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

[spirited-lizard.livejournal.com]

Here, it has always been about meat, and I don't even like it that much. :-\ I'm not a vegetarian, but I also don't need meat every day, and the family just doesn't get it. Sadly.

It's a bit hard to explain how they tick, but they're just so old-school. My father always explains that they have always cooked like that because back then, they needed the calories for strength, as they were working on fields. I get that, but we're not doing that anymore, so we should change that in our cooking, too, I think.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I get that, but we're not doing that anymore, so we should change that in our cooking, too, I think.

Absolutely.