Diets Don't Work
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THE MISSING LINK
Recently, I lost a friend to the horrible disease of anorexia. I know she wanted to live. I also know she wanted the pain to end. She wasn’t purposefully not eating to try to end her life. Anorexia is a disease that confuses the brain and takes it over to the point where you cannot make rational decisions about your health. It is a mental disorder, and with it comes the fear of food and fear of fat. Medical definition of anorexia and atypical anorexia[i] Anorexia Nervosa: 307.1 (F50.01 or F50.02) Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of…
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Pandemic Crisis
I fight my internalized fatphobia every moment of every day. I want to go back to that thin body but I know that is impossible. Don’t you know diets fail? Don’t you know that you’ll just put more weight on? Don’t you know that, yes, you may be able to diet one more time, but do you have one more recovery left in you? I repeat these things in my head. Then along comes this thing called a pandemic, and with it all these jokes about “the COVID 15,”and how you can’t stop eating while you’re home, and how you’re going to weigh so much they’ll have to find a forklift to carry…
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What’s Your But?
WHAT’S YOUR BUT? But this won’t work, but I can’t do that, but this is hurting me, or this person did this or that to me. I think we all have them and we get in a vicious circle explaining them. What’s your excuse for not taking care of yourself? What’s your reasoning for denying the self care you deserve? I’ve just begun to realize that all my reasons why this or that won’t work are just excuses, my buts. Tell me to read – I can’t sit still that long or I have no concentration. Tell me to get out – I have a fear of people. Tell me…
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Diets Dont Work
How many diets have you been on? How many of them have you blamed yourself for not following through with them? How many of them are called lifestyle changes? There are thousands of different diets out there and everyone claims to have the answer to the quick fix of loss of weight. Well, I’m here to tell you that diets do not work. In studies of diets, it has been proven that diets only work 2-5% of the time. If a surgeon told you an operation only had a 2-5% chance of you surviving would you take that chance.? What if the surgeon said that 95-98% of the time…
