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Rant: Let me make something crystal clear...
Generally speaking I am not too easily offended. But I will say this. I find it extremely offensive when people make comments about my weight (i.e. my successful weight loss as I am now only about 10 pounds from my goal) in a derogatory manner out of spite or jealousy because they do not have the will to do what I have done and find, refine and keep a method that works to regain and maintain a healthy weight. Because I have set healthy REALISTIC goals, and you cannot and will not is not my problem. Too bad. As long as I continue to watch you all eating your candy bars, and meals based on noodles and potatoes, sucking down your sugared pops by the gallon, and drinking no water, eating virtually no natural foods... I don't think you have the right to make derogatory comments about my weight, or my dietary success.
Any further obnoxious comments about my success, or nasty comments about my eating habits, such has how inconvenient it is to go anywhere with me because no place has anything I can eat (completely untrue in fact there are very few places where I would have a hard time finding actual food to eat instead of the garbage that most Americans consider sustenance. It just requires a little more effort in ordering on my part, and that's my problem not yours.) Or how my dietary choices are unhealthy because you think you know how my body works and feels better than I do. Kiss my ass. I guarantee you that on a daily basis I eat better than you do, healthier than you do, get more vitamins than you do (without a multivitamin which I also take when I can bloody remember it.) and generally speaking take far superior care of my body than you do. I better... I mean for it to last me another 80 years or so.
I am Insulin resistant. Let me explain what that means. I produce plenty of insulin.... TOO much even. However, since Americans are instructed to eat about 10 times more sugar and starches (not to mention that those sugars are not super refined sugars alike High Fructose Corn Syrup which is in almost everything.) than our bodies need each day my body has started saying NO to its insulin when it tries to put more sugar into my cells. When my cells say NO to more sugar my insulin can't get in, and it just shrugs it's little I shaped shoulders and turns the sugar into fat since it's convinced that I will need it later. Now.. .by cutting off the supply of sugar and refined starches, I'm telling my insulin that it can turn that fat back into energy now... since they aren't already STUFFED with it, my cells will actually TALK to my insulins and take the energy it's offering from the fat it converted back, and I have energy where I had none before. Imagine that... Anyone wonder why I am energetic? Could it possibly be due to health?
I am glad to share recipes with people, and tell them what has worked for me. It has worked and works for a lot of people because so many people have been made insulin resistant because they were taught to eat such a ridiculous amount of starch and sugar. Did you know that most fat free foods have sugar added to them to make them taste right? Did you know that many simple and refined starches can break down into sugars inside your mouth? Anyway... when I share recipes with people, I'm sharing. I'm not insulting people and saying "You are so disgustingly fat that I insist you start eating like this." You do what you want. It's your body. My mother is fat. She is big and beautiful and I love her. She's fat because of her metabolism and what she chooses to eat, and how she chooses to snack. It's her choice. I don't love her less for it, and I don't tell her how fat she is. She doesn't tell me how thin I am, and especially not out of jealousy because I'm thin and she's not. She knows that she does not work for it and that I do... and I work damn hard for it too.
Here are some guidelines for you since a number of you don't seem to understand where I'm coming from here.
1. I am not 'disgustingly' thin. Nor am I 'skinny'. (Two recent examples) I am actually still about 10 pounds overweight. The implication that approaching a normal human weight is some how gross, or unnatural is really insulting, and I'm sick of it. And I mean REALLY sick of it. You want to pay me a compliment, then learn to do it without turning it into an insult or reflecting your petty jealousy in the way you do it and the tone of your statement. Until you can, just keep your comments to yourself. I don't need it.
2. Since I adopted (i.e. went back to) my policy of not biting my tongue anymore. People who do not complain about my healthy dietary needs will see more of me. Those who a) bitch or b) encourage me to eat things that only stand to decrease my state of health and well being can expect to see less of me. c) those who poo poo my dietary choices can just freaking kiss my ass because I'm sick of hearing it. d) those who do not make rude comments about my appearance, or choices are not likely to hear me snap back with comments about theirs. I admit that I am bad about commenting back when someone offends me in this way... but generally my comments are right on the mark. If someone insults me because they are jealous of my success, I will be very damn quick to point out why I am successful and they are not. (i.e. why I am healthy, and you are not.) Too bad if you are disgusted by health. Chances are I am just as disgusted by your lack of it. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to point that out.
