right, and the reason matters. In her case, she has some sort of bent pin in her head that makes her equate food with security, I think. I am not saying this is right, even though she's my mother and I love her dearly. Clearly, it impairs her health. But the food she eats is healthy. She just eats too much of it. Cutting back on calories is really hard for her, and because she hasn't addressed the underlying problem it never takes for very long. That and swimming, while it's exercise, isn't really aerobic, and she also has weird ideas about what nice Canadian women should and should not do (like walk to the store or god forbid go jogging). Again, not simple, and again, not the case for everyone.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/28/2012 5:15 PM, Dana wrote: > > I think you pretty much have to > > exercise, and perhaps strenuously, to lose significant weight and keep it > > off. > > I thought this was a given. > > > but you can't eat all fruit all of > > the time and stay healthy. > > and this > > > Before that, when I asked doctors, I got > > different advice. Don't worry about carbs - just avoid fat. Cut back on > > carbs. Eat nothing but protein, and don't worry too much about the fat. > > Count calories. Don't count calories, you'll make yourself crazy -- just > > eat right. > > Feh. "Fad" diets. It's a simple equation. calories_in - calories_out > = what is left over to be stored. This doesn't cover what one should > eat. If you eat shit, that's what your body is going to turn into. You > might die young, but at least you will die thin. > > > My mother was a yo-yo dieter and crash programs > > certainly didn't work for her, and she did religiously swim three or four > > times a week for years. > > Well, that's the problem. "Diets" don't work. You have to make a > lifestyle change and stick with it. It is a permanent thing. Most > overweight people just can't/won't commit to that kind of change, for > whatever reason. > > > People gain weight for different reasons. The ones who gain because they > > eat too much eat too much for different reasons. There are people who > have > > thyroid problems and people who just don't exercise. One size does not > fit > > all, is what I am saying. > > He covered that in his opening sentence. He was excluding people with > various medical conditions and aiming more for those who fail to commit. > At least, that's what I got from it. Kind of a "I don't feel sorry > for those who don't try to help themselves." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345997 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
