What's your approach to weight loss???
HealthyNFit4Life
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I've been looking at Fitspo on Instagram. It's really motivating, but I'm really struggling with what approach to health I want to take. Fitspo motivates me to train harder and eat as healthy as possible, but I've taken this approach over and over again and the binge always ends up winning. I can lose 40 pounds and end up gaining it back. The other approach I can take is to focus on recovery (while training of course). I want to treat the binge and not put a band-aid on it, as the goal of a healthy and fit body would be a band-aid in my opinion. Any other bingers have thoughts on this?! Non-bingers are welcome as well 
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By fitspo, I really mean the goal of "being healthy and fit" as opposed to have a goal of "recovery and a healthy relationship with food."0
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I think that once we mess about with our set point weight, and start dieting, we go against nature, really.
When I started dieting at 13, I was about 140Ibs at 5'11, and I have spent ever since then, battling to go against that and be thinner than my body is naturally meant to be. It all ends up seeming a bit pointless when our bodies would probably settle at a perfectly appropriate weight if we just left them alone, listened to our hunger/fullness signals and kept reasonably active. I have noticed that as soon as I try and eat uber healthy, or go below a certain weight, or exercise too much, I am constantly craving, constantly hungry and constantly end up binge eating my way back up to that start point weight again, or close to it. My boyfriend always says, you cannot fight nature, and are only punishing yourself when you continue to try and make yourself into something you are not.
My approach to weight loss should probably be to stop focussing on losing weight and to just focus on living and allow the rest to fall into place.
However, it has more often than not ended up being a constant grind of exercising, trying to eat 'clean', obsessing over every little change on the scale and aiming to be at the very bottom of the BMI range for my height or below it.
Fortunately, my head is screwed on enough to lead me to eating the things I need nutritionally, regardless, even if I have binged.0 -
I read a book by Geneen Roth (Why Weight) that is like a workbook to help you get in a good place regarding bingeing. It helps you to learn why you binge and what to do about it. Now that I know the "whys" I feel like I can take better steps to prevent it. Try meditating, journaling, going for a walk, drinking a glass of water, etc. Also, always eat at the table with no distractions. (This one is tough for me!) I know I will always struggle but at least now I know why and what to do. Now that I have a grasp on that I feel I can focus on being healthy by exercising and eating right. One thing that I think will be a help is to keep coming back here. Support from people going through the same thing as you is PRICELESS and helps to keep you accountable.
P.S. If you need a fun and motivating exercise program I recommend Zumba!0 -
Totally curious if anyone else has checked out this book and has any thoughts? I really need to get a handle on my binging. I've just lost my job due to budget cuts, and can totally see that this will be a stressful time coming up so
I am looking for good resources to be proactive.0
