Okay Jimmy you got me going...
What a surprise. Woke up and made my way to the pc to retrieve this newsbit I remembered about more people being obese than hungry these days... just to check who said that and why... and find myself creating a blog to participate in the 30/30 weight challenge.
Now, thanks Jimmy, your name sounds familiar... I certainly have come across your blog before when inquiring about low carb. But who would have thought I'd actually get interactive with you? Funny how all paths seem to lead back to this way of eating that I discovered years ago, that worked well for me and that I left again, for some unfathomable reasons, only to regret this straying off. So maybe this is the moment to jump the bandwagon again. Will that mean to get out my scales again? To keep track of gains and losses? Maybe that, and surely more than that. I had started a French blog because I see eating, thinking and living according to my dreams as so intertwined that I wanted to keep track of them all, but this way to be accountable is even better. Thanks Jimmy for getting me started again - hope to get to know you better and have time to read through your blog in the days and weeks to come!
Some words about me, just for the record: I'll soon turn 43, am married to a great Dutch guy and have four wonderful children between 9 and 14, live currently in France (I'm Swiss and German) and am interested in a whole heap of things, among which are buying, reading and translating books, publishing newsletters, homeschooling my children, learning languages, crafts and occupations, traveling, noting down my projects, knowing more about philosophy and chemistry which both are equally fundamental to a meaningful life (among others)... and a lot of other things.
Although many people tell me that I'm not overweight and just should keep my mouth shut, I have been "feeling fat" since I realized I was a chubby child... apparently different from the others. From that resulted a history of trying whatever diet was available, with the most tangible result being an increased feeling of frustration and a deep insecurity about myself. Who am I, how do I define myself, what's the important thng - how I look or how I think? And of course - whom can I trust to tell me what's right for me? Can I trust in anybody, or do they all have a more or less hidden interest and just use me as a means, not as an end? Apparently thinking for myself was a crucial part in making peace with my body... so some day I set out to find about more on low carb plans. To my big surprise I saw that not only did it make me skinnier - the wonderful thing was that it blew away the foggy feeling that had been so familiar, the tiredness and irritability. We went camping in the French region of Dordogne the summer I started low carb (must have been 2002), and I fondly remember this vacation of being the most gourmet vacation I ever had... even with the very limited facilities of living in a small tent with 6 people during two weeks. I feasted on goose liver and French cheese, enjoyed salads of all kinds, created wonderful breakfasts from eggs and tomatoes, went out to restaurants and leaving them feeling wonderfully satiated... in short, a breeze!
So, you will ask (and I have asked that one, too), what happened? If this was so great, why did you change? The answer is easy... I just went back to my habitual life one day at a time. Little things slipped in, the habits were still too engrained in a way, and maybe above all, I felt that somehow, magically, things would just stay like that because I willed them to be. Of course this did not work. I learned that mistakes have their place in life, too, especially if you count them as experience and try to learn from them (and not make the same mistake twice, as there are so many of them around). I learned a lot about how body and mind work together, about psychological approaches to weight issues, I got active in various internet communities, resolved several important issues from my past, and now am ready to get serious about low carb again. I feel hat the roadblocks have been removed, my part of the kitchen cabinet has been cleared from stuf I do not need, and I'm motivated because I remember how I used to feel. Energized, vital, alive, powerful. I have just come back from another vacation that gave me lots of inspiration and projects for the future, and I feel like that again - full of energy, aware of the fact that there's a lot of new things I can do and new experiences, and I want to combine this with being physically energetic by keeping useless or even harmful stuff out of my body.
So, Jimmy, you really got me going. Thanks! I'm looking forward to this challenge and realize that there's only one person I can do this for: myself!
Oh, another thing I forgot: stats...
age: 42 years, 11 months, 15 days
height: 1 m 63, which must be 5.3 feet
current weight: 66 kg which is 145.5 pounds
Okay, folks, before anyone tells me that losing 30 pounds is harmful for my health, let me tell you this: I'm convinced that my body has her set point and knows best what suits her. So... I'm not "set" on any numeric goal to reach with lots of sweat (and lots of frustration in casse of failure) but will take this as the starting point to let my body regulate this herself. To help with this, I'll watch what I eat. The rest is open...
