as I may have mentioned earlier, and one of the things that has struck me is how people who have been fat most of their lives often get brainwashed as to how much people in general actually eat, or how much they exercise.
That's struck me, when reading various forums.
My maintenance calories are 1800ish a day, so when I do diet, I eat between 1100 and 1400 calories a day, with one day a week where I can eat whatever I want. But I don't ever diet for more than 8 weeks at a time, and I often start tapering the amount up so that over a 6-8 week period, I start out at the lowest number per day, and end up back at my maintenance calories. This way I'm likely to continue eating an appropriate amount when the regime is over.
The thing that really troubles me is the idea of people consistently eating less than they need, for really long periods of time, as that will mean they are operating at less than full capacity. Dieting makes me tired and sometimes grouchy and sometimes seems to make my immune system less effective. In short, a feeling of been run down.
The other thing that worries me are people's idea of normal, as opposed to desired size an weight. A friend recently wrote about going to look at wedding dresses, where all the samples were size 10s. But most women who are a healthy size and weight would likely fall into the 12-16 end of the dress size spectrum. And yet many fashion lines won't make clothes in sized bigger than 12, and often it's hard to find 14 in department stores, because they get the same number of each size, and those will go quickly.
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That's struck me, when reading various forums.
My maintenance calories are 1800ish a day, so when I do diet, I eat between 1100 and 1400 calories a day, with one day a week where I can eat whatever I want. But I don't ever diet for more than 8 weeks at a time, and I often start tapering the amount up so that over a 6-8 week period, I start out at the lowest number per day, and end up back at my maintenance calories. This way I'm likely to continue eating an appropriate amount when the regime is over.
The thing that really troubles me is the idea of people consistently eating less than they need, for really long periods of time, as that will mean they are operating at less than full capacity. Dieting makes me tired and sometimes grouchy and sometimes seems to make my immune system less effective. In short, a feeling of been run down.
The other thing that worries me are people's idea of normal, as opposed to desired size an weight. A friend recently wrote about going to look at wedding dresses, where all the samples were size 10s. But most women who are a healthy size and weight would likely fall into the 12-16 end of the dress size spectrum. And yet many fashion lines won't make clothes in sized bigger than 12, and often it's hard to find 14 in department stores, because they get the same number of each size, and those will go quickly.