Unfair
Vodka is clear. Why the fuck does it have calories? That's wrong on so many levels.
You know the thing I hate most about this program? It seems intent on stripping you of your dignity. I can handle the personal trainer and the nutrionist - that's why I signed up, to have my health in the hands of professionals. What I can't handle is the requirement that you attend a group therapy session each week, and twice-monthly sessions with a counselor.
I don't binge, I don't purge. I don't starve myself and I know when I am eating too much. My problem is simple: three years ago, I went through a series of injuries that left me unable to work out. I shrugged and used the time for writing instead, but continued to eat as if I was training for a marathon.
So basically, my problem is that I like food. I would love to see the shrink who can talk me out of that.
You know the thing I hate most about this program? It seems intent on stripping you of your dignity. I can handle the personal trainer and the nutrionist - that's why I signed up, to have my health in the hands of professionals. What I can't handle is the requirement that you attend a group therapy session each week, and twice-monthly sessions with a counselor.
I don't binge, I don't purge. I don't starve myself and I know when I am eating too much. My problem is simple: three years ago, I went through a series of injuries that left me unable to work out. I shrugged and used the time for writing instead, but continued to eat as if I was training for a marathon.
So basically, my problem is that I like food. I would love to see the shrink who can talk me out of that.
posted by Brooke at 10:34 AM
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I don't think your problem is that you like food. I think your problem is that you are not getting enough exercise and possibly need to incorporate some weightlifting to build muscle and increase your metabolism even a little.
Celeste
I meant to say load-bearing exercise as opposed to cardio. I have never felt like cardio alone can help me lose weight. I feel like it just makes me hungrier and so a caloric restriction is harder.
One of these days I will learn to preview before I post. ;o)
That shrink would make a billion.
Now, for some reason, I have the worst craving for mac and cheese.
your comrade in the joys of nom,
jude
Jude, tell me you are going to SF! I will be there.
Celeste, I'm working with a personal trainer, a nutrionist, and a physician. I think they've got me on a good mix of cardio and weight training, and actually after a good cardio workout I feel less hungry rather than more hundry. But thanks.
If it's any comfort, I do the eat-1400-calories, work-out-like-a-demon thing myself, with a trainer, and I still tip the scale at 190.
True, it's a 190 that benches 120 and can run an 8-minute mile, but I'm a size 14. Which I hate. Nothing jiggles, I have no cellulite (amazing), my boobs are perky. And I am still squat and stocky and built like a fucking brick wall. So I feel your pain and your desire to kiss a bus.
All this weight hit me due to a combination of divorce (beer binges!), Effexor, and working 12-hour days. Now that things are better (no more beer binges! Trainer! Salad! Tuna! Dammit!), I'm neither losing weight nor getting smaller; I'm just replacing beer gut with biceps.
I guess I'll have to get used to looking like Colossus (the "X-Men" version, not the one in Rome). The upside is that I can beat up anybody who snarks me about it.
All the greatest authors have suffered for their art, right? Think of the fabulosity that is going to SPRING from your pen! Or keyboard.
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