Shocking
So, ya'll pretty much know I achieved successful weight loss, and have kept it off for 2+ years, with nutritional cleansing. I'm one of thousands; my story is not unique.
I don't live in a bubble, and I eat "normal" food too, it's just not my foundation anymore. I've learned SO much in the past 26 months about the way our bodies respond to the environment, stress, lack of sleep, and chemicals in and on our foods.
Well, today at a networking breakfast I looked around the table at the S.A.D. eating people, and I have to say I was disappointed.
There was the chiropractor, with his white flour pancakes, piling on butter (probably margarine
) and syrup. The semi-healthy eggs were smothered with cheese. To my right was a lady who is considerably past her ideal weight, and she had the big floppy pancake thing that oozed over the edges of her plate, with powdered sugar, butter (maybe?) and preserves. Hmm. And on around the table I looked, and yeah, it was SAD. (Standard American Diet)
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, IMO. I'm thinkin', you want a single or double bypass with that?
It's the slight edge. I see all of you on here faithfully tracking what you are consuming and doing your best to improve your health every single day. I've got to give you props, girls, because you are willing to do what the majority of Americans are NOT willing to do, which means YOU WIN.
Favorite quote: "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do." Jeff Olson
I don't live in a bubble, and I eat "normal" food too, it's just not my foundation anymore. I've learned SO much in the past 26 months about the way our bodies respond to the environment, stress, lack of sleep, and chemicals in and on our foods.
Well, today at a networking breakfast I looked around the table at the S.A.D. eating people, and I have to say I was disappointed.
There was the chiropractor, with his white flour pancakes, piling on butter (probably margarine
) and syrup. The semi-healthy eggs were smothered with cheese. To my right was a lady who is considerably past her ideal weight, and she had the big floppy pancake thing that oozed over the edges of her plate, with powdered sugar, butter (maybe?) and preserves. Hmm. And on around the table I looked, and yeah, it was SAD. (Standard American Diet) Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, IMO. I'm thinkin', you want a single or double bypass with that?
It's the slight edge. I see all of you on here faithfully tracking what you are consuming and doing your best to improve your health every single day. I've got to give you props, girls, because you are willing to do what the majority of Americans are NOT willing to do, which means YOU WIN.
Favorite quote: "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do." Jeff Olson
Titanium Blonde
on 9/24/08 5:02 am
on 9/24/08 5:02 am
Congratulations on your success. However you are sounding a little to smug for your own good. I was able to keep my weight off for years and years. However when I went into menopause and got diabetes it was near impossible to control my weight because of insulin resistance. Again congrats to your success, but it really is none of your business what your peers eat at a networking breakfast. I wonder what they would think if they could read your mind? If you don't have a weight problem you wouldn't be on this forum would you?
Ruth, thanks for that reminder and validation that we do try harder around here.
Normally I do not read others' reply posts and first reply with my own gut reaction, but I did look at calpersons comments. I feel that in general, smug is a strong term. But I do have thoughts after reading her post as it relates to other conversations I've had on lowcarbfriends. I did not have this outlook at all when I read your post, so her comments generated thie following:
Lots of people "get away" with eating the SAD plates. We around here do not, IMHO, cuz we likely screwed up our bodies long ago on ever eating that way again. Some were born that way, to be sure, to never be able to eat it.
My DH could eat like that most of his life! He still tries, he's in denial on how much weight he is packing on. I ate that way most of my life until I started to abuse fast food in particular. My mother fried most things in bacon grease, we drank whole milk, wonder bread slathered with margarine, bologna with miracle whip. We were not fat!
I think that (me included here) , we tend to think the dietary rules do not apply to us. For example, I know I was never concerned that i was making two boxes of rice a roni for my tiny family of four people!
I will always wonder if I as the cook & mom on board would have been more attentive to the AMOUNTS we all ate, would my kids have ever gotten fat as young adults? Luckily, they were never, then or now super morbidly obese.
Like you, I cannot help but note what people eat around me. I am truly fascinated. My colleagues will ***** about weight, like I have myself so many times, yet, sit there and eat a whole bagel - three servings! - with cream cheese and sugar/cream in the coffee.
