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Originally Posted by ~Christina
Ok ALL this information is fantastic !!!
My mind is spinning right now I’m thinking my meals should be ice cubes and tossed air LOL
There’s so many factors to consider when figuring out how to find the best way to lose weight when you factor in so many variables , we all have different ones of course
How was weight gained?
Emotional eating ?
Med causing extreme hunger?
Metabolic syndrome?
My chronic overall body inflammation
My physical limitations ?
My battle with anorexia throughout my life that can also cause long term damage to metabolism
My fatty liver
PsA that’s a chronic inflammation
Fibromyalgia doesn’t allow for deep restorative sleep, with out good sleep the body stays in fight or flight mode which keeps inflammation up.
My daughter went vegetarian 7-8 years ago ?? She does really well. She’s also very lazy most of the time , she will throw a can of beans and say green pepper and a apple in her backpack for lunch. She literally opens the can drains and rinses well and eats straight from the can, cuts the pepper in half and munches away. She is very consistent about getting enough protein, lots of tofu. I have tried it prepared many ways ..I just can’t. I asked how do you do it ? She said I don’t like that shyt at all but I need the protein lol
She truly eats to live , not live to eat. I get that mindset when I have fallen into the hell of anorexia, 3 years ago I was eating a 1/4 of a chicken breast twice a week and given 2 weeks to improve food intake and lab work or it was going to be a feeding tube.
So I have to be very careful with restricting regardless of what food choices I made , anorexia likes to jump out and cause chaos.
Just in the past week I have decided all breakfast food I hate, I no longer will eat eggs I’m not sure if I can eat cheese. Cantaloupe ? The smell makes me gag. Apples have a weird consistency . I want nothing to do with bread, walking down the bread aisle I gave up , the smell overwhelmed me. Oh boy just typing this bit.. yes this is how my anorexia starts. I just knock out whole food groups to start with. Yeah I need to try and take a big step back and consider things very carefully.
Yes I need to really consider all my options.
Great info here Thanks everyone  |
It is A LOT of information to take in. Having all of the details is important, but we have to keep in mind the big picture vision. The goal is overall better health and then you can break that down 8 ways to Sunday if you want. My analytical brain tends to get lost in the details, but I am also a strategist so that helps me to refocus.
For me, it helps if I focus on iterative change. I take things on in small bites. I implement something, allow myself to adjust to the change and then I move on to the next thing. I work in a few quick hit changes that add value while also notching away at longer term goals a tiny bit at a time. That way, I'm constantly improving. Also, only investing a bit at a time makes it easier to shift gears if you start down a path and realize it isn't adding the value that you thought it was. I make small commitments to myself that I can follow through on and remind myself that I will get to more eventually.
You don't need to nail any of this on the first try. People often feel like they have to solve for everything at once and then they fail because it is overwhelming and most plans do not address everything. Strategically speaking you can create a much more fruitful value chain by identifying your priorities and then selecting a few things to begin the process of change. From there, you just keep checking in, realigning with your goals and keep the overall forward momentum going even though you might take a step for two back along the way.
Also, I like to keep the 80/20 rule in mind. Imagine you listed out all of the things you need to shift in order to be healthier. In business there is a theory that holds that 80% of the benefits are found by transforming 20% of your opportunities. So essentially they are saying it is best to focus on the few things that have the most impact on your life and put the others to the side for the moment. In my experience I find that once I address that 20%, the other 80 kinda falls away and newer more relevant opportunities present themselves.
Christina, this isn't aimed at you, but your thoughts about this being so much information and knowing the issues you fave are multifaceted and have various root causes kick started my thoughts on this.