On this page the following entries were made in the “Dialogue” category.
Earlier on, I was on the phone with my mother. At some point, we started talking healthy foods and weight loss, and when I said that I seriously needed to get back on track because i’ve been slacking these past weeks, she asked me “ah, so you want to lose even more?”, as if she [...]
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I thought about writing this entry after a very insightful conversation I recently took part in on a Fench forum related to overweight and obesity. The topic of the conversation was “how do we perceive ourselves in our dreams”, and it got many, many varied answers.
There were those who’d see themselves as they were before, [...]
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I’m sitting in front of my laptop, trying to focus on my work. It’s been a good two hours that I’ve been battling almost every minute with a stupid craving for bretzels and chocolate buns, and I swear, the damn desire won’t go away.
When I say I’m thinking of it so often, I’m really not [...]
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Yesterday, while sorting pictures that I hadn’t burnt on CD yet, I found a stash of photos taken in August 2003. If I hadn’t been already sitting, I think I’d have fell. See, usually I almost never have any pictures of me taken, mostly because I’m the one who takes them, and because I’m not [...]
Continue reading “Perception of the Self” »
Or should I write “collapse”, because I have the feeling that this word is more appropriate for once.
So yeah, I know I’ve written about how lapsing isn’t the end of it all, that it’s not a reason to give up, blah-de-blah. I know it’s the truth, and I know I’m not giving up, but these [...]
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I entered the café—a very small, cozy place, that I used to go to regularly last year. A few people were there already, minding their own businesses, and I approached the counter to order, when suddenly it hit me. The feeling of shame. The feeling of shame at being seen by strangers eating a croissant in a public place.
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Something that crossed my mind, not so long ago, as I was idly discussing sports matter with my boyfriend (he likes playing squash, I do too, things are perfect with this): it may just be me, but I have a feeling that when it comes to weight loss, men and women often don’t have the same approach at all.
Continue reading “Different Perceptions?” »
There’s this ad currently running on French TV channels, for Amora’s “light products”. It features a kid eating some kind of big burger and about to put ketchup on it, when his mother gets out some Amora super-duper light-fat ketchup and, arguing that there’s twice less fat in it… whips twice more of the awful thing on the burger. The ad ends by showing us that all the family is obese, save for the slim boy. Slim because of Amora’s light sauces, of course.
Continue reading “Twice Less Fat, But Twice The Amount” »
Alright. I’m not a saint, I’m not eating perfectly well every single day, I do have my moments of weaknesses when I still give in (much to my dismay) to cravings. However, generally speaking, it’s a fact that my lifestyle has improved tremendously compared to what it used to be when I wasn’t taking care of my health at all… and one very good thing is that the consequences of this don’t “only” appear in the weight loss itself. All in all, this is pretty much encouraging on many accounts!
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Even though weight loss as well as maintenance tend to be very hard battles, at least at times… even though being heavy can so easily turn into a bane of constant health problems here and there… can we say that, in a way, we overweight people may be luckier than the always-thin people regarding health matters - provided, of course, that we don’t close our eyes on the signals?
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