I Cannot Believe I Fucking Picked Up The Phone

[redbrunja]

So my mom called to read me part of an article she was reading regarding weight loss which said, in short, a billion years of evolution is working against you when you try to lose weight and calorie counting/dieting tends to not work in the long term. Which is all stuff I know. However, what the fuck else am I supposed to do? Because when I don't count calories, I a.) gain weight and b.) make up 'deals' regarding what I can eat and when in a (vain) effort to have control over my weight, so telling me to stop counting calories is like telling me to take off a parachute and jump off a building - oh, don't worry, you'll figure out how to fly on the way down.

And I know my mom is telling me this because she's worried about me starving myself but frankly, my (unhealthy, admittedly) response to that article was, 'well, given that I never learned how to eat like a normal person, I guess I am just going to have to accept that I will be keeping track of every fucking bite of food I eat for the rest of my entire life.'

Comments

[meitah.livejournal.com]

Keeping track of what you eat is hard, if only because you have to eat so often. (Stupid body, I fed you yesterday.)

But the upside is that keeping track forces you to be better about what you eat.

Not that I can really talk. Both of my parents are type 2 diabetics and my freshman 15 turned into 30 sometime during finals.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't find tracking my calories too onerous - what drives me crazy is the thought that I will be doing so every day for the rest of my life.

[meitah.livejournal.com]

It could be so much worse. My ima has to give herself an injection of insulin everyday, and she does not like needles.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sucks epically.