a healthy body.
Now, believe it or not, I've been encouraged by others to lighten up, go ahead and have a piece of cake, you don't need to lose weight, yada yada yada....
Yeah, I'm morbidly obese... no matter what guidelines you look at, BMI, Ideal weight, bodyfat percentage, all show me to be obese, but there are still people telling me I don't need to lose weight.... Whatever.
Do you WANT to lose weight?
Sure you do.
When people tell you that you look fine, do you feel a little offended that they are making that up to make you feel good about yourself?
All females will look their best at 20-25 % total body fat.
Ever try to attack the eating side of the equation through hunger control?
Folks thing that hunger is something that is locked in stone. But the sensation of hunger starts out as signals from the stomach that it is not as full as it is used to being. That gets processed by the brain, with input from almost every part of the brain, so that for the obese this sensation drives them to eat. A lot.
But the brain is plastic. You can rewire it. You can attenuate the sensation of an empty stomach with the urge to eat.
Want to try?
First, eat small volume meals, as many as you want, to shrink the volume of the stomach. Count calories if you like, but that is not important.
You might be surprised at how you will feel. You might start losing weight.
After a couple weeks of this, start cutting down on the number of meals you eat.
I guarantee you WILL be surprised at how you feel and your change in hunger urges.
Ultimately, the goal is to skip breakfast, and eat your first meal of the day at noon or so. Not only will the fat-burning process be extended in the morning, but you will further get used to working and living your life on an empty stomach.
Your brain will re-wire. You will be a new person. You will gradually lose weight.
Look at the freebie pages in the kIindle version of Dr. John Hagan's "Breakfast: The least important meal of the day."
Take control of your life. Sky's the limit.
You go girl!
Thanks, I'm losing weight just fine and eating breakfast. My point was that no matter what you do, someone is going to disapprove. In the OP's case, someone disapproved of her weighing food, in my case I've had people disapprove of me losing weight in the first place ( not everyone by the way, just some people). And now I'm having someone disapprove because I prefer to eat breakfast :laugh:
Oh, and this wasn't a case of someone trying to make me feel good by saying I look great or something, it was someone seriously trying to convince me my mindset was all wrong to think about my weight as being important at all. One of those, "Its what's on the inside that counts" people. Well, it is more important to me to be of high moral character and to be a nice person than it is to be thin, but it is also important for me to be healthy and be alive to BE that nice, likeable person!
Anyway, I've tried intermittent fasting, and I gained weight on it, there is no one right way for every person... and for me, counting my calories and making sure to get enough protein is what works.
But it's NOT working.
Right?
You admit that you are still morbidly obese.
And there is one right way for everyone. To say weight loss is different for everyone is a complete cop-out.
Talk to the next "naturally" thin person you get to know and ask them about their eating habits and hunger and the like.
Your metabolism and genetics is EXACTLY like theirs.
They have learned to control hunger.
So can you.
This is not intermittent fasting, by the way.
The point is to get you down to eating two meals a day from three or more.
The key and first step in weight loss is to be honest with yourself.
Actually, it IS working. Yes I'm still obese. I have lost 56 pounds in less than 7 months, and am continuing to lose weight. Thanks for sticking your nose in, I didn't ask for advice. The OP did, but I just shared what happened with me that related to the OP's story.
If I started things your way, and lets say it did work (which is questionable, but for the sake of argument we'll say it would), the weight would not disappear overnight. It would still take time, the method I am using now takes time.
The fact that it takes time does not mean a method doesn't work.
I haven't seen any method that takes 150 pounds off in a week, not even starvation does that. So yes, counting calories and such IS working for me. If skipping breakfast works for you, fine, skip breakfast. Since I get up at 4:30 AM I prefer to eat by around 8:00-9:00.
Most diets, in fact almost all diets, fail after five years- the standard used for long-term success.
So the question is can you keep up your calorie-restriction approach for the rest of your life?
Do you want to?
The best weight loss is slow weight loss, and you are likely to keep it off longer.
No reason you can't incorporate Hagan's hunger-control approach with whatever diet routine you use now.
You want to re-wire your brain to be like that of a "naturally" thin person. When your stomach signals that it is empty, you file it away and get on with your life and eat when it fits your schedule.
When you reach that happy state, your stomach has likely shrunk down to a normal size, where satiety occurs earlier at every meal.
Slightly OT- that is where the successes from surgery occur. Through an intervention, the size of the stomach is physically lessened. Even though you might want to eat, you physically cannot stuff the food in there.
But you can do the same through meal portion control, and eventually the parsing down of meals to two a day with a morning "fast."
It takes longer to achieve but the results are long lasting.
Well, yes I can keep it up and wouldn't mind doing so for the rest of my life.
And, the stomach can "shrink" from eating smaller meals, regardless of whether you eat 2, 3, or 5 of those smaller meals each day... as long as you refrain from putting large amounts in the stomach it can shrink.
Again, thank you for you unsolicited advice. I'll file it where I usually file unsolicited advice... in the trash bin under my desk.0 -
Chronic overeating is also an eating disorder. I don't think weighing food necessarily is. I mean, if you were thin already, and were weighing food and not wanting to eat something because it had 3 calories more than what you planned... it would be an issue. But just weighing food to get a proper portion size? Nah. I would say that weighing is just one more way of measuring, and everyone measures when they are following a recipe, (or at least they should), and you are following a recipe for a healthy body.
