Nothing tastes as good as fit feels....
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mustloseweight2015 wrote: »LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Good grief, I hate that saying. A lot of things taste better than skinny feels (just ask Jennifer Lawrence). For instance...cake, cookies, brownies, ice cream, pasta, fried chicken, cheese, french fries, etc. What's great is that you can be "skinny" (if that's what you want to be; I'd rather be strong, hot, and fit) and still eat all of those things. I certainly still eat those things and still managed to drop nearly 30 lbs. That quote is just pushing the completely false notion that delicious, high-calorie foods are the enemy and they're not. We can't blame food here. The food itself isn't the reason we get fat - it's the amount of it that we ate; it's our lack of willpower and our skewed idea of what a portion actually is.
I also hate the saying, "Eat to live. Don't live to eat." That's just stupid. We ALL eat to live, but we can enjoy food as well without being obese. Plenty of people manage to do this. It's when you completely deny yourself foods you love that you set yourself up for failure. Trust me, that Oreo is not the enemy - and it's effing delicious. Just don't eat the whole pack.
IIFYM. No food is off limits.LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »False dilemma.
Okay so this post has generated some passionate responses like the ones above. My intention was not to blame the food or promote total denial or anything like that. I'm at a place on my journey where I am unable to stick with moderation. I thought this quote will help me stay motivated to avoid foods until I'm at a place where I can actually practice moderation. I was feeling motivated and excited so I shared it. Clearly, it was a bad idea because there seem to be too many people opposed to this quote.....
I wish people would understand not everyone is at the point where they can successfully practice moderation. Sometimes it may help to quit something cold turkey for a while....Just because you can practice moderation successfully, it doesn't mean everyone else can.
For me, I "learned" moderation by not having a lot of my trigger foods around the house. But, I'll buy a single serving of something while I'm out; we'll go to gelato with friends, and I'll get 3oz, or I get one cookie from the bakery instead of a bag from the grocery aisle. It's more expensive (I also hate spending money), but it forced me to adapt to what a serving was and how I could consider that "enough" for me. Now, I have 3 containers of ice cream in the freezer, and I measure out one serving and have no problem stopping there (even though it's about a third of what I used to eat).0 -
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I am someone who can't eat certain foods in moderation, so I don't eat them at all (any type of dessert food, for instance). I feel like dessert foods are like an old boyfriend -- I loved them once but now that we've broken up, I don't ever want to go back.
My philosophy is to listen to my body when I eat. If I find myself wanting seconds even though I know I'm full, I don't eat that food any more. Foods that trigger me to want to eat more than I need are more trouble than they are worth, no matter how tasty they seem.
If you are struggling with moderation, it could be the food, not your willpower. Eliminating triggers from your diet may help.0 -
I dunno, my mom's homemade chocolate cake with buttercream frosting is so good I could eat it all the time. Even if they had to grease down the door frame to get me out of the room I'd still be pretty happy.0
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mustloseweight2015 wrote: »LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Good grief, I hate that saying. A lot of things taste better than skinny feels (just ask Jennifer Lawrence). For instance...cake, cookies, brownies, ice cream, pasta, fried chicken, cheese, french fries, etc. What's great is that you can be "skinny" (if that's what you want to be; I'd rather be strong, hot, and fit) and still eat all of those things. I certainly still eat those things and still managed to drop nearly 30 lbs. That quote is just pushing the completely false notion that delicious, high-calorie foods are the enemy and they're not. We can't blame food here. The food itself isn't the reason we get fat - it's the amount of it that we ate; it's our lack of willpower and our skewed idea of what a portion actually is.
I also hate the saying, "Eat to live. Don't live to eat." That's just stupid. We ALL eat to live, but we can enjoy food as well without being obese. Plenty of people manage to do this. It's when you completely deny yourself foods you love that you set yourself up for failure. Trust me, that Oreo is not the enemy - and it's effing delicious. Just don't eat the whole pack.
IIFYM. No food is off limits.LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »False dilemma.
Okay so this post has generated some passionate responses like the ones above. My intention was not to blame the food or promote total denial or anything like that. I'm at a place on my journey where I am unable to stick with moderation. I thought this quote will help me stay motivated to avoid foods until I'm at a place where I can actually practice moderation. I was feeling motivated and excited so I shared it. Clearly, it was a bad idea because there seem to be too many people opposed to this quote.....
I wish people would understand not everyone is at the point where they can successfully practice moderation. Sometimes it may help to quit something cold turkey for a while....Just because you can practice moderation successfully, it doesn't mean everyone else can.
For me, I "learned" moderation by not having a lot of my trigger foods around the house. But, I'll buy a single serving of something while I'm out; we'll go to gelato with friends, and I'll get 3oz, or I get one cookie from the bakery instead of a bag from the grocery aisle. It's more expensive (I also hate spending money), but it forced me to adapt to what a serving was and how I could consider that "enough" for me. Now, I have 3 containers of ice cream in the freezer, and I measure out one serving and have no problem stopping there (even though it's about a third of what I used to eat).
