The weight, like house clutter is definitely related to deeper issues. We hold on to those things, or eat, to sooth a deeper problem...only they make bigger problems because we get fatter and more messy the more we sooth and then we hold onto more things and eat more to sooth, only to get messier and fatter. It's a viscous cycle.
I've always been bothered by the experts, as well as the common population, who regard overweight people as simply being slobs who can't control their eating but feel sorry for those poor anorexics and binge eaters. When someone talks about an eating disorder, they're rarely talking about an overweight person. Being overweight is definitely a psychological problem and it is difficult to overcome. More research needs to be done in that area.
You know, I've read that the reason people in this country are gaining weight is that the foods that fatten us up (corn products) are subsidized while the stuff that's good for us (fruits and vegetables) is not. It is actually costing more to feed us now that I'm on a diet than it did when I was eating along with the guys. Yes we eat for recreation, to soothe ourselves, as a matter of habit. Damn, I want another muffin but I've already made it to 1400 calories today so I'm done. I'm doing well with a food and activities journal - I slavishly count those calories down to the last cup of coffee (35 calories with 2% milk and regular sugar), which isn't easy with the homemade stuff but I manage. I've even added up the calories of all the ingredients for a couple things I made. It helps to be working from cookbooks that give you nutritional information. If you can't find a recipe for something I've got some good books.
Ha, probably an article I need to follow the advice of. That was rough with that study, though, with the testing people shredding the people's stuff in front of them - bet I'd have a spaz, all right. I also found it curious with their description of the shelf full of mugs. Who ARE those people that look at them and only see mugs? Do they not remember where they got stuff? O_o
Well, at least Grandma has decided on an explanation for lots of shoes - I just think shoes are awesome, and there are never enough for each outfit and occasion. ^_^ (I totally feel them on broken stuff, though - I feel AWFUL throwing stuff like that out. It's sad and lonely and wants to be lurved. *huggles broken stuff*)
The thing with the mugs made me look askance, too. Can't we get attached to things? Whatever happened to 'sentimental value?' 'Souvenirs?' I don't want to live in a world where we are all emotionally detached from our surroundings and possessions; it makes it easier to depersonalize and devalue. Then you are one step from not giving a shit about anything. Life's a bitch and then you die
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I had to clean my grandmother's house out this summer. It was unspeakably hard. I very much wanted to hug everything to me, like aloysiusweasley simply because, even though I neither wanted nor needed it, it had sentimental value. The more into the cleaning I got, the more willing I was to get rid of stuff. I have been trying to downgrade the clutter in my own life, ever since
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Oh, the only thing about clutter is when I can't find something. There's one thing I'm on the lookout for down in the storage part of the basement and I know that there's buried treasure in my workroom. Just as long as I don't buy a replacement thinking that something is permanently gone. The large breakable heirloom things can be annoying, yes - like this huge bowl I have and the soup tureen (which I found packed inside the glass salad bowl I've had for, oh, 30 years) and how many boxes of antique dishes that don't match anything? Maybe shoes would be a safer, and more useful, obsession.
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I've always been bothered by the experts, as well as the common population, who regard overweight people as simply being slobs who can't control their eating but feel sorry for those poor anorexics and binge eaters. When someone talks about an eating disorder, they're rarely talking about an overweight person. Being overweight is definitely a psychological problem and it is difficult to overcome. More research needs to be done in that area.
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Yes we eat for recreation, to soothe ourselves, as a matter of habit. Damn, I want another muffin but I've already made it to 1400 calories today so I'm done. I'm doing well with a food and activities journal - I slavishly count those calories down to the last cup of coffee (35 calories with 2% milk and regular sugar), which isn't easy with the homemade stuff but I manage. I've even added up the calories of all the ingredients for a couple things I made. It helps to be working from cookbooks that give you nutritional information.
If you can't find a recipe for something I've got some good books.
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Well, at least Grandma has decided on an explanation for lots of shoes - I just think shoes are awesome, and there are never enough for each outfit and occasion. ^_^
(I totally feel them on broken stuff, though - I feel AWFUL throwing stuff like that out. It's sad and lonely and wants to be lurved. *huggles broken stuff*)
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The large breakable heirloom things can be annoying, yes - like this huge bowl I have and the soup tureen (which I found packed inside the glass salad bowl I've had for, oh, 30 years) and how many boxes of antique dishes that don't match anything?
Maybe shoes would be a safer, and more useful, obsession.
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