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[yumikid]

Just finished reading Portia de Rossi's book, Unbearable Lightness. It probably says something about my own issues with food and body image that I finished the book feeling really fat and while I admire Portia for her courage and her hard work overcoming her eating disorder, there's a small part of me that also admires the discipline it took her to

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[vandyke_brown]

"I conveniently forgot to adjust my calorie intake accordingly. Why, hello there, extra 20 pounds! "

Yeah. This.

[yumikid]

This is what I'm really trying to avoid, for sure. I know it's part of it. The fact that it coincided with Christmas is just dumb luck.

[vandyke_brown]

If it helps any I put on 10 lbs when I stopped breast feeding P, and put on 40lbs when I worked at 2nd cup.

Just avoid a food service job, and you're golden!

[everlastinggoo]

First of all, love your icon.

there's a small part of me that also admires the discipline it took her to get down to less than 90lbs. (Yes, I am aware that isn't a healthy thought. I think we're all just lucky that I'm too lazy to have an eating disorder - I just don't have the time or energy.)
I completely, totally, 100% relate to that entire statement.

I'm also quite terrible with eating too fast. I have to eat quickly at work because with the nature of the job we don't have a defined lunch break--we eat when we can. Unfortunately that carries over into all the time.

Writing down what I eat helps me immensly. You'll be fine...a little focus and that "resolve face" and those thin jeans will be comfy again in no time. :)

[yumikid]

Have you ever been eating with someone and you look up to find them staring at you oddly? Was it because in the time it took them to adjust their serviette, pull their plate closer, pick up their cutlery and take their first bite, you'd already eaten half your food?

This happens to me a lot. *grin*

I also need to get on the freaking treadmill. This will help.

[everlastinggoo]

Ha...yeah, quite frequently. I'm almost always the first one done eating; I have to make a conscious effort to eat slowly and really think about each bite.

The really bizarre thing about it is that I'm also really sensitive about it. If someone comments on how fast I eat I get really defensive and clam up. I think it's an esteem/image issue for me--if they comment on how fast I'm eating, they must think I'm a hog. Adam has long since learned not to say a word about it--especially since one time on a particularly rough day I started crying. (hormones are lovely, eh?)

[yumikid]

I tend to have a similar reaction. I feel like when people say "You eat really fast!" they are saying "You're a pig."