Now, believe it or not, I've been encouraged by others to lighten up, go ahead and have a piece of cake, you don't need to lose weight, yada yada yada....
Yeah, I'm morbidly obese... no matter what guidelines you look at, BMI, Ideal weight, bodyfat percentage, all show me to be obese, but there are still people telling me I don't need to lose weight.... Whatever.
Do you WANT to lose weight?
Sure you do.
When people tell you that you look fine, do you feel a little offended that they are making that up to make you feel good about yourself?
All females will look their best at 20-25 % total body fat.
Ever try to attack the eating side of the equation through hunger control?
Folks thing that hunger is something that is locked in stone. But the sensation of hunger starts out as signals from the stomach that it is not as full as it is used to being. That gets processed by the brain, with input from almost every part of the brain, so that for the obese this sensation drives them to eat. A lot.
But the brain is plastic. You can rewire it. You can attenuate the sensation of an empty stomach with the urge to eat.
Want to try?
First, eat small volume meals, as many as you want, to shrink the volume of the stomach. Count calories if you like, but that is not important.
You might be surprised at how you will feel. You might start losing weight.
After a couple weeks of this, start cutting down on the number of meals you eat.
I guarantee you WILL be surprised at how you feel and your change in hunger urges.
Ultimately, the goal is to skip breakfast, and eat your first meal of the day at noon or so. Not only will the fat-burning process be extended in the morning, but you will further get used to working and living your life on an empty stomach.
Your brain will re-wire. You will be a new person. You will gradually lose weight.
Look at the freebie pages in the kIindle version of Dr. John Hagan's "Breakfast: The least important meal of the day."
Take control of your life. Sky's the limit.
You go girl!
Thanks, I'm losing weight just fine and eating breakfast. My point was that no matter what you do, someone is going to disapprove. In the OP's case, someone disapproved of her weighing food, in my case I've had people disapprove of me losing weight in the first place ( not everyone by the way, just some people). And now I'm having someone disapprove because I prefer to eat breakfast :laugh:
Oh, and this wasn't a case of someone trying to make me feel good by saying I look great or something, it was someone seriously trying to convince me my mindset was all wrong to think about my weight as being important at all. One of those, "Its what's on the inside that counts" people. Well, it is more important to me to be of high moral character and to be a nice person than it is to be thin, but it is also important for me to be healthy and be alive to BE that nice, likeable person!
Anyway, I've tried intermittent fasting, and I gained weight on it, there is no one right way for every person... and for me, counting my calories and making sure to get enough protein is what works.
But it's NOT working.
Right?
You admit that you are still morbidly obese.
And there is one right way for everyone. To say weight loss is different for everyone is a complete cop-out.
Talk to the next "naturally" thin person you get to know and ask them about their eating habits and hunger and the like.
Your metabolism and genetics is EXACTLY like theirs.
They have learned to control hunger.
So can you.
This is not intermittent fasting, by the way.
The point is to get you down to eating two meals a day from three or more.
The key and first step in weight loss is to be honest with yourself.
Actually, it IS working. Yes I'm still obese. I have lost 56 pounds in less than 7 months, and am continuing to lose weight. Thanks for sticking your nose in, I didn't ask for advice. The OP did, but I just shared what happened with me that related to the OP's story.
If I started things your way, and lets say it did work (which is questionable, but for the sake of argument we'll say it would), the weight would not disappear overnight. It would still take time, the method I am using now takes time.
The fact that it takes time does not mean a method doesn't work.
I haven't seen any method that takes 150 pounds off in a week, not even starvation does that. So yes, counting calories and such IS working for me. If skipping breakfast works for you, fine, skip breakfast. Since I get up at 4:30 AM I prefer to eat by around 8:00-9:00.
Most diets, in fact almost all diets, fail after five years- the standard used for long-term success.
So the question is can you keep up your calorie-restriction approach for the rest of your life?
Do you want to?
The best weight loss is slow weight loss, and you are likely to keep it off longer.
No reason you can't incorporate Hagan's hunger-control approach with whatever diet routine you use now.
You want to re-wire your brain to be like that of a "naturally" thin person. When your stomach signals that it is empty, you file it away and get on with your life and eat when it fits your schedule.
When you reach that happy state, your stomach has likely shrunk down to a normal size, where satiety occurs earlier at every meal.
Slightly OT- that is where the successes from surgery occur. Through an intervention, the size of the stomach is physically lessened. Even though you might want to eat, you physically cannot stuff the food in there.
But you can do the same through meal portion control, and eventually the parsing down of meals to two a day with a morning "fast."
It takes longer to achieve but the results are long lasting.
Can I just point out that she never asked what worked for you...and that she's asked you several times to STOP.
Are you being paid to advertise this?0 -
I think that weighing food in and of itself is not necessarily an eating disorder, but it certainly can develop into one when it gets out of control. If you spend all of your time thinking about weighing and tracking your food, using a scale to decide exactly how many grapes you can eat, freak out if you can't weigh or track, etc. then that's become an eating disorder. But weighing alone doesn't mean you have a disorder.0
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Counting calories and measuring out food is definitely not some "top sign" for an eating disorder. If you've ever met a girl or boy with a true eating disorder, you'd know all of the other fears and anxieties they have.
If you are starting to cry over looking in a mirror at your body, wanting to physically harm yourself, going days without eating at all, starting to purge by excessive exercise or by inducing puking, then maybe you should worry.
Weighing food and counting calories? Definitely not anorexia.0
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