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ng healthy and filling food and still losing weight it worked well for me until i became a vegetarian i then maintained more or less the same weight for two years but wanted to lose more i have recently lost another four stone on lighter life which is a very low calorie diet this works by switching the body into ketosis which means that after the first 3 days you are just not hungry and weight loss is rapid the programme includes counselling and techniques to help overcome the issues which caused you to overeat it also switches you to food packs which provide the right nutrition and are different to normal food and on the total programme you abstain from normal food altogether and just eat packs i found this really helpful for breaking the cycle of food addiction i find it almost impossible to lose weight without being on some kind of programme where there is an expectation that you will turn up every week and have lost some weight paying for the group sessions is also a big motivator also lighter life and slimming world were developed by former fat people who actually understand what it s like to be overweight or obese many weight loss programmes don t offer support or techniques for maintaining your weight when you have finished your diet lighter life offers maintenance help continued access to packs when you need them and continued counselling sessions food addiction fattening food is addictive but unlike other addictive substances you can t just stop eating we need food to keep us alive you don t need alcohol drugs or nicotine though of course they can be really hard to give up too eating food with a high glycaemic index which means that the calories in it are released rapidly and used rapidly produces a spike in the level of blood sugar followed by a trough most people respond to the drop in blood sugar by eating again probably something else that is high gi this is addictive behaviour this diagram from st john s ambulance advice page on optimal nutrition for runners explains why if you are going for a run then a high gi spike may be good to give you the energy to get going but it is not good if you are sitting at your desk the aim of someone with a sedentary lifestyle should be to keep their blood sugar levels within the dotted lines on the graph so as not to experience a trough which leads to eating high gi food if you are addicted to tobacco alcohol drugs etc it is easier to remove yourself from environments where those things are available and they are not necessary to life unlike eating yes one can switch to healthier eating but that will probably only allow you to maintain weight it is hard to lose weight by healthy eating alone the weight loss resources site has a list of low gi foods emotional stress most overeating is in response to emotional stress i made a chart of my weight gains and losses over the years and all of my overeating and subsequent weight gains were due to some trauma in my life it is only by dealing with the underlying issues that i think i may have cracked it this time only time will tell but i am determined not to get so overweight again also it can be a vicious circle high weight leads to low self esteem so people self medicate by eating more to make themselves feel better that is not logical but human emotions rarely are this comment by rickylicious on the guardian article describes the vicious cycle of overeating and low self esteem really well here s an excerpt please do read the whole comment i hate being fat i can t stop eating i can t pull myself up by my bootstraps i keep trying i m sick of being told by everyone i meet that i need to diet or exercise more that much is self evident even to a stupid ignorant fatty like me i just get through each day as it comes as best i can then at the end of it all i eat and eat again then i feel disgusted with myself worthless the lighter life programme includes techniques from transactional analysis and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people to understand why they overeat and develop other coping mechanisms for emotional trauma feelings of emptiness and unhappiness even so i still struggle with the temptation to respond to any little feeling of stress with a binge i am still learning to manage my new lower weight as i have only recently finished lighter life social pressure just about every social occasion involves some pressure to eat fattening foods or drink highly calorific alcoholic drinks oh go on have another one it can t hurt we call these people feeders often they are people who have never had an issue with weight themselves and so just don t understand which foods are fattening and which are not the pressure to eat fattening foods is immense especially at weddings and family gatherings christmas work outings coffee with colleagues and so on and it s hard to go to the pub and have soda water especially if there are people who insist on offering you alcohol and think you are some kind of puritan if you decline fortunately my friends don t do this car culture i now live in oxford one of the most cycling friendly cities in the uk and even then it s sometimes scary which also has excellent public transport and is small enough to walk from one place to another however if you live in london which is downright dangerous to cycle in then that s just not going to be a good place to get exercise or if you live somewhere hilly it s difficult to cycle up those hills when you first start trying to get fit the culture of driving everywhere and constructing roads and other infrastructure so you have to drive to out of town shopping centres is surely a major contributor to the rise in obesity unhealthy food healthy food is harder to obtain and more expensive so many foods are packed full of processed starch sugar and fat vegetables are more expensive when i was doing the candida diet which cuts out sugar and yeast completely i had to visit three different supermarkets to get the products i needed most products are full of sugar loads of things are labelled low fat but hardly any are sugar free unhealthy food is widely available restaurants have now started offering calorie counted meals which is helpful but it is hard not to indulge in fattening things when everyone around you is doing so other health issues many people are overweight or obese due to other conditions such as diabetes thyroid conditions and so on it is not well understood how some people stay thin despite eating all sorts of fattening foods whereas others only have to look at a biscuit to put on several pounds i am not diabetic or anything but being obese caused me considerable joint pain and my legs are still not straight as a result of this walking long distances is really painful when you are obese cycling and swimming are good because they do not put stress on the joints but they are not available to everyone exercise why are there more food shops