Normally I do not read others' reply posts and first reply with my own gut reaction, but I did look at calpersons comments. I feel that in general, smug is a strong term. But I do have thoughts after reading her post as it relates to other conversations I've had on lowcarbfriends. I did not have this outlook at all when I read your post, so her comments generated thie following:
Lots of people "get away" with eating the SAD plates. We around here do not, IMHO, cuz we likely screwed up our bodies long ago on ever eating that way again. Some were born that way, to be sure, to never be able to eat it.
My DH could eat like that most of his life! He still tries, he's in denial on how much weight he is packing on. I ate that way most of my life until I started to abuse fast food in particular. My mother fried most things in bacon grease, we drank whole milk, wonder bread slathered with margarine, bologna with miracle whip. We were not fat!
I think that (me included here) , we tend to think the dietary rules do not apply to us. For example, I know I was never concerned that i was making two boxes of rice a roni for my tiny family of four people!
I will always wonder if I as the cook & mom on board would have been more attentive to the AMOUNTS we all ate, would my kids have ever gotten fat as young adults? Luckily, they were never, then or now super morbidly obese.
Like you, I cannot help but note what people eat around me. I am truly fascinated. My colleagues will ***** about weight, like I have myself so many times, yet, sit there and eat a whole bagel - three servings! - with cream cheese and sugar/cream in the coffee.
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." ~Mark Twain
Thanks, Neecee. In no way was I attempting to be smug... and for whatever reason I have not been able to view that comment on this page since I got an email alerting me to it. I just got the smug part, and that she was o****il menopause and diabetes set in... so I don't have the whole story.
I really just wanted to say that, as I read these daily posts of those who have made a decision to do what it takes to get in control of both their weight and their health, I am impressed. If you choose that great breakfast today, it won't suddenly change your life. That's why staying the course is hard sometimes. But those who blow it off and keep ordering the double slam day after day after day ONE DAY will pay for it. Whether they die skinny and diabetic, or obese with major complications - they will pay.
I'm so impressed, not smug, with those of you who are encouraging each other to find that program that works for you and stick to it, thick or thin (no pun intended) and success or temporary setback. It's the healthy choices I observe here, contrasted with the gluttony I saw this morning, that I was writing about. And while I understand that some people can eat the SAD plates with no outward visible repercussions, I am willing to put cold hard cash on it that they are rusting out from the inside due to processing too many calories.
My "I've kept it off for two years" comment is to qualify the fact that I didn't find a fad "diet", drop 30+ pounds, and think I was the be all end all of diet-hood. I still am required to practice daily disciplines to maintain the success that came not with a magic bullet, but with smart choices. If I feel like eating deep fried fish, french fries, and cole slaw, I do. I regret it in a couple of hours... but I'm not a holy foodie. My healthy body literally rejects unhealthy food now.
And I did the whole two boxes of Rice A Roni, Kraft Mac N Cheese, pork chops and gravy thing as well. We just did not know. But now that I do know, I can't imagine going back to that life. Grandma made us ho****er with whole milk and sugar. Mom fed us Wonderbread with margarine and white sugar, for gosh sakes. ICK!!!! It turns my stomach now, but who knew? And no, we weren't FAT. But were we headed for diabetes, etc? I think so! Mom had it. Dad had it. My sister has it. Uncles have died from complications of it. The one woman in my leads group (the breakfast of which started this tirade!) was ordered by her doctor to lose 45 pounds a YEAR ago. She came to me for help, but never followed through. She's one who orders the cinnamon roll (more like an entire CAKE, size wise) with fried eggs, hashed browns, and sausage. OMG! Give me a break. It's like - if they aren't going to give it 110% they aren't going to try AT ALL.
Well, I just guess I better get back to work here and stop typing!
I appreciate this group, and never wish to offend with my smugness. However, you all should duly remember that I've got perky boobs.
