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Thanks Noel. That’s how I’m feeling right now. I expect challenges, but I have so been there and done that with every diet known to mankind (or so it seems) that I don’t ever want to do it again. I just feel like this time I’m ready for this, as I don’t think I was in 1997. Wish I had been, but there it is.
I already know that if I eat enough real food, I don’t binge, because I’ve been doing that for the past couple of years. What has been missing from it all is listening to MY body - and letting her determine when, how much, and what I eat. That is new, refreshing, wonderful. Awe inspiring really.
I wish I could communicate the complete relief I feel…and yet greater responsibility as well. And the tenderness I feel toward my body and all that I’ve put her through and how valiantly she’s coped with it all. It makes me want to take the very best care of her I can.
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Good body! Good body!
I like to say I have a perfect body. I have all the right parts in all the right places and they all work. : )
Speaking of diets, I read one from Dr. Oz in this month’s Good Housekeeping. I just scanned it, but it had every meal planned out for every day, and it was all, “1 Tbsp this, 1/4 cup that…” and I was reminded of an earlier post by Swan where she said she even knew the calories counts of her spices. What bondage we’ve all been through.
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Isn’t it horrible? I was just watching the show Ruby on the style network. And they’re constantly talking about what horrible thing from her past is what’s keeping her trapped in overeating and extreme overweight and weight gain. Sigh. It made me want to cry because this poor woman is obviously just plain super famine sensitive and she’s been starving herself and binging for decades. I’m sure she’s probably got some unresolved issues from the past and needs healing, but then, who doesn’t. It’s like the assumption is the heavier you are the more broken you MUST be. Bleh.
Hey…I just read some of Hungry - which you mentioned in another post. Interesting. And had you heard that she’s gone on to lose more weight recently? She’s down to around a size 8. And people are ticked at her because she was such a voice for beauty at every size. But I think that if she’s continue to eat the way she had decided to eat (which is essentially NT), her body has just decided that it’s safe to let go of the fat. She’s basically said, “look, I’m being healthy and if I were going to stay heavier than this, I’d have to develop a different eating disorder in order to do it.” The part I found interesting is that in the book she’s just CONVINCED that some people are just fat and some people are naturally skinny. And it turns out that she wasn’t naturally as heavy as she thought. Maybe. She could be dieting. I sure hope not. I think if not, she’s kind of the poster child for NT.
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I don’t think she’s dieting. She gets really ticked if people Photoshop her to make her look thinner than she is. Not a typical response for a dieter!!
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I gotta tell you - I was happily taking my afternoon break, munching my roast beef on sourdough, with mayo, tomatoes, cheese and raw onion (yeah ok, working from home today) when I read the part about knowing the calorie count of spices! OMG! That made me laugh so hard! And today I can’t even tell you what percent milk I’ve got in my glass…
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Hey Beth,
What’s “hungry”? Is it a book?
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Hi Kelcy! Glad to see your “face”!! I was thinking of you this morning (as I was getting ready for homeschooling!)
“Hungry” is an autobiography by Crystal Renn. She was a runway and print model until she got tired of being anorexic and decided to eat and become a plus-size model. She doesn’t mention NT in the book, but she followed the principles. She went from 95 pounds at 5’9” and ended up a size 16. In the last couple of years, her weight has dropped and she’s now a size 8. And people are accusing her of dieting to get thin!! Anyway, it was a very interesting book to read. What that industry puts girls through should be criminal. Here’s a news story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/size-model-crystal-renn-sheds-pounds-fuels-criticism/story?id=12867609
Annual
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Hi Kelcy,
The book is kind of interesting. The tone was sometimes hard for me, and I skipped a bunch of it (mainly when she goes off on this or that that I didn’t really have interest in). What WAS fascinating was her determination as an anorexic that she just wasn’t going to live that way anymore. She started eating. And her life came back. And her career took off. And her love life, even when she was a plus size. So interesting. I don’t know how someone trapped in anorexia really has the courage to make a decision like that. Except…she just couldn’t stand to live half alive anymore.
Anyway, my local library had the book. You might find it interesting too. I got it because Annual mentioned it.
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Matty - Mar 21, 2011 03:56pm I gotta tell you - I was happily taking my afternoon break, munching my roast beef on sourdough, with mayo, tomatoes, cheese and raw onion (yeah ok, working from home today) when I read the part about knowing the calorie count of spices! OMG! That made me laugh so hard! And today I can’t even tell you what percent milk I’ve got in my glass…
Matty, it’s true! I searched all over the internet and had three pages worth printed out of the calorie content in spices. Cinnamon, nutmeg, oregano, chervil, tarragon,....It’s funny now, but I tell ya, back in the day, no calorie was gonna creep into my food without me knowing about it. And I had a haughty attitude about it too, “I bet no one else is doing THIS!”
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Wow - I so admire people with your strength of purpose! (Seriously!)
Although I’m tempted to make you a t-shirt that says “if you know how many calories are in cinnamon, you’ve been dieting too long!”
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