Agreed. It took me a lonnnggggg time to get here, but I now celebrate the fact that I can have 1 or even 2 tubs of ice cream in the freezer and actually forget that I have them. And when I remember, I always scoop out the serving size only.
Like I said, it took me a long time to get to this place. There was a time where I simply did not buy ice cream because I would eat all at once or simply eat too much. Don't get down about that OP. Only you know what you can handle right now, and it's okay if you have to moderate by just not buying it at all at this point. Eventually, the habits you're building will be strong enough that you can trust yourself around those types of high calorie foods.0 -
WillLift4Tats wrote: »mustloseweight2015 wrote: »LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Good grief, I hate that saying. A lot of things taste better than skinny feels (just ask Jennifer Lawrence). For instance...cake, cookies, brownies, ice cream, pasta, fried chicken, cheese, french fries, etc. What's great is that you can be "skinny" (if that's what you want to be; I'd rather be strong, hot, and fit) and still eat all of those things. I certainly still eat those things and still managed to drop nearly 30 lbs. That quote is just pushing the completely false notion that delicious, high-calorie foods are the enemy and they're not. We can't blame food here. The food itself isn't the reason we get fat - it's the amount of it that we ate; it's our lack of willpower and our skewed idea of what a portion actually is.
I also hate the saying, "Eat to live. Don't live to eat." That's just stupid. We ALL eat to live, but we can enjoy food as well without being obese. Plenty of people manage to do this. It's when you completely deny yourself foods you love that you set yourself up for failure. Trust me, that Oreo is not the enemy - and it's effing delicious. Just don't eat the whole pack.
IIFYM. No food is off limits.LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »False dilemma.
Okay so this post has generated some passionate responses like the ones above. My intention was not to blame the food or promote total denial or anything like that. I'm at a place on my journey where I am unable to stick with moderation. I thought this quote will help me stay motivated to avoid foods until I'm at a place where I can actually practice moderation. I was feeling motivated and excited so I shared it. Clearly, it was a bad idea because there seem to be too many people opposed to this quote.....
I wish people would understand not everyone is at the point where they can successfully practice moderation. Sometimes it may help to quit something cold turkey for a while....Just because you can practice moderation successfully, it doesn't mean everyone else can.
For me, I "learned" moderation by not having a lot of my trigger foods around the house. But, I'll buy a single serving of something while I'm out; we'll go to gelato with friends, and I'll get 3oz, or I get one cookie from the bakery instead of a bag from the grocery aisle. It's more expensive (I also hate spending money), but it forced me to adapt to what a serving was and how I could consider that "enough" for me. Now, I have 3 containers of ice cream in the freezer, and I measure out one serving and have no problem stopping there (even though it's about a third of what I used to eat).
Agreed. It took me a lonnnggggg time to get here, but I now celebrate the fact that I can have 1 or even 2 tubs of ice cream in the freezer and actually forget that I have them. And when I remember, I always scoop out the serving size only.
Like I said, it took me a long time to get to this place. There was a time where I simply did not buy ice cream because I would eat all at once or simply eat too much. Don't get down about that OP. Only you know what you can handle right now, and it's okay if you have to moderate by just not buying it at all at this point. Eventually, the habits you're building will be strong enough that you can trust yourself around those types of high calorie foods.
Thanks!! I hope I can get to that place some day. For now, I just have to avoid those foods in order to stay on track.0 -
WillLift4Tats wrote: »mustloseweight2015 wrote: »LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Good grief, I hate that saying. A lot of things taste better than skinny feels (just ask Jennifer Lawrence). For instance...cake, cookies, brownies, ice cream, pasta, fried chicken, cheese, french fries, etc. What's great is that you can be "skinny" (if that's what you want to be; I'd rather be strong, hot, and fit) and still eat all of those things. I certainly still eat those things and still managed to drop nearly 30 lbs. That quote is just pushing the completely false notion that delicious, high-calorie foods are the enemy and they're not. We can't blame food here. The food itself isn't the reason we get fat - it's the amount of it that we ate; it's our lack of willpower and our skewed idea of what a portion actually is.
I also hate the saying, "Eat to live. Don't live to eat." That's just stupid. We ALL eat to live, but we can enjoy food as well without being obese. Plenty of people manage to do this. It's when you completely deny yourself foods you love that you set yourself up for failure. Trust me, that Oreo is not the enemy - and it's effing delicious. Just don't eat the whole pack.
IIFYM. No food is off limits.LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »False dilemma.
