Today my three day battle with PMS came to a halt when I succumbed to 1 cookie, 1 package of ThinSations cookies and a chocolate chip muffin. A mere shadow of what I may have eaten in the past when smacked square in the face with the PMS monster, but a failure nonetheless. I’m not letting this define my success, however.
After having booked our tickets for Amsterdam this morning, the need to lose weight has come to the forefront—I don’t have bulkhead seats. My Husband and I are going to be sandwiched together in the 27th row for 7 hours. If I can lose 40 lbs, I’ll be SO much better off on that flight…*sigh*…it shouldn’t be too difficult to lose. I’ll have to remember to keep my eye on goal and not let the temptations get the best of me.
Earlier this week I watched a documentary on TLC about a woman who was 29 years old and weighed 900 lbs. I found it amazing that a person could gain 900 lbs in 29 years. Although the woman, Renee Willams, mentioned in an open plea on the internet that she wished to dispel the myth that overweight people grossly overeat, her own daughter mentioned her Mom “eating her feelings” and once eating 8 junior hamburgers from a well-known burger restaurant.
This made me wonder if someone who weighed 900 lbs could have an appetite strong enough to eat 8 hamburgers, wouldn’t a 300 lb person like myself have a greater appetite than someone like my Sister, who weighs 120lbs? I’ve often had lunch with my Sister and watched her eat half of her sandwich and take the other half home. She is legitimately full. I couldn’t be full on a half sandwich, so what gives? Could it be that once fat cells become large, they desire to be fed? Do fat people stretch their stomachs and require extra food to feel satisfied?
I wish I had more time to research these things, but I don’t have the patience for diet research. I’m tired of hearing the “ease” of eating less. I’m tired of hearing about will power. While I’ll agree that a calorie deficit is required for weight loss, I think eating protein for the sake of staying satisfied is greatly underestimated when it comes to the dieting “experts”. Eliminating processed foods has always worked for me. Simply eating less has not. Eating less of the wrong foods makes you feel starved–no wonder low calorie diets are so difficult to maintain! Besides, I’ve been following a low carb diet for 2 weeks and I’ve lost 16 lbs–that’s proof enough for me that it works. Let’s see how I do after this brutal PMS week…..
