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Originally Posted by fengshway
oh carey, hugs to you. I had to learn the same painful lesson. at 228, I knew I needed to do something, so I joined weight watchers, lost a little weight. discovered walking, and walked the full disney marathon in 2000 weighing 208 pounds. I decided that being fit and fat was just great--I could be healthy AND overweight. and I believed that until the following year when my fit self was diagnosed with hypertension and placed on medications. I knew I was headed down the same hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart attack stroke path that my parents are on because of their obesity. I finally had to realize that being overweight was just not an option.
I read somewhere that obesity is 10 percent genetic 10 percent exercise and 80 percent food. I don't know if that is true or not, but I certainly spent a lot of time on the exercise thing, and got extremely fit, but the thinner part didn't happen until I paid attention to my nutrition.
a good example from my current life. I am now a marathon runner. when I do my 26 mile practice runs, I burn around 2800-3100 calories for that episode of exercise. do you know how fast I can polish off 2800 cal??? that is one meal at carrabas with wine and dessert. for me to exercise off the calories that I was eating before would take up so much time, that I would have little time for anything else.
but I find that it has been important not to DIET. I love the way I eat now. I just finished my ahi tuna with whole wheat pasta and bruschetta sauce. all clean. all wonderful. no deprivation.
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Thank you so much! I agree with all you said. I have been working on my nutrition for over a year now--I mean seriously working on it. I've never dieted in my life. I was always the "skinny one" until I started having kids. I wouldn't even know where to begin with "dieting." But I have been trying really hard to eat clean for a year now, and until last month, I was really faithful to it. In a year of eating clean and working out faithfully, I never got below 143. And I think last month, I just sort of went, WHATEVER. If I can't lose, why not just eat what I want? I know, not a good attitude. I'm trying really hard to lose the 'tude now.
But I also think something else is going on. In addition to the inability to drop below 143 pounds no matter what I do, I have a whole host of other symptoms ranging from extreme fatigue to low blood pressure to heavy periods and a number of other things that doctors having been telling me are unrelated to one another and I just have to live with. I have an appointment with a holistic doctor tomorrow afternoon, and I'm praying that gives me some insight. Because I don't buy that the symptoms are unrelated, and I don't buy that I have to live with them! Here's hoping my intuition is right! Meanwhile, however, I have no intention of giving up on clean eating or fitness!