End Game...why it's NOT the END!! - Page 4 - ThinnerTimes

Zenomia · 11-06-2007, 08:50 AM

<--Exactly Lisa!! I love it when you can say what I think, better than I can think or write it. As you can see, I don't do either very well!!

I'll give ya an hour to ponder that mess of a sentence!

fishguy · 11-06-2007, 04:05 PM

My god it's like you read my mind ! I have lived in Newport Beach my whole life amongst the skinny beautiful perfect people. You're spot on with your observations except I think the official Orange County diet is half a chicken breast and a vodka martini.

Gina in NY · 11-06-2007, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Zenomia

Somepeople...like John, Gina...others who are Super Athletes now...have changed their entire persona to behave in that "thin" mind frame. If you can do it...KUDDOS to you all!!! I can't. I have tried. I struggle.

I struggle too! Every day folks. Sure, I'm in the gym, but it is still hard to eat right. I have just accepted that it is going to feel like I'm on a diet for the rest of my life. The only really fun days with food are when I do a 50 or 60 mile bike ride and burn like, 1400 or 1500 calories. Then I have to eat 2500 calories in a day. I enjoy it thoroughly! But days I don't work out, I only eat 1000 calories. I call the starvation days. (Thus, I work out a lot!)

So yea, I'm motivated to work my butt off, I'm in there every day, sometimes twice, but that doesn't make eating much easier. I mean, it makes everything easier because exercise alters my mood so greatly. Gives me strength of mind as well as body. If I don't work out for a few days, I start to feel sort of floppy and depressed. I need this now.

ANYWAY - I'm not some super human who suddenly acts thin - and by the way, I do still have 27 pounds to go!! Many many people here have hit goal and some did so in a year! I'm not there. I may be able to get to goal in 2 years, but it is hell sometimes.

I am totally convinced, there is no normal. Not for me. Normal is eating all I want, whenever I want, as much as I want and there is only one place that leads - MO! So it will always feel like a diet - I will always watch - I will always keep tabs on how many calories I've burned so I know how much I can eat. This is the way it is now - and frankly - it is MUCH better. Better to struggle with food as an overweight person than as a super morbidly obese person. Struggling 123 pounds down is MUCH better. Struggling to ride 50 miles is MUCH better than struggling to walk up a flight of steps - so it is a trade off for me Zen. I prefer this struggle but I never expected it to stop. I never was told I would just eat and not worry about it. I was told quite the opposite from day one.