Reply to Slim and eat what you want

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "Slim and eat what you want"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I run or cycle 4-5 days a week, yoga or light strength training the other days.  Typically get 10k+ steps daily. I don’t really take full rest days unless I’m sick or traveling. My body craves motion and I don’t feel good unless I’ve moved a lot.

I eat what I want, but for me that means an extremely light breakfast and lunch then a normal dinner.   So until 6pm I’ll eat maybe a piece of fruit or a green smoothie, toast with butter and/or a scrambled egg.  I just don’t get hungry or think about food much until dinner time. I eat big meals for dinner and indulge in desserts when I feel like it.[/quote]

"I just don't get hungry or think about food much until dinner time."

THIS is the difference between someone who can manage their weight naturally and those of us who can't. I wake up hungry. I can eat a large breakfast and be hungry 2 hours later. Not just "my mouth wants food, I love sweets" but my stomach is empty again hungry. Maybe it's not empty, but that's the message my body and brain are sending me. I get cranky and sometimes shaky when I haven't eaten in 5 hours. I can't fathom people who just don't feel like eating breakfast or just eat a yogurt cup and are fine until lunch. Im not obese, but I work hard to stay at a size 8 and it can creep up to 10 if I eat intuitively. But I hate thinking about food as often as I do. Im jealous of those people who just don't get hungry much! [/quote]

This sounds insane and people don’t believe me, but I have been on both sides of this.  I struggled with my weight my childhood, weighed in the 180s throughout college despite focusing intensely on trying to lose weight.  I calorie counted and worked out obsessively but couldn’t get my weight down.  I thought about food constantly and it was a massive struggle to diet.

Then I got a severe case of mononucleosis the summer after college. I was sick for almost a month and lost some initial weight because my throat was too sore to eat much.  I eventually recovered but my appetite just never came back.  It’s as if the virus rewired something in my brain, my obsessive thoughts about food just disappeared forever.  By the end of that year I had lost over 40lbs without any effort.

That was 15 years ago and I’ve been slim ever since, usually around 125lbs or so.  I don’t watch my diet in any way.  But I’m like the PP up thread now, I just don’t think about food or get hungry very often.  But I have experienced what the other poster describes too, I know what it’s like to think about food constantly and feel like it takes massive effort not to eat.  It’s just night and day.  It absolutely has to do with brain chemistry or body chemistry or something - I don’t know the scientific explanation - but it’s not an issue of personal will power.  Having experienced both extremes of this, I truly think body size is mostly out of anyones control.  Of course people can make choices that affect it but I think most people are probably predisposed to be a particular size and aren’t likely to change that.[/quote]

I believe you and I find that fascinating! I had mono too, but didn't have the same effect on me :)

I'm grateful you can share this perspective.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics