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.'

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

There are diets that are not based around counting calories. It can come into play but isn't the basis for the way of eating. Maybe that's what she is trying to say? I don't know? If what you're doing is working for you then I say just ignore her. If it's not, then maybe she wasn't exactly saying "don't diet at all" (unless she was.)

What my mom was ACTUALLY saying was, 'I'm concerned you're not eating enough nutrient-dense food and are starving yourself.' What I HEARD was, 'science says you're fucked.'

The reason I personally found it "easier" to do is because you can easily alter the GI of a food by pairing it with different types of foods, or even by cooking it differently.

That is really interesting. And I'm always interested in ways to make my body run more like a perfect machine.

Scientists have no idea why, but foods paired with acid (say lemon juice for example) tend to have a lower GI than the same food without it. No clue what causes it. It's just a mystery of science. So if you sprinkle some lemon over your dinner, the whole meal will have (at least a slightly) lower GI value. Weird!

That is weird. And remember, this is LJ, so there's no such this as TMI (okay, there is, but you haven't hit that line).