MissAma
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This is an AMAZING thread. Thank you KD, Mini-Me and all others but Katy in particular for initiating the discussion!
I'm still at the start of the journey (4th week of CD) but I am desperate to make sure I set this in stone in my psychic, the length of the battle from now on, the permanent changes, essentially all that has to give
I typically only accept something after copious amounts of research and it only becomes ingrained after lengthy sessions of reading and debating it so these threads can only help.
One of the goals I've had before I started CD was that I prepare myself mentally for a new life. This to me, involved learning all there is to learn about nutrition and human physiology in all things nutrition connected from metabolic processes to hormonal signals and their translation into weight gain. So I've started a small list of things I need to read on such as Hormones, Aliments, Nutrition information, Exercise information, etc. Eventually I'd like it if I attended a dietist's education or at least a nutrition course but before that (or in the absence of that as my busy professional life may not permit) I need to try and assimilate info on my own. So as you may imagine, with this obsessive compulsive of nature I am grateful to discover others are built the same.
In fact I would have presumed all people capable of drastic weight loss are poised to go the distance and educate themselves but then I came to discover that is wrong. Both my DH and my mother are on the Cambridge and I get to witness very different attitudes to dieting and food in general daily. From postponing their cravings -which seems disastrous to me- to bargaining -the mechanism of grief at its purest form- and to essentially both being keen on the idea of a formula once they have to maintain. In short they hope they will know "what works, what I should eat, a sample menu or two". It's that mentality I am trying to avoid by wanting to learn the ins and outs because it's pure self sabotage, IMO, to presume a formula works when maintaining. Would it be easier if it did and we wouldn't have to educate ourselves at the same time that we exercise our will power? Sure! Is there any point in wishing we could have it easy? In envying the ones who are thinner? About as much point as in wishing we were taller or that our heads were square but the only difference is this we can do something about!
All in all, to me, the best warranty I can issue to myself together with shedding the weight is to educate myself to the point that healthy and balanced eating and exercising will be as clear and ingrained of concepts as the multiplication table!
I'm still at the start of the journey (4th week of CD) but I am desperate to make sure I set this in stone in my psychic, the length of the battle from now on, the permanent changes, essentially all that has to give
I typically only accept something after copious amounts of research and it only becomes ingrained after lengthy sessions of reading and debating it so these threads can only help.One of the goals I've had before I started CD was that I prepare myself mentally for a new life. This to me, involved learning all there is to learn about nutrition and human physiology in all things nutrition connected from metabolic processes to hormonal signals and their translation into weight gain. So I've started a small list of things I need to read on such as Hormones, Aliments, Nutrition information, Exercise information, etc. Eventually I'd like it if I attended a dietist's education or at least a nutrition course but before that (or in the absence of that as my busy professional life may not permit) I need to try and assimilate info on my own. So as you may imagine, with this obsessive compulsive of nature I am grateful to discover others are built the same.
In fact I would have presumed all people capable of drastic weight loss are poised to go the distance and educate themselves but then I came to discover that is wrong. Both my DH and my mother are on the Cambridge and I get to witness very different attitudes to dieting and food in general daily. From postponing their cravings -which seems disastrous to me- to bargaining -the mechanism of grief at its purest form- and to essentially both being keen on the idea of a formula once they have to maintain. In short they hope they will know "what works, what I should eat, a sample menu or two". It's that mentality I am trying to avoid by wanting to learn the ins and outs because it's pure self sabotage, IMO, to presume a formula works when maintaining. Would it be easier if it did and we wouldn't have to educate ourselves at the same time that we exercise our will power? Sure! Is there any point in wishing we could have it easy? In envying the ones who are thinner? About as much point as in wishing we were taller or that our heads were square but the only difference is this we can do something about!
All in all, to me, the best warranty I can issue to myself together with shedding the weight is to educate myself to the point that healthy and balanced eating and exercising will be as clear and ingrained of concepts as the multiplication table!
