Why does it have to be so hard?
I walked past the bakery today and noticed pumpkin cheesecake. Um…just kill me. Take a knife, stab me, beat me to a pulp with a baseball bat, chop me into little bits, then put me in the meat grinder to be made into burgers.
Seriously~it’s torture.
I wanted it. I wanted it bad. And no, I can’t have it, because I have no self control around it. I’ve been cursed with a sweet tooth. If I knew which one it was I’d yank it out!
I have to deprive myself of 3,500 calories just to lose one pound. UGH… It’s all fun and games until your stomach mushrooms like an atomic bomb and your jeans don’t fit.
It’s coming off so slowly. I know…I know, one to two pounds a week is a healthy way to take it off, but it’s going so slow I feel like I’m a hippopotamus time traveller going backward.
We live in a society where we are used to having instant results. That’s not going to happen. It could take me over a year to get to the weight I want to be. Then maintaining it is a whole other nightmare.
Yes, it’s a nightmare. Why? Because I don’t want to be freakin’ fat. Ha ha! I don’t want to gain it back. I’ve heard so many failure stories and I don’t want to add myself to that list of losers. And it’s not the good kind of loser.
I realise I should be focusing on my accomplishment of losing forty-two pounds. I should also be proud of myself for having some self control around the pumpkin cheesecake.
I just have to glance at a carb and I start to look like I belong in a Jurassic theme park. High fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oil and bleached white flour seems to be in everything.
I feel a disconnect. I love food but I also fucking resent it at the same time.
I feel like a woman in labour and food is my husband. I’m crushing his hand and screaming, “YOU DID THIS TO ME!”
I wonder if I will ever have a good relationship with food or if I’ll always be headed to divorce court?
I know I can’t be the only one who feels this way.
~GW
The Grocery Whisperer 
You are so not alone…just this a.m. I thought, “Well…maybe I will never reach my goal by Nov. 1…which is 125 pounds.” But then I think I have only been doing this for less than a year…and let’s me honest. It took many months and years to gain this weight.
Be patient. I personally don’t believe in a lot of denial…could you not just eat a small portion? A sliver? A morsel…perhaps?
Good luck, kiddo. We’ll make it.
Tina
P.S. Do you know what 42 pounds equal??? Over 10 4# bags of sugar!! You’re doing just great…plus you’re writing is really good!!
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Thanks, Tina. I don’t think I could eat a small portion. I have no self control when it comes to cake. lol. I do eat a bit of dark chocolate, I don’t totally deprive myself. I know it took many years and lots of depressive bouts to gain the weight, especially when my parents and best friend died. It was rough. Really rough. Thanks for the compliment about my writing, it means a lot. xo
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My friends couldn’t care less either. But I care about my health. I don’t want to be sick, nor do I want to go through the last years of my life incapacitated like my parents did because of their dietary choices.
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You can spend the last years of your life healthy, or you can spend them being ill. I guess it’s the choice everyone has to make.
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HI. 😀
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A high-carb post loaded with calories galore; funny cartoons; and much more!
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lol…yeah, I like cartoons. hahaha.
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I have one slice of chocolate cheese cake in the frig with the end nibbled off. It has been 4 days. I am practising resistance and so relate to your love/hate war with food.
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That would kill me. If I knew it was there in the fridge I would obsess about it in my mind until it was in my mouth. lol
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Don’t visit my blog’s ‘About’ page: You’ll only hate me.
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Why is that?
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I never had to battle my weight. Quite the reverse in fact. I was a skinny runt for years – and never became plump. Well, not so far anyway. There’s still time, I guess.
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Skinny doesn’t = healthy. You still have to eat well. I didn’t gain weight either, I was always super skinny until my mother and my best friend died. That did me in.
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You’re right about skinny not being healthy: much to my doctor’s surprise I developed diabetes!
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Unfortunately, you are what you eat. Processed junk food = disease.
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That’s right.
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I hope you can reach and maintain a healthy weight. However, there are better words than dieting — even successful dieting. Courage is one. Endurance is another. Faith and compassion are two more. Whether or not chronic dieters regain the weight they have so desperately struggled to lose, they are human beings. No one is a “loser” in the sense that you have applied the term. That idea only enforces that self-hatred taht so often leads to over-eating. Wishing you well, A. ❤
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Hi, Anna. I don’t pussyfoot around the words to make myself feel better. The fact of the matter is that I needed to stop eating junk because my blood pressure was getting high and I don’t want to have a heart attack or stroke. I have no self hatred at all. I had to face reality and make a choice to change my eating habits, because I don’t want to be sick or diseased. I am talking about a change of diet, not dieting. They are two different things. I just make better choices. I know I will succeed because I am determined to have a better life than my parents did.
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