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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.192244.17533@spdcc.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:22:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec30.192244.17533
- References: <1992Dec18.032726.3309@omen.UUCP> <17914@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec30.102922.11762@omen.UUCP>
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- In article <1992Dec30.102922.11762@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >I'm including my raw BMI data below, such as I have. [...]
-
- This kind of record keeping is beyond my imagination and certainly my
- capabilities.
-
- I was always considered heavy in grammar school and high school; exactly
- how much, I don't really remember--not grossly obese, but heavy. Even as
- a kid I always had to go to the "husky" section of the kids' clothing
- department.
-
- I have found that over the years I have a history both of repeated dieting
- and of regaining the weight plus some more, but I am not so ready to point
- to the dieting _per se_ as the source of this; on top of this is a sedentary
- lifestyle (and profession), plus I'm older now, and it's even easier to gain
- weight, PLUS as I look back on my attempts at dieting, I find that it was
- much too easy to overdo it once I stopped my "diet"--freed from these self-
- imposed restraints, it's too easy to plunge face-first into old bad habits and
- regain the weight. Additionally, I find that as I get heavier, I get even
- more sedentary. It's very easy to fall into a vicious cycle, and it's easy for
- me to fail to to get a "handle" on my weight regain until it's too late. Will
- power (such as it is), or the determination to do something, is a very funny
- phenomenon, at least for me. I either have it or I don't. When I don't,
- I find myself completely powerless, and when I do, the whole process is easy.
- And I can't understand what it's like to be on the other side at any point
- in time. These days (since April), I've having a great, easy time losing
- weight slowly. I keep telling myself it's not a diet, and it's just the way
- I have to eat for the rest of my life. I can accomodate holidays; I just
- remember that it's not the holiday eating which contributes to obesity as
- much as it's the non-holiday eating the rest of the time.
-
- I never had much trouble losing weight; the maintenance was always the
- problem. But there was also a really keen sense of either being on a
- "diet" or not, and I'm hoping that if I don't focus on this, and keep
- to a low-fat diet in general, I won't make the same mistakes this time.
- We'll see.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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