Okay so this post has generated some passionate responses like the ones above. My intention was not to blame the food or promote total denial or anything like that. I'm at a place on my journey where I am unable to stick with moderation. I thought this quote will help me stay motivated to avoid foods until I'm at a place where I can actually practice moderation. I was feeling motivated and excited so I shared it. Clearly, it was a bad idea because there seem to be too many people opposed to this quote.....
I wish people would understand not everyone is at the point where they can successfully practice moderation. Sometimes it may help to quit something cold turkey for a while....Just because you can practice moderation successfully, it doesn't mean everyone else can.
For me, I "learned" moderation by not having a lot of my trigger foods around the house. But, I'll buy a single serving of something while I'm out; we'll go to gelato with friends, and I'll get 3oz, or I get one cookie from the bakery instead of a bag from the grocery aisle. It's more expensive (I also hate spending money), but it forced me to adapt to what a serving was and how I could consider that "enough" for me. Now, I have 3 containers of ice cream in the freezer, and I measure out one serving and have no problem stopping there (even though it's about a third of what I used to eat).
Agreed. It took me a lonnnggggg time to get here, but I now celebrate the fact that I can have 1 or even 2 tubs of ice cream in the freezer and actually forget that I have them. And when I remember, I always scoop out the serving size only.
Like I said, it took me a long time to get to this place. There was a time where I simply did not buy ice cream because I would eat all at once or simply eat too much. Don't get down about that OP. Only you know what you can handle right now, and it's okay if you have to moderate by just not buying it at all at this point. Eventually, the habits you're building will be strong enough that you can trust yourself around those types of high calorie foods.
Ha, I now have the problem that I come home and my boyfriend tells me he's bought more ice cream. I get huffy because too much ice cream means less space in the freezer. Nope, he ate all of a container and replaced it, but then I'm sad that I didn't have any from the previous one. This is only a true concern when they start phasing out limited time things. If he eats all my pumpkin again, we're going to have words!0 -
I hate that quote so much. It is used a lot in the pro ana/ED world to remind themselves not to eat.0
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singingflutelady wrote: »I hate that quote so much. It is used a lot in the pro ana/ED world to remind themselves not to eat.
If you hate it then just ignore it. No one is imposing it on you!
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Ha, I now have the problem that I come home and my boyfriend tells me he's bought more ice cream. I get huffy because too much ice cream means less space in the freezer. Nope, he ate all of a container and replaced it, but then I'm sad that I didn't have any from the previous one. This is only a true concern when they start phasing out limited time things. If he eats all my pumpkin again, we're going to have words!
You are totally not alone in that!! Last weekend we had a Dominos, and because we'd spent over £25 we got a free tub of B&J Phish Food (THE best). I scooped out my bit, handed it to my husband who would have finished the rest off if my face handed looked so crest fallen! The idea of only having one serving out of it made me sad lol. Luckily for him (ha) he made the right decision and we finished it off the next night.
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mustloseweight2015 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »I hate that quote so much. It is used a lot in the pro ana/ED world to remind themselves not to eat.
If you hate it then just ignore it. No one is imposing it on you!
Alternatively if you hate it, speak up in this thread as to why you hate it, so that people can learn something valuable from it, which is exactly what happened here.
Nobody is judging or attacking you for posting it. They are attacking the quote itself for very valid reasons.
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respectsauce wrote: »The irony if that quote was found in a fortune cookie
Does anyone play that game
Nothing tastes as good as fit feels (in bed)?0 -
burritos are amazing.0
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mustloseweight2015 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »I hate that quote so much. It is used a lot in the pro ana/ED world to remind themselves not to eat.
If you hate it then just ignore it. No one is imposing it on you!
Alternatively if you hate it, speak up in this thread as to why you hate it, so that people can learn something valuable from it, which is exactly what happened here.
Nobody is judging or attacking you for posting it. They are attacking the quote itself for very valid reasons.
Yes, I am not judging just pointing out how this quote can be used to promote eating disorders (and I know this from experience since I am a recovered/recovering Anorexic). When I was really sick and in the hospital we all said this all the time. I know you said you have issues with moderation but so do I. Though I find that if I restrict all "junk" food or whatever that it is 100% certain that I will binge.
Someone wrote this quote on the white board at my gym last year (as well as the equally/if not more ED quote "a moment on the lips, forever on the hips"). On the surface thee quotes may be motivational but they are also very dangerous if it brings you into a very restrictive mindset.
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BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »How about "Being fit is great. Food is pretty yummy too, but don't eat too much."
This is my approach. Being fit and eating delicious things aren't mutually exclusive.
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Do you think we can get 73 more responses that say you can eat treats and lose weight? Like, has the OP said enough times that they are aware of this.
