May 6th marks international no-diet day. It is a day we cast off food plans, points, fads, and celebrate our bodies as is. I think a lot of people confuse the idea of giving up dieting as meaning we are going to give up being healthy. But for me and many other people, giving up dieting was the first step towards health. We no longer allowed the diet, drug, and Weight loss industry dictate how we should feel on any given day.
Another reason not to diet is the fact none of them work in the long term. Low fat/low carb/etc are ALL reduced calories diets. Diet pill or supplement don't work in the long term and can have bad side effects. Weight loss surgery includes fatigue, vitamin deficiency, weight regain, and death. (it doesn't matter where you have the surgery, the death rates are the sameno matter how much expertise the bariatric center has.)
Dieting and weight obsession causes eating disorders which are high even among children. It fosters self-hate and low self-esteem.
So for this INND, I share with you a poem I wrote a while back. It deals with my last diet which was marred with vomiting, heart palpitations, terrible fatigue and stomach ailments. These are my thoughts after vomiting and experience extreme pain of burning from my stomach to my throat.
Dieting
On the cold floor,
My stomach is empty,
I can’t eat anymore.
I try to remember
Every time I want to lose a few pounds
The burning inside.
Five years later,
I still recover.
I resist--
Don’t eat carbs.
Don’t eat fat.
Don’t eat white.
Don’t eat when you are hungry.
Don’t eat if you are fat.
I try to remember
The cold floor
And the purging that never stopped.
That was beautiful and awful at the same time. How thought provoking. Thank you.
Posted by: Sarah R | May 12, 2009 at 08:22 AM
I eat whenever I am hungry and I stop when I am full but I lost weight anyway. I cut way back on sodas and sugar. There is no minimum daily requirement for refined sugar.
Look at it this way, is there any amount of celery you could eat that would make you fat? I think you could eat so much celery you could get sick, but I would bet you still wouldn't get fat. By the way, I don't eat much celery,it's just an example. I do eat lasagna and burgers but no cookies and no cake. I also eats lots of fruit and veggies. But no crackers and no donuts. Can you live with out donuts? I do.
By the way, you look just fine in your photo so why be concerned about it at all?
Posted by: Still Lose Weight | May 23, 2009 at 09:00 PM