than swimming pools why are gyms so expensive to join why do they play awful pounding music what overweight or obese person would want to go to a gym full of skinny athletic people when we are convinced they are looking down on us for being fat and the sheer awfulness of physical education in this country must be a major contributor to the lack of exercise of many overweight people i hated pe at school i have no hand eye co ordination so could not play ball games i hated the picking of teams because i was always left till last how humiliating i was not very fit and already slightly podgy according to some though i now know that i actually had a healthy bmi i hated the competitive atmosphere and the gendering of sport and the way the bullies picked on me and my friends for being crap at sport and were allowed to get away with it nowadays i am told there is the ritual humiliation of the bleep test which is inflicted on pupils of pe and sounds like a cruel and unusual punishment i can honestly say that my experience of pe put me off all sport for decades nowadays i do yoga cycling and swimming but i do not see any of these as sport unhelpful comments the self righteous unsympathetic and generally unhelpful comments from others such as should you be eating that or every time i see you you are eating yes because it s lunchtime or suggestions on how to lose weight or comments that obese people die earlier and have heart conditions and diabetes and stressed joints or that losing weight is just a matter of will power or eating less and exercising more are really really unhelpful do the people making these comments not think that the obese person spends a considerable portion of their day mentally beating themselves up for being obese they do not need you to add to the chorus of internal self criticism it just makes avoidance of the issue more likely because the response of the obese person is to think sod you you don t know how it feels to be me you don t understand nutrition or diet or metabolism and so avoid the issue by creating a defense mechanism around the whole issue people don t feel they have the right to comment on other behaviour or appearance issues so why do they think they have a right to comment on people s weight you should never comment on someone s weight unless they themselves ask your opinion if you have never been overweight you can t understand the vicious cycles involved on the other hand when i was losing weight it was nice to get positive feedback from people in the form of compliments on my new slim appearance and many people approached it tactfully by saying you re looking well as some people prefer not to get comments on their weight loss this is probably a good idea if you don t know the person very well personal choice nothing in this article is intended to be detrimental to people who are happy with their shape and size if you are big and happy with it good for you it s completely rubbish that societal norms are geared towards being a stick insect and it s a fact that being underweight is more unhealthy than being obese i chose to lose weight because i found it physically painful carrying around the extra weight and because i am genderqueer i didn t like being curvy and buxom posted by yewtree at 11 12 am 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels culture dieting fat obesity overweight thursday february 14 2013 an interesting conversation i had an interesting conversation the other day i got chatting to a woman in a shop and the conversation ranged over a number of topics until it settled on same sex marriage so this woman had loads of gay friends so she said and she was ok with civil partnerships and yet she was opposed to same sex marriage her reason was but it says in the bible so i said but what about david and jonathan the bible says that david s love for jonathan surpassed his love for women oh yes said the woman then i said and what about ruth and naomi the vow that ruth made to naomi is used in wedding ceremonies and i talked about how amazing ruth s love for naomi was that she was prepared to go to another country and risk being sold into slavery because she loved her so much thanks to kittredge cherry for wising me up to the story of ruth and naomi and then i said god is love right and lgbt people love each other so that must be godly and it seemed that i had succeeded in changing her mind now if i had called her a bigot at the outset of the conversation that would have been it end of conversation and i don t think she was a bigot she wanted to understand and she seemed genuinely pleased to be offered a different interpretation of the bible so be careful before you jump to calling someone a bigot before you have found out what their real views are under a possibly very thin veneer of religious conformity also it helps if you know how to do liberal biblical interpretation posted by yewtree at 3 02 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bible christianity gay rights lesbian lgbt marriage wednesday january 16 2013 adjectives not nouns the trans community are not the only ones to point out that transsexual is not a noun it s an adjective there are many other groups who have made the same point it s rude to refer to someone as a dyslexic a spastic a gay a black a chinese a malay a ginger why is that well for one thing the characteristic being referred to is not the only significant thing about them it s not a defining characteristic they may also write poetry drive a vehicle tap dance sing be a great lover and so on there are plenty of alternatives to using these adjectives as nouns a transsexual person who could be male or female the term transsexual does not signify gender a gay person a person with ginger hair a ginger haired person a person with dyslexia a dyslexic person a person with cerebral palsy a black person a person of colour a chinese person a malaysian person of course their ethnicity is only relevant in the context of a conversation about ethnicity though several black people have pointed out recently that the whole colour blindness trope is actually really unhelpful and assimilationist posted by yewtree at 9 29 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ethnicity language lgbt older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2024 1 may 1 all eyes on rafah 2014 5 july 1 april 1 march 2 january 1 2013 7 december 1 october 1 september 1 february 2 january 2 2012 41 december 2 november 2 october 2 september 5 august 3 july 2 june 1 may 2 april 5 march 6 february 4 january 7 2011 23 december 3 october 2 september 3 august 1 july 7 june 3 may 2 april 1 march 1 2010 54 october 1 september 14 august 1 july 7 may 3 april 4 march 12 february 7 january 5 2009 69 december 5 november 9 october 5 september 7 august 4 july 9 june 4 may 5 april 7 march 6 february 5 january 3 2008 42 december 3 november 6 october 2 september 3 august 2 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