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How many times have you heard it, from friends, from loved ones, parents, sisters, strangers in the queue at the supermarket, whispered behind you on the bus, on the way home from work.
"All you need is WILLPOWER to lose weight". As if it is a major deficiency of mental ability, a social stigma that is the equivalent of having leprosy. "You don't have will power, you weakling!"
For half my life I believed I lacked 'will power', that I had this mental illness that shoved me down the social acceptability scales by many points. All because of one aspect in my life, just one. The inability to lose weight. The worst offender was my mother. She had an overactive thyroid all her life, she couldn't have put on weight if she had tried. But she was the most hurtful critic, I just didn't come up to standards she set, even knowing she had an unfair advantage. The numbers of times she managed to sabotage my weight loss with little snippets of barbed comments along the lines of...
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"All you need is WILLPOWER to lose weight". As if it is a major deficiency of mental ability, a social stigma that is the equivalent of having leprosy. "You don't have will power, you weakling!"
For half my life I believed I lacked 'will power', that I had this mental illness that shoved me down the social acceptability scales by many points. All because of one aspect in my life, just one. The inability to lose weight. The worst offender was my mother. She had an overactive thyroid all her life, she couldn't have put on weight if she had tried. But she was the most hurtful critic, I just didn't come up to standards she set, even knowing she had an unfair advantage. The numbers of times she managed to sabotage my weight loss with little snippets of barbed comments along the lines of...
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Nearly 5 years, my how time flies. My current weight is 135, and I have decided to start fasting more often to get to my goal of 128. Anything between 128-132 is good these days. I have been around...
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With two big holiday events in the past 10 days, my eating parameters have suffered a bit to say the least! For some reason I just could not get myself to fast this past week AT ALL, plus those two events...
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I feel like I've entered the doldrums of weightloss, where everything goes sooooo sloooowly.... But I've finally touched the 152's! Yay! And I went clothes shopping this past weekend (my body was looking...
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Popped back up to the 155 range this morning (10/30/2017), but feels like this is the ceiling instead of the floor this time, which is encouraging. Besides, my monthly cycles appeared today, so must allow...
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I'm currently shifting a lot of my mindset and methods this week, so I'm jumping off the weeks and switching to days. This is, after all, a whole life kind of thing, right? Besides, I don't like having...
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Good luck, @moderatemeals! I think you'll love this way of life!
Losing 1.6 pounds is hardly a plateau! You are not going to keep losing at the same rate as the beginning. You should be very happy with 1 pound a week!
Thanks for the comment, cblasz.
Maybe this WOE is so successful that everyone's lost the weight and got on with their lives! I can hope ...
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Maybe this WOE is so successful that everyone's lost the weight and got on with their lives! I can hope ...
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Yes, it is terribly dead here, especially lately. I think that people either just have all the information they need or have stopped this WOE. It is a shame. But stick around. It seems to go in waves....
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