I've been thinking today about the situation we find ourselves in here on Minimins. We've all got our varying reasons for being overweight, but every book I've read on the subject, every tv programme about large people seem to want to blame fatness on emotional eating.... More specifically something horrible that happened at some point in life that large people squashed and blocked out with food.
I know this might be true for some people but is this generalisation true for all of us? I've wracked my brains to see if I could come up with some traumatic event and I can't. I had the best childhood anyone could ask for, freedom and the great outdoors, before political correctness and health and safety stopped kids from having fun. My teens were average, normal problems a teen suffers, no bullying or anything like that.
All I can think of is when I went to uni I piled on weight in first year because I lived in catered accommodation and I drank lots too. I also stopped all my sporting activities. That's why I put on weight, nothing sinister, no repression.
The trouble is all the help books focus on facing your past demons so you can move ahead and lose weight. I haven't got these demons, does that mean I can't lose weight and keep it off forever?? No one offers to help people who became fat because they were greedy and lazy (which is/was/is me).
The other thing I've thinking is that the weight isn't shifting fast enough for my liking at the moment. I know I know, I'm only a week in but I'm impatient. If only it came off as fast as it goes on
Sorry for this epic post, I needed to get my head clear.