Society and Dieting

I came across something really disturbing on my weight loss site over the last few days.  A member had posted a blog about daily calorie intake and who the hell decides how much a person needs for a day.  She was complaining about not being able to eat 2000 calories in a day and how she felt over full and yuck when she did.  No one in the right mind can eat this amount of calories in a day.  At first I left it alone but I went back to it later and pointed out, I needed to eat at least 2500-2800 (higher end on gym days) to feel functional and anything less I felt like I was starving and people were at risk because this fat girl was hungry.  I explained to her that calorie differential plays a huge role in weight loss..to explain that because I finally get it.  To maintain my current weight I have to eat 3500 a day.  By eating 700-1000 calories less and working out 6 days a week I am forcing my body to use reserve fat and stuff to burn to run through my daily routine.  So I am losing somewhere between 1 lb-1.5 lb a week.  Anything lower and I would make myself sick.  So it is up to the individual dieter to do the research and set her calorie goal at something feasible, but still under what BMR is.  I went back to see if she had commented on it and I find she deleted that blog????? SO I did some investigating, she was under 150 lbs.  Of course she couldn't eat that much since she had been dieting....her calorie needs had dropped so she was making herself sick trying to meet a need that was no longer there.   Now granted this weight loss site is made from people trying to lose 10 lbs to 110 lbs or more.  But most people I have met and talked to on this site are like myself and have a substantial amount of weight to drop.  I also have seen and read a lot about  gyms giving skinny people a discount because it looks better and sells more memberships and some gyms having weight restricted workout machines and posting signs saying that if you are over the weight limit to please use there track until you can meet the requirement.  All of that said brings me to my point....

SOCIETY SUCKS FOR FAT PEOPLE.  If we are dieting...we get looked at because we sweat and struggle to breathe at the gym when we are first starting out. If we are not dieting....we get looked at like we should be doing something about the weight.  Guess what, I am done trying to please society.  Society needs to realize not every situation is the same.  Yes I am overweight.  According to the BMI scale I am morbidly obese, but when I did a body fat test using my height, weight, and measurements ..I supposedly am only 27% body fat which is acceptable.  HUH?????  Not sure how that works, but I know I still need to lose weight so I am gonna stick with it.  I am not suing a fast food chain because I got this way, I am not looking to get anything out of this blog except maybe a few thumbs ups, I am looking to change my....MY life for the better with the weight loss.  I would kindly appreciate it if the skinny bitches of society would keep their uneducated noses out of it.  When I first read the previously mentioned blog...I felt maybe I was doing something wrong...then I thought about what my nurtionist said and looked at my results.  Shit I was heading for it again, I was heading down that I can't do it slope.  I did the trying to put a cat in the bathtub hands and feet thing....

And proceeded back to my daily regime.  I let the blogger know hey...and then I find she removed it.  I think enough people set her straight about the whole calorie thing and that the individual decides.  It was funny she was trying to say the food and drug industry did this to make us all fat.  Ahh look the blame game yet again.  Not her fault, they forced her to eat the stuff to gain the 10 lbs she needed to lose. I love those people.


But to wrap this up....if you are gonna make a statement that you believe to be true...stand by it do not run when you are presented with different arguments.  And look for a free gym or a planet fitness in your neighborhood when it comes time to start making the trek to the gym.  Your wallet and your own ego will thank you.

Happy Dieting!!!

Exercise...to do or not to do?

Officially started month 2 on the second.  Feel amazing and I am pretty happy with my progress.  I also have been thinking again about some weight loss topics and came across a thought.  On the website that I use for tracking I have been blessed to meet a lot of people in a lot of different stages of weight loss.  Some just starting, some in the middle, and some towards the end and just maintaining so they don't go back to the beginning.  There is a common thread in the all of this.  Some days we just don't want to do it.  No want to get up off the couch and do it.  I have been there and and not letting myself go back down that road.  For the first time in I have no idea, my house is clean, my laundry is put away, and I am not groaning every time I move.  Hell my dirty laundry is even in the laundry basket.

When I first started tracking my exercise, I tracked everything because in my head...I figured I wasn't moving before, I am finally moving...this is exercise.  After two months, my gym time, my just dance time, my crunches...those get logged.  I only log an hour of house work and an hour of play time with Abbie during week and three hours of housework for Saturday (laundry day).  Yes there is more play time and probably more housework...I do cook and all of that fun stuff.  But if I tried tracking more, I would never ever ever eat the amount if calories needed to maintain that energy level without getting yelled at.  Having a hard enough time as is with trying to eat 2800.  But this is not the point....digressing as usual.

The point is all exercise starts somewhere.  I also learned it hurts more to sit on the couch and do nothing.  Thank You fibromyalgia.  I have finally found a routine that works that keeps everyone happy.  There are some days I don't want to find my shoes and do this.  Then I remember how hard it used to be to get off couch and pick up Abbie. Those days to get me motivated, I put on some cheesy music...Hanson comes to mind and dance in the kitchen in my socks.  Then putting my shoes on and doing what I got to do is a little easier.  It all starts somewhere and getting started is the hardest part of the battle.  10 mins....3 songs is better then none.  So don't worry if you can't run a marathon or your not sprinting through workouts.  God knows I am not, but I give it all I got.  But you have started and you are doing something only you can do for you...moving.    So you don't have weights..you have soup cans in the cabinet...those work till you are ready for the real deal.  So you got tired after 5 mins...okay do 5 mins later.  The point is just move.  Little bits at a time for small amounts of time till you are ready to take on a full fledged thing.  It took me 2 months to fully commit to  6 days a week of exercise and not scream in pain with movement at night or wake up stiff as hell in the morning.  Lets get moving guys...what have we got to lose?

Happy Dieting