I watched that part and couldn’t help thinking about what soon follows a famine, and it looks like she’s putting herself in a very severe one, with both the severe calorie restriction and the intensity of her daily exercising.  Didn’t she say, as one point during their practice session, that she had probably only eaten 150 calories so far that day?  The way she just blurted that number out makes me think she has all the calories for every food memorized like I did when I was in “food jail.”  I can almost see how this sad story will play out.  It will be something like this: she will relish in her thinner body for awhile, then start feasting and gaining, and then blame the gain on something emotional in her life, such as being out of the limelight when the show is over, or whatever.  Kirstie is training her body to need to be fat.

I remember hearing about the thousands upon thousands of calories Michael Phelps has to consume when training for the Olympics. Michael has trained his body to need to be thin.

Excellent, excellent point with Mr. Phelps.

A recent article in USAToday said Maks told her to eat 2000 calories a day, and that she was going to do that while “in training.” She said she is now “a stretchy size 4-6” and she wants to get to a “real” size 4 and then she’s “done.” I feel for her, considering the inevitable to come.

Size 4?  The real trouble here is that she feels she even has to talk about what size she is or how many calories she eats.  That just doesn’t need to be anyone else’s business.

Such fascinating case studies!  I find it amazing that now we know the principles of adaptive weight gain/loss, examples are EVERYWHERE!  In celebrities, in our friends and family.  Do you ladies find that as well? Every day I read something or observe something that validates the principles… unlike when I was starving myself and exceptions/inconsistencies were everywhere and always contradicting my ideology of eat-less-exercise-more.

It gives me enormous hope that this IS the truth…and those of us who are feeling so round at present WILL be naturally thin.

It’s true.  Case studies are everywhere.  I am feeling like the poster child myself at the moment. :)  I am also back in my “What if this works for everybody else and not ME?!” stage.  Please, someone tell me that I will not always want/need to eat this much food!  I keep thinking, “Maybe I do have an eating disorder.”  ...I’m not “binging” in the traditional sense, but it still takes a lot of food to get to full.  And several times a day.  Is it possible that I DO have an eating disorder?  That my brain chemistry or something is just all wrong?  I have read a LOT of books in my quest to fix this…Sometimes NT just feels too simple.

Still and all…I just keep eating.  I see no way to go back to restricting at this point.  I know it won’t work.  And I never, ever want to go through the pain of gaining back everything I just lost like poor Kirstie is bound to.  Or at least, not again AFTER this time.

Beth, I am still amazed at the amount of food I have to eat,  and I’m naturally thin.  This is the amount my body requires to stay this thin!

Also, remember the need that your body has to be reassured that “the famine is over.”  It won’t release any weight until it is certain the famine is over.  So don’t “keep it wondering” about that.

All I need to hear is a few phrases from a celebrity to let me know if they are truly naturally thin, or maintaining their weight through dieting.  For an example, I once heard Heidi Montag say she’s addicted to sugar——dead give away.

Ellen Pompeo (from Grey’s Anatomy) said she has to eat 4,000 kcals a day to keep up with the energy demands of 14 hour days on the set.  Her co-stars laughed at rumors she is anorexic, because she stuffs her face between takes!  Another dead give away… a natural super thin!

I just had my elderly aunt out clothes shopping.  She has been ill for a while and lost a lot of weight.  Her old size 12s just hang on her.  She’s shorter than I am, I’d say she’s 5’4”, and at her last Dr visit was down to 125 pounds.  She is very uncomfortable about looking bony, but nevertheless wanted some clothes that actually fit her.  The clothing she purchased today was size 4.  I don’t know what stores Kirstie shops in for her “stretchy 4s,” but at 5’8”, Kirstie is nowhere, and I mean absolutely nowhere, near as small as my dear old aunt, who is practically mortified by being so thin.  It must validate Kirstie’s worthiness by claiming to be this size.

This might be a little bit off the subject, but I am re-reading BOOFJ right now and have found a WONDERFUL bit of info from Jean.  It’s on page 77, the last paragraph of Chapter 3.

If it is re-read, I think it will help some questions a few of us have been having lately.

I’ts funny, I thought the same thing about Kristie “claiming” she’s a size 4-6, I’m wondering which store she is shopping at—-possibly one on Denial Street?

Have a good one ladies!

Jean says we should buy clothes that fit and then break out a Sharpie and change the size to say whatever we want it to say.  Maybe Kirstie’s doing that!

Hey Shanshan, can you summarize the info on page 77?  I don’t have that book.  I’d like to get it but I am so desperately broke right now that I just can’t do it.

Hi Beth,

I’ll be glad to type the entire passage for you tomorrow.  It will be in the morning or at lunch.

And by the way, you can get the book at a very reasonable price on Amazon.  I got a nice copy for 99 cents believe it or not!  So if you know someone who has free shipping through Amazon, that might be the way to go.

:)

Hey Beth!

I have an extra copy I would be happy to send to you.  I’m going to check with the webmaster to see how to email you directly and get your address.

: )

Hi Beth, this is for you.  From Jean’s book, BOOFJ, page 77.

****Who can recover from eating disorders?

The program coming up in the next chapters will be helpful and even healing for many people who are searching for answers to their eating problems.  But this path for healing won’t work for some people, and I’ll tell you shy.  It’s too hard for a while, and that while is too long for some.  Some people aren’t willing to work that hard, not even for relief from the torture of food jail.  Others are too afraid of letting go, of trusting anyone or anything besides themselves.  But hard work and trust are things that getting free requires, along with discipline and perseverance.  Some people can’t or won’t exercise the discipline it takes and others lack the ability to tolerate the delay in gratification.  This is not a quick and easy plan for relief from eating problems.  There is no such thing.  This strategy requires considerable maturity, I have found, and some people are not willing to grow up that much.

What about you?  Are you ready to work?  Are you willing to let go?  Then roll up your sleeves and say a prayer, because we’re about to take on the fiend that’s been running your life.  And we’re going to beat it and get you set free from food jail forever.****

I think when you get this book and read (re-read, re-read, etc.) it will help a lot. 

Today I’m thinking: so what if I’m fat?!  The world is not going to end, and really, nobody cares if I’m overweight, just me.  So, I’m going to get “over myself” and buy bigger clothes (I find I feel WORSE on the days my clothes are too tight) and get on with my life!!

Make it a great day.

:)