Allergic to Food - POSTED ON: Mar 12, 2016
Before & After Photos - Weight History - POSTED ON: Mar 01, 2016
My weight has yo-yoed all during my lifetime. I began dieting in puberty, for weight-loss and for maintenance, and I continued doing so during every year of the next 60+ years. During non-dieting months, my weight increased. At three separate times in my life, I successfully lost 100+ pounds, and a great many times, i lost 30 to 50 pounds.
The borderline between a “normal” and an “overweight” BMI is 25. The borderline between an “overweight” and an “obese” BMI is 30. As a child, my weight was normal. As a teenager-young adult my body fluctuated between a 21 & 24 BMI. At age 20, after the birth of my first child, my body had a 36 BMI. Several years later it dropped to a 23 BMI. My body rose to a 43 BMI. Several years later it dropped to a 26 BMI. About 24 years ago, at age 47, My body reached a 52.9 BMI, and I had a RNY gastric bypass, with no removal of any intestine, which means that all the food I eat is still digested. Since that time:
24 yrs ago = 271 lbs = BMI 52.9 - weight-loss-surgery 21 yrs ago = 160 lbs = BMI 31.2 - low weight without dieting AFTER weight-loss-surgery 12 yrs ago = 190 lbs = BMI 37.1 - regained weight while dieting AFTER weight-loss-surgery 11 yrs ago = 115 lbs = BMI 22.5 - weight-loss after diet using computer food journal Past 11 yrs = maintenance (115-130 lbs) BMI 20.3 at my lowest; BMI 27.3, at my highest
The chart below is a helpful way to visualize my Maintenance Weight Range. Here are a few o...
If Ophra Can't Do it, Can it Be Done? - POSTED ON: Feb 22, 2016
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I've spent years trying to get skinny. Oprah's Weight Watchers ads convinced me to stop. by Caissie St. Onge Oprah's Weight Watchers commercials are everywhere. Last October Oprah bought a 10 percent stake in the company and joined its board. Now she's appearing in ads where she tells us that "inside every overweight woman is the woman she knows she can be."
If this were true, it would totally explain why overweight women are overweight; we have a whole extra woman inside of us! But I don't think it is true, because I believe that inside me is just more me. And I have my doubts that there's a better, happier, more acceptable woman inside of Oprah either. I love Oprah. Longtime Oprah lover over here. Since my tweens, I've admired how she's made celebrities seem like regular people and turned regular people into celebrities. I read the books her Book Club boosted. Hell, I'm wearing a bra she recommended on her "Favorite Things" episode in 2003. I think she has earned every ounce of success she enjoys, so I am glad for her that she made $70 million on the first day of her deal with Weight Watchers. That amount of money will be heavy, and if she binds it together, she can use it to weigh down stacks of her other money so none of it blows away when she opens a window in one of her many beautiful homes. But by the ninth or 10th time I heard Oprah talk about how we're gonna go on this weight loss journe...
Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong - POSTED ON: Feb 20, 2016
The women in this picture are different shapes and sizes, but all are professional athletes at the peak. It’s not a one-size-fits-all world. Every Diet works for Somebody, but not Every Diet works for Everybody. Also, the evidence seems to suggest that Some people can’t lose AND MAINTAIN WEIGHT-LOSS LONG-TERM on Any Diet. Although as Human Beings, all people share certain physical characteristics, we have genetic variations which make us different from each other. There are tall people and short people, males and females. People can have different hair and eye and skin colors. Our facial features differ. There are also natural differences in body types. Some people tend to be a pear-shape, - naturally carrying more weight in their bottom half. Others tend toward an apple-shape, naturally carrying more weight around the middle of their bodies. Some bodies are shaped like an hour-glass, with a larger top and bottom divided by a small middle. Some bodies are rather straight with bodies that tend to be the same size from top to bottom. Some are more triangular, having a smaller bottom half and carrying most of their weight in their upper half, chest, shoulders, arms. Some people are naturally more muscular. Some people have a stocky build, while others are naturally lean. All of these differences are based on differences in Genetics, and mostly people understand and accept these differences. So why is it so hard for our society to Understand, Believe, and Accept that …..just like those other differences,….. the bodies of some people naturally work to collect fat, while the bodies of other people naturally work to stay thin. And, that just like some people are supposed to have blue eyes and others to have brown eyes, some people are supposed to be fat, while other people are supposed to be thin. Yet, …as is stated in the compelling article posted below,… our Society’s belief is that a Fat Body is Evidence that a person is Doing Life Wrong.
Or Maybe Fat People Aren’t Doing It All Wrong .....excerpt from article.... by Ragen Chastain - danceswithfat Every day we are lied to about dieting, weight loss, weight, and health by people who profit from the lies. We are told that anyone who tries hard enough can lose weight and maintain that weight loss. This d...
Why I Don't Wear Makeup - POSTED ON: Feb 11, 2016
I very much like and agree with the concepts contained in the article below:
Why I Don’t Wear Makeup …. Excerpts from an article by Aabye-Gayle Fracis-Favilla
Our culture is subtly (and not so subtly) waging war against the body — a result of an unhealthy obsession with youth and perfection. We tell women that they’re beautiful and that they should love themselves. We tell little girls to have self-confidence and that they can be anything they want to be.
But then, and often with the same breath, we suggest they can be beautiful (or confident) only when they are not quite themselves. We sell women (both young and old) products to “fix” or “improve” their appearance — wrinkle removers, concealers, eyelash enhancers, and other colorful cover-ups.
The young want to look mature. The mature want to look young. No one really wants to look like herself. Everyone wants to look unflawed. Feminine façades have become the norm — what’s expected. Maybe you’re born with it. Maybe you bought it (or had your plastic surgeon inject it).
I want to avoid falling prey to a self-erasing mentality when I look at myself in the mirror.
Bodies are imperfect and asymmetrical. Bodies come in a myriad of sizes, shapes and colors. Bodies grow older. I don’t want to view aging as an adversary, which I have to fight or the imperfections of my face and form as mistakes I have to hide. That’s not a safe approach to loving myself well.
I wish I could rid our culture of cosmetic dependence. I wish I lived in a world where every woman was encouraged to be satisfied with her face instead of bombarded by messages offering ways to improve it or cover over it. I wish the majority of our society viewed makeup as an optional accessory as opposed to the required response to any perceived deficiency. I have enough insecurity that I’m working on. I don’t want to buy or apply more at the cosmetics counter. So I’ve made up my mind about makeup. At least for now,
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