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Originally Posted by NickW  funchy, why are you doing this to yourself? Have you inquired? Why turn food into a distracting, painful fetish? It's only lunch, for God's sake. Eat, enjoy, relax. Are you using food as a way to express some strange mental disorder" |
I have the same strange mental disorder 60% of American adults have: I am overweight to the point it's unhealthy. In my case, it just got worse as I got older.
I have an overactive appetite plus I have the metabolism to hold onto weight, even with daily exercise. I weigh 290, even with being very active; a healthy weight for me is 185-190 lbs.
Eat, enjoy, relax is literally killing me. I'm only 36, and my BMI is over 40. I've been to doctors, nutritionists, regular diets, blood tests, counselors, you name it. I completely gave up sugar-soda, fast food, and chips. I've done south beach, low-carb, low-fat, fasting diets, supplements, etc. I was at the Y doing exercises classes 5 days a week. The next step my doctor said is gastric bypass (stomach stapling surgery), if I don't immediately made a radical change.
"Normal" food will be my demise. I feel like I need to go through an extreme temporarily to regain a normal relationship with food, when living in a world where all the food around me is over-processed, over-salted, artificial, and for lack of a better world 'dead'.
I originally saw
a CNN story on a woman who lost half her body weight going raw, and I was intrigued. I am already vegetarian. So when I came across Steve's inspiring journal explaining how easy raw is, I wanted to try it. If nothing else, it just wanted to see what it was like.
I was just puzzled why I hit a roadblock that made me not want to eat at all, as that doesn't usually happen to me. All the books say it's terrible to drop under 1500 or 1000 calories/day, so I wasn't sure if was a big deal if it only happened occasionally.
Thanks, everyone, for sharing your thoughts!