tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post5199571599009943967..comments2024-03-28T03:40:29.423-04:00Comments on Passage des Perles: A doc, a diet, a decisionDuchessehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986153653120526776noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-70767784976601950772008-06-16T18:06:00.000-04:002008-06-16T18:06:00.000-04:00Yes, I think I do the same thing with work-I love ...Yes, I think I do the same thing with work-I love to make order out of chaos:)<BR/>I have to tell you a woman who works for me lives on coffee and nicorettes. I have asked her if she would like to at least go out and have a decent lunch break. No, she never wants to take a break even. She stops long enough to open a new pack of nicorettes. She is thin as a whippett but looks hungry-Anjela's Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06209844678269049392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-45367312496155994582008-06-15T15:20:00.000-04:002008-06-15T15:20:00.000-04:00Anjela: oooh, your experience reminds me so much o...Anjela: oooh, your experience reminds me so much of my gorgeous GF M., who was a traffic stipper. She'd drop 30 lbs in 6 weeks by ordering injections from Mexico, damn the risk. Finally (with all that yo-yo, inevitably) gained 60 lbs and came to see me in tears: my butt is thesize of Cleveland. <BR/>Took her shopping, Marina Rinaldi plus a few other boutiques. The deal is getting clothes that fit.<BR/><BR/>For me there is<BR/>1. My old pre-children, pre-menopause weight: unachievable <BR/>2. An OK ample... my husband thinks I'm sexy at this weight and my MD scolds<BR/>3. Out of hand: can feel myself shaking, butt or belly, when I move; this is not good.<BR/><BR/>Right now at 2 and want to hold there.<BR/><BR/>It's hard to lose getting looks. <BR/><BR/>I remember my friend's Engish mother describing one of her contemporaries, a woman who starved herself on cigarettes and salad: "One of those terrible thin women."Duchessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986153653120526776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-45521778680646665062008-06-15T10:35:00.000-04:002008-06-15T10:35:00.000-04:00I want to join your club.I have eaten my way to pu...I want to join your club.<BR/>I have eaten my way to putting on 30 extra pounds on a tall but thin frame. My feet ache.<BR/>I could site moving house. Best friend dying. Pet dying. All in the last 6 months but I would still have eaten the same amounts. I can't 'blame' anything except my hand which loves tempting my mouth.<BR/><BR/> I can easily get the weight off if I run on the tredmill every day and reduce crunchy french bread and organic butter. <BR/><BR/>Every year when I went home to Ireland I frantically lost weight- I felt I had to get back to where I was 27 years ago as a fashion model. I could lose 30 pouds at the drop of a hat- People would say "Jaysus, you have foud the fountain of youth" <BR/>Once home (in America)I would use the tredmill as a laundry hamper and indulge again in Weetabix with milk and bananas. Mashed potatoes with bangers. Bread and salads with dressing. Not huge portions but, nibbled my way very quickly back up to where I wanted to be. I look at other women (and yes, I am straight.....) I see women who are full figured as being very beautiful-a part of me wants to be one of those women) I aspire to being that person. Not the slim 30 pounds less woman that men are interested in and women seem to envy.<BR/>I have become all but invisible. <BR/>I don't have to go home this year so I am at my peak of weight. <BR/>I long to be looked at at times. Long to see men screech to a halt or back up their cars or stop and stare and leave me feeling amused. Now the screeching brakes are because they are lost or need an overhaul. AhhhhhhhhhAnjela's Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06209844678269049392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-82450914429551458772008-06-12T13:19:00.000-04:002008-06-12T13:19:00.000-04:00duchesse - I've learned that few docs really have ...duchesse - I've learned that few docs really have much grounding in nutrition. And your doc seems to have bought into the extra pounds = heart disease mythology, regardless of other risk factors. (And statistically the highest longevity is among those who are a little "overweight.") I personally think beyond avoiding crappy, overprocessed junk food, that optimum health and happiness comes from eating a variety of delicious, well-prepared food.Susan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005855250089328310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-57044268949307099292008-06-12T03:25:00.000-04:002008-06-12T03:25:00.000-04:00I woke this morning thinking of your blog. You se...I woke this morning thinking of your blog. You see, I am a great advocate of Weightwatchers, but not as it is prescribed to users.<BR/><BR/>Just we are encouraged to be individual in our interpretation of fashion, so I have found that the same applies to WW. It helped me rediscover the elegance of food so that smaller portions of really tasty healthy food have now become the norm for me. <BR/><BR/>I have a close friend who has reconstructed her life after starting AA three years ago, and never ceases to express her relief at no longer feeling that need for a drink. In much the same way I'm so relieved, after years of yoyo dieting and constant deprivation, to be able to approach my food with a healthy psychological attitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-55347200155393540892008-06-11T18:51:00.000-04:002008-06-11T18:51:00.000-04:00Belette: The restrict/obsess thing, isn't that a w...Belette: The restrict/obsess thing, isn't that a weird dynamic? Happens to me too. <BR/><BR/>Greying Pixie: That's her diet, not one recommended for me, thanks be! And I said the same thing, "No FRUIT?"Duchessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986153653120526776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-59122950510179625692008-06-11T15:42:00.000-04:002008-06-11T15:42:00.000-04:00duchesse, my concern is that any doctor whould adv...duchesse, my concern is that any doctor whould advise you to avoid fruit, which is one of the basic most easily digestible and natural foods and sources of natural carbs and loads of essential vitamins. This is especially worrying as she is advising raw food, so fruit would be a natural choice for this.<BR/><BR/>In fact I would say that your doctor's advice does not sound like a well balanced diet in any sense of the word and would result in sheer misery. If I had to live the rest of my life without fruit I think I'd rather go tomorrow!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872918251244874644.post-44738853331019898032008-06-11T10:47:00.000-04:002008-06-11T10:47:00.000-04:00I don't think you actually live longer on the no m...I don't think you actually live longer on the no meat, no fruit, no starch, no sweets and raw diet--it just feels like an eternity. <BR/><BR/>The more I restrict myself the more obsessive I become. I find that all that I think about is food and body at the exclusion of everything else.<BR/><BR/>My grandmother lived to 101 and never ate a vegetable in her life that wasn't cooked in bacon fat. She really didn't get the concept of a salad. <BR/><BR/>I could lose some weight, but I find I lose weight when I am passionate about my life and so busy doing what I want to do that I am not that concerned with a cookie. I will not diet again. I have better things to do with my psychic energy than obsess about my weight.<BR/><BR/>I am really enjoying the posts that were inspired by Deja Pseu's great post. Great food for thought. Thanks, Duchesse! ;-)La Belette Rougehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05686717070120116918noreply@blogger.com