[Lexicon78]

I don't usually come in here but I'm sick of people complaining about the way I eat. I'm about 215-220 lbs. I eat very little, but my consumption of Mountain Dew is pretty high. I've tried quitting it before but couldn't lose any weight so I went back on the Dew. Anyways, here's my dilemma.

Everyone I talk to...or who sees me eat...complains about the amount of food I eat. No, I don't eat a lot at all. I can only eat enough to where I no longer feel hungry. I can't eat until I'm full. If I eat past that point of no longer being hungry, I get very sick to my stomach. But people are still complaining about how I'm eating. I get hungry 2 hours later, but at least I'm eating, right? I rarely have an appetite at all, but I still don't lose any weight. Probably because during these colder months I don't exercise at all. I don't like the cold.

Anyways, everyone's always pressuring me to eat more. I don't like that. People are constantly trying to get me to eat...shoving food in front of my face...it's not like I don't eat.

I just am so sick and tired about being bugged about food. I'm fat enough!

[Rhapsody]

I think all in all most people mean well.... they are just looking at the entire picture from their side of the fence and not from your view.


LoVe,
Rhapsody -

[JustBen]

Yeah, I know how you feel, Lexi. I don't eat vegetables, and people are constantly hassling me about it. I know they mean well, but sometimes I just want to eat in peace. About the Dew, have you tried Diet Mountain Dew? It doesn't taste bad for a diet soda, and it's got all the caffeine.

[funnygirl]

Hi

People are always trying to make me eat, as I tend to be a secret eater and they think I'm starving, which I am not. My mother says things like, "this needs eating up, that needs finishing up," etc etc. My usual reply is that "I'm not a trash can, eat it up yourself or throw it away". Then she replies, "Oh, we can't waste it, there are children starving in Africa...." or words to that effect. How it will help the kids in Africa if I eat up the leftovers is beyond my comprehension.

At work, my fellow teachers and the students are always waving sweets, biscuits and chocolates under my nose, trying to tempt me, and sometimes inviting me to lunch or dinner, just to see me eat.

It is all very irritating, I must say. Why are they so interested in my eating habits? It's a mystery. It's not as if I'm thin - I'm a normal size.

I do sympathise. People should mind their own business. It's a form of abuse, IMHO.

FG

Suggestion with the mountain dew intake mix it with a berry or punch type fruit jucie. It gives it a "party punch" type taste and keeps the body hydrated (caffien and carbination causes dehydration which leads to the body thinking it needs to store intake as fat reserves because it is losing water too fast) and for every glass or bottle of mountain dew drink a glass or bottle of water. I lost 15 pounds in two months just by making that change.

Eating small amounts of food is great - as long as you are eating more than once a day. Most physicians recommend smaller but more frequent meals for approved diet plans. Check with your physician and he can give you an approved diet plan and work with you to find the correct intake and weight loss plan for you and then when people start in on you all you need to say is you prefer not to get well intended advice from others because you are following a spcial diet plan set up by your physician. I have even gone so far as to give out my doctors number and told the annoying person (DHS caseworker) feel free to call him with any of her complaints about my eating 9 times a day. (she felt I should be on a vegitarian / three meals, no soda, sweets or fats type diet well, which she did and my doctor basically told her to go fly a kite in official termonology)

[(JD)]

IDK whether you eat too much or not, I'm not there.. .but I think the soda is a problem. Someone ran a special recently on the addicting effects of soda, especially diet soda.. the chemicals etc...and how the sugar is so bad for us (it's so many tablespoonsful!) I have a friend who drinks diet soda and is very heavy... she will not give up her soda...but she changes how she eats, what she eats, when she eats but keeps the soda..and the weight. I think there must be a connection.

If others think you eat too much, maybe you are and don't feel like it... they can be wrong, yes... try eating the same amounts but eat them divided up into someting every 2 hours instead, see if that keeps you satiated? Good wishes with this. (BTW stress/cortisol is a big factor in weight, too. ) TC