Obesity

[PilgrimPassingThrough]

K, so why do I aways think I need to get my 2 cents in?  Oh well, here goes....

I don't know muchonuttin about meds.  I do know I go for sugar/carbs when I really need

calcium/magnesium....and I'll gorge, unsatisfied, till I remember to take my supps.

 

And I know this.  When I've got my head in the fridge again...and I'm not hungry... 

Time to get honest.

Time to ask myself:  What am I feeling right now?

Let myself feel it

Drift with it...when did I first feel that way?

I'll get a memory.  Let it come.  Own the feelings.  Get real.

Decide what I believed about myself right there...(I'm unlovable.  I'm worthless. I'm.....)

Ask Jesus what HE thinks about that.

 

"Comfort food" is for a soul out of peace.  Soul in (Christ's) peace:  no other

comfort needed.  He (as always) is the Answer. 

[WIP]

A few people have mentioned knowing others who have gained a lot of weight due to taking Prednisone. I was on this medication for some time ...Prednisone increases the appetite therefore those having this medication must be very disciplined as to what they are eating.

I ate more fruit, no sweets, puddings/cakes etc and I had little to no weight gain..  That old saying is true "no pain..no gain"

[missmuffet]

It all depends on how much Prednisone you are taking and how long you have been on it.Yes,it can increase your appetite but it can also make you retain fluids and swell.It can be common to gain 50 lbs.or more from just fluid retention.

[WIP]

Very true Bopeep it does cause fluid retention but because I'm a cranberry juice fan and a several mugs of coffee a day person I retained very little fluid if any.

[Willa]

Prednisone togther with a diet that started with 3 days of high fuctose corn syrup put me into diabetes. I gained a lot of weight. The diet was the LA Weight Loss Diet, and I cannot recommend it. That was 20 years ago and I still struggle, in spite of counting calories and seeing a Registered Dietition concerning my diet.

In addition, scientists have discovered that weight gain can be genetic, based on the study of twins separated at birth and their diets.

Some studies have also shown that some people gain weight as a response to stress, even when on a strict or unchanged diet. It supposedly is a reaction to protect from starvation under extreme conditions.

Our society has been extremely judgemental, condemning obese people for gluttony. This may be true in some cases, but few go beneath the outward appearance and see the heart. Some do have psychological reasons, some environmental, some medical, but most obese people have little idea how they got that way and only feel the judgement and scorn of others. This creates a psychological problem if there were none before.

[missmuffet]

Very true Bopeep it does cause fluid retention but because I'm a cranberry juice fan and a several mugs of coffee a day person I retained very little fluid if any.

If you are losing alot of fluids you need to be sure that you are not losing alot of potassium and Mg.That can run havoc on the heart rhythm.

[ayin jade]

Our society has been extremely judgemental, condemning obese people for gluttony. This may be true in some cases, but few go beneath the outward appearance and see the heart. Some do have psychological reasons, some environmental, some medical, but most obese people have little idea how they got that way and only feel the judgement and scorn of others. This creates a psychological problem if there were none before.

So true.

[Fez]

Can you equate controlling eating to giving up smoking?

 

Is there any fundamental difference?

[ayin jade]

Can you equate controlling eating to giving up smoking?

Is there any fundamental difference?

Keep in mind that I have not judged smokers or obese people .....

Nicotine is addictive. So in that, there is a difference.

I also think the growth and other hormones present in the meat raised at least in th us is in part responsible for our weight problems. They are designed to fatten up the animals. So it fattens us up.

[missmuffet]

 

Our society has been extremely judgemental, condemning obese people for gluttony. This may be true in some cases, but few go beneath the outward appearance and see the heart. Some do have psychological reasons, some environmental, some medical, but most obese people have little idea how they got that way and only feel the judgement and scorn of others. This creates a psychological problem if there were none before.

So true.

 

If you were to be thin and then instantly transform into a heavy person you would be treated differently.The world does not look kindly on heavy people.Very sad.  It lowers your self esteem and your confidence.A very humbling experience.