Still, OP: Don't be an idiot!!! You can eat junk and lose weight! Duuuuuuh!0 -
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I hope this is true. Deep fried oreos are BOMB.redheaddee wrote: »
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mustloseweight2015 wrote: »Read this quote somewhere. Haven't felt thin in sometime, but I remember how it great felt when I was thinner and more fit!! Trying to stay motivated to give up (reduce) tasty treats to eventually feel thin!!!
On that note, Happy Wednesday everyone.....stay on track!!!
Sad. OP posts an encouraging, upbeat message to us and s/he is buried in opposition and negativity. Typical of these halls.
A Happy Hump Day to you OP!!0 -
Kate Moss quotes: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"
This is who said that and I agree with everyone here... You can eat anything you want in moderation. 0 -
Wow...the wonders of the world are suddenly revealed to me...btw, this donut that I'm eating right now is pretty delicious.0
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I love this! I used to love to feel full and now I love feeling a little hungry and in shape.0
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Thank you for the post -- I like the quote, and think it's good to remember when you're wanting to eat the whole thing! I also enjoyed reading the disagree-ers (yeah, that's not a word!) and the smarty pants replies too. Have an awesome day!0
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111YoYo111 wrote: »mustloseweight2015 wrote: »Read this quote somewhere. Haven't felt thin in sometime, but I remember how it great felt when I was thinner and more fit!! Trying to stay motivated to give up (reduce) tasty treats to eventually feel thin!!!
On that note, Happy Wednesday everyone.....stay on track!!!
Sad. OP posts an encouraging, upbeat message to us and s/he is buried in opposition and negativity. Typical of these halls.
A Happy Hump Day to you OP!!
Do you think anyone attacked the OP or was negative to her personally, or do you think people were disagreeing with the message?0 -
I like to eat the foods and lift the weights.... Oh noes.-1
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Not to be a demotivator, but I love to eat. I love the feeling of being full. I love the feeling of eating delicious food. Those foods tend to be things very unhealthy for me. I hate working out, I hate salads, I hate most foods that are "good" for you. But I eat right and exercise because I know the health risks. I do the responsible thing. But man, what I wouldn't give to down a six pack and eat a large meat lovers pizza. Oh man...that would feel great.0
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111YoYo111 wrote: »mustloseweight2015 wrote: »Read this quote somewhere. Haven't felt thin in sometime, but I remember how it great felt when I was thinner and more fit!! Trying to stay motivated to give up (reduce) tasty treats to eventually feel thin!!!
On that note, Happy Wednesday everyone.....stay on track!!!
Sad. OP posts an encouraging, upbeat message to us and s/he is buried in opposition and negativity. Typical of these halls.
A Happy Hump Day to you OP!!
Do you think anyone attacked the OP or was negative to her personally, or do you think people were disagreeing with the message?
exactly.. it is not personal at all. I don't want her to feel bad about it, just to be careful. I will go back to "feeling" fit (is fit really a feeling?) and eating a balanced diet.0 -
111YoYo111 wrote: »mustloseweight2015 wrote: »Read this quote somewhere. Haven't felt thin in sometime, but I remember how it great felt when I was thinner and more fit!! Trying to stay motivated to give up (reduce) tasty treats to eventually feel thin!!!
On that note, Happy Wednesday everyone.....stay on track!!!
Sad. OP posts an encouraging, upbeat message to us and s/he is buried in opposition and negativity. Typical of these halls.
A Happy Hump Day to you OP!!
Saying you can eat delicious food and still lose weight is not negativity. In fact I think the phrase "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" is more negative and harmful than encouraging people to realize that you don't have to starve yourself to be successful (which is a really common misconception).0 -
<curmudgeon>
I'm not a fan of motivational sayings. Most are trite, many contradict each other, and some are just plain wrong.
"No one has ever regretted a workout." Really? I have.
"Do or do not. There is no try." Oh please. I prefer the Homer Simpson variant: "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try."
"Pain is just weakness leaving the body." Or it could be injury.
"Do not reward yourself with food. You are not a dog." Yeah, because people haven't rewarded other people with food - including their beloved mates and children - for longer than recorded history. When my manager brings in doughnuts, is he saying that we're dogs?
But the worst one, to my mind, is the "Nothing tastes better than __ feels," especially in the "skinny" variant. It's a blatant lie.
I'm pretty fit, and though I'm not skinny I'm the leanest I've been in my adult life. And I concur with those who say that there are many things that taste better than "fit" feels. And part of being fit is that I get to eat lots of things that taste great. (Like the 9% abv imperial IPA I had last night, O'so Lupulin Maximus.)
To mind, those who use this dictum as a motivational saying are setting themselves up for failure, as they eventually discover that it just isn't true. It posits an unhealthy and false dichotomy between health and pleasure, and contributes to the "food as the enemy" mindset. That's why this is a harmful idea.
</curmudgeon>
Disclaimer for hurt feelings: If this saying helped/helps you, more power to you.
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