Ruth
I really just wanted to say that, as I read these daily posts of those who have made a decision to do what it takes to get in control of both their weight and their health, I am impressed. If you choose that great breakfast today, it won't suddenly change your life. That's why staying the course is hard sometimes. But those who blow it off and keep ordering the double slam day after day after day ONE DAY will pay for it. Whether they die skinny and diabetic, or obese with major complications - they will pay.
I'm so impressed, not smug, with those of you who are encouraging each other to find that program that works for you and stick to it, thick or thin (no pun intended) and success or temporary setback. It's the healthy choices I observe here, contrasted with the gluttony I saw this morning, that I was writing about. And while I understand that some people can eat the SAD plates with no outward visible repercussions, I am willing to put cold hard cash on it that they are rusting out from the inside due to processing too many calories.
My "I've kept it off for two years" comment is to qualify the fact that I didn't find a fad "diet", drop 30+ pounds, and think I was the be all end all of diet-hood. I still am required to practice daily disciplines to maintain the success that came not with a magic bullet, but with smart choices. If I feel like eating deep fried fish, french fries, and cole slaw, I do. I regret it in a couple of hours... but I'm not a holy foodie. My healthy body literally rejects unhealthy food now.
And I did the whole two boxes of Rice A Roni, Kraft Mac N Cheese, pork chops and gravy thing as well. We just did not know. But now that I do know, I can't imagine going back to that life. Grandma made us ho****er with whole milk and sugar. Mom fed us Wonderbread with margarine and white sugar, for gosh sakes. ICK!!!! It turns my stomach now, but who knew? And no, we weren't FAT. But were we headed for diabetes, etc? I think so! Mom had it. Dad had it. My sister has it. Uncles have died from complications of it. The one woman in my leads group (the breakfast of which started this tirade!) was ordered by her doctor to lose 45 pounds a YEAR ago. She came to me for help, but never followed through. She's one who orders the cinnamon roll (more like an entire CAKE, size wise) with fried eggs, hashed browns, and sausage. OMG! Give me a break. It's like - if they aren't going to give it 110% they aren't going to try AT ALL.
Well, I just guess I better get back to work here and stop typing!
I appreciate this group, and never wish to offend with my smugness. However, you all should duly remember that I've got perky boobs.
Ruth
We appreciate you too, Ruthie! 
And all of us broods with perky boobs have to stick together, no? 
A couple of weeks ago, Jay Leno said that for the third straight year in a row, Mississippi was the fattest state in the country. How Embarrassing! But when I go to the casino and see how much food that is consumed by the morbidly obese, I'm flabbergasted. So I understand the point you were making. And yes, we here are proud that at least we're trying to do better than the national average. Not smug, just taking a serious look at reality!
Mary
Yes, and Ruth's point was exactly as you say: when we are gaining we have to make a change. Something about what we are currently doing is not working.
Unless you choose to stay fat and whiny, you will begin to ask others hey, what do you know about this,get humble and take someone who has been successful at their word. Maybe their way will work for you, maybe it won't.
BTW: Ruth is not pushing her WOE down anyone's throat here. The jury is still out for me with her cleansing/herbal approach. I am in the process of trying it out, though! There is enough data and success that makes me take a second look. Let's face it, conventional things are not fitting into my life. Maybe I prevent that, who knows.
Ruth deserves to be a little smug. I feel smug too when I think of how perfectly capable folks in my life ***** about how they "don't have time" to exercise - not even 15 minutes to stagger around the block. Like I have time? Or any of you out there?
Unless you choose to stay fat and whiny, you will begin to ask others hey, what do you know about this,get humble and take someone who has been successful at their word. Maybe their way will work for you, maybe it won't.
BTW: Ruth is not pushing her WOE down anyone's throat here. The jury is still out for me with her cleansing/herbal approach. I am in the process of trying it out, though! There is enough data and success that makes me take a second look. Let's face it, conventional things are not fitting into my life. Maybe I prevent that, who knows.
Ruth deserves to be a little smug. I feel smug too when I think of how perfectly capable folks in my life ***** about how they "don't have time" to exercise - not even 15 minutes to stagger around the block. Like I have time? Or any of you out there?
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." ~Mark Twain
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