http://colormefit.paradygma.com Thoughts and realizations on the journey to weight loss Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:09:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What, you thought you'd be rid of me so easily? I thought so as well. But it seems I still have a few things to gab about, after all. I decided to focus on health/fitness goals only. I'm still sticking to my "no counting calories" policy (and hoping that soon will ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/because-walking-is-just-that-great I have decided to seriously tune down the amount of weight loss-related forums and blogs I read. Not because I don't care at all. Not because I'm planning on denying my meager support to anyone (as if it was that useful to start with, haha). Simply because I feel that ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/frustration (I wanted to write a post about this before, but my host seemingly deleted some files for this blog out of the blue, and when I finally had the opportunity to fix them, it was a little too late too blog. So here it comes now.) I should probably have ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/official-excuse-bummer Or so I think, of course, because I know plenty of people who would disagree with me. This all stems from my general feeling of being fed-up with people's commentaries about my meals. Especially at work, where we all eat together and everybody gets to analyze what the neighbour is eating, ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/im-not-a-low-fat-freak-its-just-that-it-tastes-better It took me more than one week to come back to this blog, but since I've done much worse in the past, I probably don't need to apologize. Besides, I needed the time away. I also needed time, a lot of time, to work on an oral presentation that I ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/the-slings-and-arrows-of-outrageous-fortune I'm going to start writing this post by being straightforward: the 'stop restricting' way is supposed to be paved with good realizations, but also with bumps. Yesterday, I ran into one of these bumps. Today, I didn't. Saturday, Friday, Thursday, I didn't either. I knew and had already accepted that ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/somehow-it-hurts I'm still not done with my binging problem, but in the past days, I took some time to reflect in depth about all of this. In a way, it was easy: I'm on sick leave for the week, so I had lots of time on my hands, and a real ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/diet-mentality I always have that stupid feeling that people think ill of me about that... like, "well, she's fat, she must eat a lot, no wonder she's such a wimp about not eating her oh-so-holy-breakfast first thing in the morning". I caught myself writing this in a post on the 3FC forum ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/fat-thinking-again I've been mulling over this thought for the past days, and am wondering if I'm just kidding myself, or if this could actually be of help for the time being. I haven't reached a point when I weigh compulsively every day (once a week is fine enough), but I kind of ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/shall-i-just-get-rid-of-the-scale Everybody in our corner of the blogosphere knows that silence means falling off the wagon, and I decided that I'd still go on blogging even when things aren't all rosy and positive. Well, alright, don't expect me to blog about my bingeing problems every day either, because it'd be very ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/coping-mechanisms I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or because I've made it so that my body is now used to clean foods instead of junk all the time. No matter what, it is a verified fact that when I'm eating well and in sensible quantities, I sleep well ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/well-being When I think of it some more, I realize that my problem with food is twofold, in a much contradictory way: 1) I like food too much. 2) I don't care about food. And this might be the very core of all this crap. 1) I like food too much: I don't think I ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/relationship-with-food Usually, I don't dwell about it here, because it is not the purpose of this blog, but I also happen to suffer from a mild form of Tourette's. Which has seemingly nothing to do with weight loss. Or had. Because while biking home yesterday night after having gone to the ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/an-odd-comparison-maybe Is it worth it? All these sacrifices, giving up on foods we like, forcing ourselves to exercise, and everything else--is it really worth it? I had to answer to such a question a few weeks ago. In a nutshell, my answer was: yes, it IS worth it. Granted, it's not easy every ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/is-it-worth-it I'll probably come down as snotty or old-fashioned about that, but it needs to be said: I don't like nor do I trust these things. You know what they are, I'm sure. Tons of ads pop in our faces on the web, in magazines and on TV about the "new revolutionary ... http://colormefit.paradygma.com/archives/revolutionary-exercise-gizmos