Now, thanks Jimmy, your name sounds familiar... I certainly have come across your blog before when inquiring about low carb. But who would have thought I'd actually get interactive with you? Funny how all paths seem to lead back to this way of eating that I discovered years ago, that worked well for me and that I left again, for some unfathomable reasons, only to regret this straying off. So maybe this is the moment to jump the bandwagon again. Will that mean to get out my scales again? To keep track of gains and losses? Maybe that, and surely more than that. I had started a French blog because I see eating, thinking and living according to my dreams as so intertwined that I wanted to keep track of them all, but this way to be accountable is even better. Thanks Jimmy for getting me started again - hope to get to know you better and have time to read through your blog in the days and weeks to come!
Some words about me, just for the record: I'll soon turn 43, am married to a great Dutch guy and have four wonderful children between 9 and 14, live currently in France (I'm Swiss and German) and am interested in a whole heap of things, among which are buying, reading and translating books, publishing newsletters, homeschooling my children, learning languages, crafts and occupations, traveling, noting down my projects, knowing more about philosophy and chemistry which both are equally fundamental to a meaningful life (among others)... and a lot of other things.
Although many people tell me that I'm not overweight and just should keep my mouth shut, I have been "feeling fat" since I realized I was a chubby child... apparently different from the others. From that resulted a history of trying whatever diet was available, with the most tangible result being an increased feeling of frustration and a deep insecurity about myself. Who am I, how do I define myself, what's the important thng - how I look or how I think? And of course - whom can I trust to tell me what's right for me? Can I trust in anybody, or do they all have a more or less hidden interest and just use me as a means, not as an end? Apparently thinking for myself was a crucial part in making peace with my body... so some day I set out to find about more on low carb plans. To my big surprise I saw that not only did it make me skinnier - the wonderful thing was that it blew away the foggy feeling that had been so familiar, the tiredness and irritability. We went camping in the French region of Dordogne the summer I started low carb (must have been 2002), and I fondly remember this vacation of being the most gourmet vacation I ever had... even with the very limited facilities of living in a small tent with 6 people during two weeks. I feasted on goose liver and French cheese, enjoyed salads of all kinds, created wonderful breakfasts from eggs and tomatoes, went out to restaurants and leaving them feeling wonderfully satiated... in short, a breeze!
So, you will ask (and I have asked that one, too), what happened? If this was so great, why did you change? The answer is easy... I just went back to my habitual life one day at a time. Little things slipped in, the habits were still too engrained in a way, and maybe above all, I felt that somehow, magically, things would just stay like that because I willed them to be. Of course this did not work. I learned that mistakes have their place in life, too, especially if you count them as experience and try to learn from them (and not make the same mistake twice, as there are so many of them around). I learned a lot about how body and mind work together, about psychological approaches to weight issues, I got active in various internet communities, resolved several important issues from my past, and now am ready to get serious about low carb again. I feel hat the roadblocks have been removed, my part of the kitchen cabinet has been cleared from stuf I do not need, and I'm motivated because I remember how I used to feel. Energized, vital, alive, powerful. I have just come back from another vacation that gave me lots of inspiration and projects for the future, and I feel like that again - full of energy, aware of the fact that there's a lot of new things I can do and new experiences, and I want to combine this with being physically energetic by keeping useless or even harmful stuff out of my body.
So, Jimmy, you really got me going. Thanks! I'm looking forward to this challenge and realize that there's only one person I can do this for: myself!
Oh, another thing I forgot: stats...
age: 42 years, 11 months, 15 days
height: 1 m 63, which must be 5.3 feet
current weight: 66 kg which is 145.5 pounds
Okay, folks, before anyone tells me that losing 30 pounds is harmful for my health, let me tell you this: I'm convinced that my body has her set point and knows best what suits her. So... I'm not "set" on any numeric goal to reach with lots of sweat (and lots of frustration in casse of failure) but will take this as the starting point to let my body regulate this herself. To help with this, I'll watch what I eat. The rest is open...
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