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actually, my family and friends didn't
buy me food and stuff. But when I had lost 14 pounds and my best friend found
out how much I loss..she started about how I don't need to lose anymore. Then
she started with "I can't believe you need to lose X amount of weight. You don't
look overweight, blah, blah.... you're going to look anorexic, blah,
blah.."
It started to really grate my nerves
along with her downing of low carb when she readily admits she knows nothing
about it.
But it's easy for a 110 pound little waif
to make such comments..LOL
Although for the first time in our
friendship, she actually weighs more than me. She is 6 months PG. The other 2
times she was PG I was also PG at the same time, so I still weighed
more..LOL
~*~*Bethany*~*~
The Birds are OUT and
First Never Looked So Sweet!
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:10
PM
Subject: [Sndbox] Beware! The No. 1 Diet
Saboteur
Beware! The No. 1 Diet Saboteur
If you're trying to lose weight, the one thing that is most likely to
derail your best diet plan is...your family and close friends. Don't believe
it? Test it. Go on a diet. Lose a few pounds. Brag a little. And then see what
happens. Chances are, you'll find you're the recipient of fattening food
gifts. Your spouse may buy you a candy bar at the movies or your co-worker
will offer you cookies when the afternoon munchies hit. They aren't doing this
to be mean or vindictive. They probably aren't even conscious of it. But what
they are doing is sabotaging your weight loss success.
"I've seen it happen so many times to my weight loss patients that when
they come in and confess they fell off the wagon, I'm ready with my ritual
response: 'Who did this to you?'" Colleen Pierre, a registered dietician and
an associate professor of aging, nutrition, and fitness at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Md., wrote in an article published by Rodale Press.
"They're always shocked to think that someone else may have had a hand in
their weight loss failure. Diet saboteurs. They're everywhere." Pierre says
that the problem can be defined in one word: Change. A diet creates big
changes in anyone's life. These are changes welcomed by the dieter. But
friends and family aren't in the same mode of change. Be aware that diet
sabotage is not done purposefully and maliciously. It's unconscious.
You can fight the sabotage by understanding why it happens. Pierre
offers these reasons:
--They feel guilty.
--They don't
understand.
--They miss the old you.
What you need to do is get them on
your side. Numerous studies have proven that when your social network of
family and friends supports your diet, it has a positive influence on the
results. New York City nutritionist Shira Isenberg, R.D. told syndicated
health columnist Charles Stuart Platkin that family and friends bring "an
increase in self-confidence by validating the individual's choice to lose
weight, a reduction in overall stress, and increased attention to achieving
the overall goal." And they do it without offering you a cookie.
Charles
Mims
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