I utterly and completely believe that so much of our weight comes from our past, our feelings about ourselves. I believe that our environment as a youth impacted our way of thinking about our bodies, especially as young women or men.
Educating our children now is so important. I am all for Body Acceptance and Dieting should be eradicated from the earth!! :) I wished I had a foundation growing up based on accepting my body for the way it was. I wished that I wasn't put on a diet as a teenager. I wish I knew what healthy eating looked like, but, I can't go back and change it.
My parents were stress eaters. I watched what they ate, and so much focus was on me being a "big girl", when in reality...I really wasn't. Dieting lead down a destructive path. A road that I wished I never took. But, I did and for other reasons that I will discuss later. That and being introduced to the world of dieting at such an early age led to some serious health issues for me. When you yo-yo so much, your bodies metabolism really gets messed with. Your hormones get out of whack. Eventually, your body doesn't know whether it is coming or going.
Anyway, I wonder if you learned bad habits growing up and how your upbringing affected your weight? Thoughts?
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I *did* learn bad habits growing up and was slightly overweight as a teen but it didnt become a problem until, as an adult, I went through some severe trauma and used to it to get by. My problem wasnt so much with food as with my ability to cope with stress. Maybe if I had a way of dealing with that then weight and what I eat wouldnt have been such a big issue.
So true........ I'm the fat sister... who always tried to "race" my dad at the dinner table... only now do I know that the only one that KNEW we were racing was ME! Speed Kills! :)
Even now... eating too fast with my band KILLS me.
Good Luck, your surgery is coming up
Hi! I'm in the early stages of considering WLS and of selecting a "structured diet program" for six months (people, I have been on a freaking diet my entire life!). Just wanted to tell you that I wish you all the best in your journey and I'm looking foward to reading how it all goes for you as part of my own research!
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