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Originally Posted by diamondpete
lostdog, your willpower thread linked me over here. While I have never more than about 10 kg overweight, I think there is a lot of wisdom in this post. Now I am not superhappy (and I usually am), primarily because I can exercise/train/do MA/ and the worst, can't even pick up my kids (not even the little 4 year old). It is a temporary thing, but I have been eating like crap, things I almost never eat. I had donuts (I don't even like them, and I don't think I have eaten one in more 3 years), and a bunch of other crap that I don't like.
Basically I have just been letting myself go and eat things for no particular reason other than they were there. Weird- in light of your post perhaps not so weird, but then again I have never, at least consciously used food for solace.
Anyway, an interesting post (well written, too)
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Pete, I hope you can pull out of this (and feel physically better, too). I've had some similar feelings lately. A hurt shoulder derailed my workout plans, bummed me out, and I just sort of went half-assed for a bit.
I'm a bit better now, but only because I admitted it and got some support from my friends. They helped me pull out of it.
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Originally Posted by stingo
I think it's a question of where your horizons are set. when I was in the 300's my ideas about happiness were a lot more circumscribed than they are now. Much like the people in Plato's cave, watching shadows on the wall and thinking the shadows were real. If I recall correctly, the watchers were chained to the cave wall either literally or figuratively - which I feel is my/our preconceptions of how life is and how it should be. One person breaks those chains and gets out of the cave into the light of the real world, and returns to tell the others what he's seen. Sadly the other cave dwellers don't want to hear this and end up killing the guy, so as to preserve their notion of the way things are and ought to be. Why be content with shadows?
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I'll have to read that again. I read it a long time ago, but that was Before Happiness.
Some things read and look differently now. I think that's part of the point, right?