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

[greynonentity.livejournal.com]

To be honest, keeping track of what you eat is hard no matter if you're trying to lose/gain/maintain weight. I don't really know a whole lot about trying to lose weight, and I've never really gone on a diet, but I keep track of what I eat and count sugar/carbohydrates because of my diabetes. But I think the thing with diets (for what the worth of an opinion of someone who has never really been on one - or at least on a diet which purports to lose weight) is that they're hard for anyone to maintain and that there are many setbacks and also that there is no one way to diet that is one hundred percent successful.

If... I would hazard a guess, I would think that maybe it is similar to taking care of diabetes. You have to have so much insulin with what you eat to balance your glucose, and too much or too little will devastate you. The same thing happens if you have too much/too little food with your insulin. And it's a matter of finding your balance and what foods are best for what you want to do.

Ummm, but that is only an uneducated analogy from someone who doesn't really know anything about diets.

...And... um, if you really want to know... I keep track of every fucking bite of food I eat and have been since I was old enough to keep track of my diabetes by myself and sometimes I still mess the fuck up. So it's not like, if you decide to keep track of everything, that you'd be alone or freakish in doing so. I think... that once you get in the habit of doing something, that perhaps it is easier? But I don't want to make assumptions about diets or your dieting or your feelings either.

Apologies for maybe seeming like I'm talking about myself. I am not trying to.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

But I think the thing with diets (for what the worth of an opinion of someone who has never really been on one - or at least on a diet which purports to lose weight) is that they're hard for anyone to maintain and that there are many setbacks and also that there is no one way to diet that is one hundred percent successful.

Very true. The basics is eat really well (depending on the specifics of what your body needs) and exercise. In practice, that can be a bitch to do consistently.

I keep track of every fucking bite of food I eat and have been since I was old enough to keep track of my diabetes by myself and sometimes I still mess the fuck up. So it's not like, if you decide to keep track of everything, that you'd be alone or freakish in doing so. I think... that once you get in the habit of doing something, that perhaps it is easier? But I don't want to make assumptions about diets or your dieting or your feelings either.


At this point, I've tracked my food for long enough that in the regular course of things it's not that big of a deal... it can just get really frustrating when I'm trying very hard to lose weigh and it's just not happening, and I reputable sources telling me that what I'm doing is wrong, without actually giving me a different path to follow.