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- From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.001135.19087@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Organization: Western Washington University
- References: <17914@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec30.102922.11762@omen.UUCP> <1992Dec30.120456.16478@henson.cc.wwu.edu> <1992Dec30.200240.14796@omen.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:11:35 GMT
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- caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >>>The 403 to 343 loss was a combination of Pearson&Shaw, Cambridge
- >>>Diet, and 800 calories worth of Weight Watchers' frozen dinners,
- >>>which resulted in hair loss, heart palpitations, funny looking
- >>>fingernails, severe fatigue, stomach upsets, and piano legs.
- >> Piano legs? What is that?
- >I forget the medical term, but it refers to swelling of the feet and
- >lower legs that builds up during the day and tends to go away during
- >sleep when the fluid doesn't have to go uphill.
-
- Strange, why would that happen? Ditto for hair loss.
- My first thought for "piano legs" was that you lost muscle
- before you lost fat, or that the fat came from your legs. My
- own limited experience tends to this. I used to be a skinny runt
- up until college, during which I got much heavier, and now consider
- myself slightly overweight.
-
- The few times I've tried to diet, the first thing I've noticed is
- that my neck, legs, and arms seem to get thinner w no effect on my
- sides or gut. This activates my primal "Jesus, I'm a runt again!"
- horror, and the whole thing gets called off.
-
- I've found also, that when I do decide to change my eating habits,
- it is all fine idea for a few days or so, and then an "auto pilot"
- starts, where I start thinking about food* all the time. A few weeks
- into it is the record. Too bad there is no (legal) external way to stop
- hunger (that I know of), because I don't feel I have the willpower to
- continiously feel those urges and defy them.
-
-
- *(Not just thoughts of food, but rich meaty lardy food, and myself
- eating lots of it, and how satisfying it is to do so.) %^)
-
- Jim Del Vecchio
-