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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 29, 2019 23:24:40 GMT
Wednesday, 10/30
BBR Chapter 3
How Thin People Think
Characteristics that make dieting difficult:
#1: You confuse hunger with the desire to eat
#2: You have a low tolerance for hunger and cravings
#3: You like feeling full
#4: You fool yourself about how much you eat
#5: You comfort yourself with food
#6: You feel helpless and hopeless when you gain weight
#7: You focus on issues of unfairness
#8: You stop dieting once you lose weight
Which ones of these characteristics do you have?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 29, 2019 23:26:58 GMT
BBR Chapter 3
How Thin People Think
Characteristics that make dieting difficult:
#1: You confuse hunger with the desire to eat – I don’t do this anymore, but I’ll eat even though I know it is only a desire to eat.
#2: You have a low tolerance for hunger and cravings – I have a low tolerance for hunger. I manage cravings by keeping sweets out of the house.
#3: You like feeling full – I’ve gotten use to not feeling full. I accept it because I know now how much I need to eat.
#4: You fool yourself about how much you eat – I do this. For some reason there are times I think that calories don’t count.
#5: You comfort yourself with food – I do this a little.
#6: You feel helpless and hopeless when you gain weight – Like it or not I do feel this way even though I’ve had years of success and know what to do.
#7: You focus on issues of unfairness – Don’t do this.
#8: You stop dieting once you lose weight – Didn’t do this this time.
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Post by ladymajky on Oct 30, 2019 0:21:08 GMT
Characteristics that make dieting difficult:
#1: You confuse hunger with the desire to eat
-- Oh yes. Tired, thirsty, bored, restless, seeing food on TV, seeing other people eating food -- all of this becomes a desire to eat.
#2: You have a low tolerance for hunger and cravings
-- When I detect the slightest edge of hunger, there I am in the kitchen making it go away.
#3: You like feeling full
-- Fortunately, this does not happen for me. I hate the bloaty, gassy feeling of being full.
#4: You fool yourself about how much you eat
-- Big time. Although I track, I don't like to track the foods I know I shouldn't eat. So they never get logged. They just get forgotten, and dis-remembered.
#5: You comfort yourself with food
-- Not really. I can see this coming, and talk myself out of it.
#6: You feel helpless and hopeless when you gain weight
-- Yes. I have been thinking I should quit weighing daily and go back to the once-a-week official WW weigh-in. Otherwise I spend too much time hating myself.
#7: You focus on issues of unfairness
-- No. This has not been an issue for me.
#8: You stop dieting once you lose weight
-- I haven't stopped dieting since 1972 when I was trying to get down to the target weight for enlisting in the Air Force. I have been dieting continuously since then (47 years). I just haven't been very successful at it.
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Post by lani on Oct 30, 2019 15:37:22 GMT
The only one I still have is liking to feel full. Although my definition of full is definitely not stuffed, bloated and gassy. I always stop eating well before I am full, except on my treat days of Wednesday lunch and Friday dinner. So when I say "full" I guess I mean comfortably full. P.S. They're starting a Beck "speed review" over on the GDT. Man, that's a lot of reviews I'm following.  I feel like I'm in a perma-Beck-review. |
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Post by irisinnia on Oct 30, 2019 20:20:58 GMT
Let's see how I'm doing!
#1: You confuse hunger with the desire to eat
*Gasp* I'm cured!
#2: You have a low tolerance for hunger and cravings
Low tolerance for cravings. I'm a hunger tolerating ninja! - because I do the practice hunger tolerance thing every single review, I swear by it
#3: You like feeling full
Yes Please! I've driven it down to one meal a day, and I'll try to make it low or zero point, like salad, fruit salad, or zero point soup. Warm things like any soup and fat free hot chocolate with water will give me that sensation as well. Or drinking water in the summer.
#4: You fool yourself about how much you eat
Yup, but that's why I have to track EVERYTHING.
#5: You comfort yourself with food
This is the absolute worst one! I'm so bad at wanting to reward/comfort/pitty myself with food.
#6: You feel helpless and hopeless when you gain weight
A little bit. It's hard, I need some successes under my belt to feel confident again.
#7: You focus on issues of unfairness
Not anymore. Asking skinny people probing questions as made me understand that even if they look like they're eating with abandon in public, they may be skipping meals at home.
#8: You stop dieting once you lose weight
Never been to goal. Soon I hope.
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I feel like I'm in a perma-Beck-review.