A Bit of Kvetching
This summer I decided to enjoy myself in Italy and on the boat, so I started eating (and drinking) a few of the things that were not included on South Beach. I gained about 10 lbs. For the past month or so I have been trying to drop 5 of those 10 lbs, with no success. *sigh*
It's not like I am fat or anything. I just didn't think 145 lbs was my final weight. However, although I am still eating very much in the South Beach way, I am a bit tired of denying myself of certain treats. I wanted to bring the weight back down so I could feel I have a bit more of a cushion when I treat myself.
I suspect what I really need to do is work on the body image I have inside my brain. This is the trap I hate about diets.
In other news, I bought a lovely bouquet of flowers. And my new leather car coat (bought with parental birthday funds) is smokin'!
It's not like I am fat or anything. I just didn't think 145 lbs was my final weight. However, although I am still eating very much in the South Beach way, I am a bit tired of denying myself of certain treats. I wanted to bring the weight back down so I could feel I have a bit more of a cushion when I treat myself.
I suspect what I really need to do is work on the body image I have inside my brain. This is the trap I hate about diets.
In other news, I bought a lovely bouquet of flowers. And my new leather car coat (bought with parental birthday funds) is smokin'!
posted by allison | 5:22 PM
8 Comments:
Yay for flowers.
And yeah, I think my ten pounds and your ten pounds are in cahoots!
Me, too!
If I could just concentrate on building muscle, I could feel much better about not losing weight.
I have had it with denying myself potatoes. I ate completely unrestrained while my parents were here and it was fun. See, my friend Hillary eats a lot of fast food and ice cream, but exercises a lot and is in good shape, while I eat pretty well and don't exercise and am flabby, inflexible and full of aches. I think the lesson here is clear.
Lady, you are smokin'!
I've been thinking a lot about body image lately. I think in your case (and probably in Jenn's too) the extra 10 lbs. isn't really extra and figuring out how to reframe your thinking would be useful. In other cases, extra weight is about health; things like diabetes and heart disease.
I know what you mean about not wanting to deny yourself. I'm a foodie. I live to eat, rather than eating to live. When I deny myself something small I know that at some point that will come back to bite me in the butt (quite literally!) when I finally give in. Instead of one cookie, it will be the whole bag; instead of a couple of two-bite brownies, it will be 8 of them, with whipped cream and bananas.
*sigh*
"Everything in moderation, including moderation itself".
Damn right, and also allows you the odd treat and slip up.
I've managed to lose and keep off, a stone this year (err 14 lbs). I'd managed to lose another 4 lbs, but they fluctuate (so I'm between 148 and 154 lbs). Luckily, a company health check found I'm taller than I thought - 5'8", which then means my BMI is lower than I thought, and puts me fro just-overweight to top end of normal.
I know what you mean about body image. I feel better about my body image since I've lost the stone and started toning up from exercise. I'm healthier now, and I enjoy the running, so all around, it's better!
Pictures of you in the new coat? {flutters eyelashes).
Helen, I have seen photos of you, and if you are overweight I'll eat my shoes.
My personal feeling is that BMI is bupkiss.
Podgy - thanks [hug]. I agree with Allison, that body image has a lot to answer for. I know I don't *look* overweight, but according to height-weight graphs, I was. It's heavy bones, I swear ;-)
I've been working on both physical and mental body image, which is what Allison's talking about - and Allison, we've seen photos of you remember, and we think you're hot. Does that help with your mental body image? {hug)
Have I left a comment here before? If not, hi! Great stalking - thanks.
Having a loving husband does great things for body image, I find. Also being fit makes me (more often) ignore how I actually look. It's more about what I can do.
I could never go on a diet. Like Podgy, I love to eat way too much. Food. Good. I admire your willpower, and I know South Beach is more about changing your general way of eating that giving you strict rules, so that's all good. But a girl needs treats!
So, yes. Get some exercise, eat yummy things and get lots of compliments from Grant.
And let me echo what the others have said: you look beautiful. Having met you, I would not have thought that you needed to diet. At all.
~Nerdgirl
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