3. I am also really tired of people telling me "Oh just one won't hurt you." I hear this over and over and over again, and I'm really tired of that too, because often in my case that is NOT true. It does hurt me. It hurts me for days sometimes. Most of you people who say this to me ought to have a clue by now since I've said it enough times. Do not encourage me to eat something that I have already said clearly that I better not have. Whether you are trying to make me feel bad for not eating something you offered me or not, that's how it comes across. If I say no, then accept that answer and leave it the fuck alone. Also if I ask what will be available to eat at a gathering, I want to know for a reason. I don't mind if I need to bring my own food so that I don't end up either missing a meal, or else being tempted to eat something I can't handle because I'm hungry. It's frustrating to be told "We'll make sure there's something for you to eat" and arrive to find that it's actually a very small selection, not much of it, or something I don't really like. (Hint: I like bites of meat and cheese... I don't like it when it's been sitting out in the air for an hour or so... it's nasty. I'd rather bring my own so I can keep them on an ice pack in a closed container.) I have often said "If not, then I'll grab something on the way for a meal," been told that I don't need to that there will be enough, and then arrived to find nowhere near enough food to comprise a meal... (though plenty of snacks and sugary things) Sorry, guys, but if I ask "should I grab dinner on the way" and I should... I'm not insulted to have to do that.. .I'm only asking because I need to know.
4. If I ask how much sugar is in something, quit telling me "Not much". What you think is not much could be WAY over the top for me. I'm not asking to be a bitch. I'm asking because I need to know how much sugar is in it. If you don't know, then just say so. I won't eat it. Also, do me the favor of not handing me a bottle of something loaded with sugar. Drinking sugar is even worse. It probably doesn't occur to you, but most of the un-sugared pops that I drink now, do NOT taste like the diet pops of old... so I really can't tell the difference. It doesn't always occur to me to ask "How much sugar is in this"... after so long, I guess I kind of expect that most people know that drinking a bottle of sugar is likely to make me pretty sick and be on the lookout for me. I made this mistake a few weeks ago, someone handed me a bottle of sugar, and I drank it without thinking. I was thirsty it was a social occasion... I was sick for three days and fairly miserable for the better part of a week. It was two weeks before I felt normal again and had a normal level of energy. I didn't say anything about this when it happened, or how ill it made me, but I'm going to say it now, because I think it bloody needs to be said. I'm just asking you to think. That's all.
Uh... Well I think that's enough ranting on this subject. Don't like what you see? Fine. Stay the hell away from me. Don't want to hear the truth? Don't make comments that will earn you a backlash for truth. That's very simple.
Thank the Goddess my addictions tend to be things like Anime, Video Games and Manga. (Erm... and tobacco... but I'm killing that one too... Haven't smoked since the 29th of September. The Anime addiction is currently being fed instead.
This morning's weight: 137# Officially 7 more to go. If you don't like it, then just kiss my ass and stay away from me until you can accept either who you are as you are, or else accept that you have to do something about it and do it.
Good Night.
Any further obnoxious comments about my success, or nasty comments about my eating habits, such has how inconvenient it is to go anywhere with me because no place has anything I can eat (completely untrue in fact there are very few places where I would have a hard time finding actual food to eat instead of the garbage that most Americans consider sustenance. It just requires a little more effort in ordering on my part, and that's my problem not yours.) Or how my dietary choices are unhealthy because you think you know how my body works and feels better than I do. Kiss my ass. I guarantee you that on a daily basis I eat better than you do, healthier than you do, get more vitamins than you do (without a multivitamin which I also take when I can bloody remember it.) and generally speaking take far superior care of my body than you do. I better... I mean for it to last me another 80 years or so.
I am Insulin resistant. Let me explain what that means. I produce plenty of insulin.... TOO much even. However, since Americans are instructed to eat about 10 times more sugar and starches (not to mention that those sugars are not super refined sugars alike High Fructose Corn Syrup which is in almost everything.) than our bodies need each day my body has started saying NO to its insulin when it tries to put more sugar into my cells. When my cells say NO to more sugar my insulin can't get in, and it just shrugs it's little I shaped shoulders and turns the sugar into fat since it's convinced that I will need it later. Now.. .by cutting off the supply of sugar and refined starches, I'm telling my insulin that it can turn that fat back into energy now... since they aren't already STUFFED with it, my cells will actually TALK to my insulins and take the energy it's offering from the fat it converted back, and I have energy where I had none before. Imagine that... Anyone wonder why I am energetic? Could it possibly be due to health?
I am glad to share recipes with people, and tell them what has worked for me. It has worked and works for a lot of people because so many people have been made insulin resistant because they were taught to eat such a ridiculous amount of starch and sugar. Did you know that most fat free foods have sugar added to them to make them taste right? Did you know that many simple and refined starches can break down into sugars inside your mouth? Anyway... when I share recipes with people, I'm sharing. I'm not insulting people and saying "You are so disgustingly fat that I insist you start eating like this." You do what you want. It's your body. My mother is fat. She is big and beautiful and I love her. She's fat because of her metabolism and what she chooses to eat, and how she chooses to snack. It's her choice. I don't love her less for it, and I don't tell her how fat she is. She doesn't tell me how thin I am, and especially not out of jealousy because I'm thin and she's not. She knows that she does not work for it and that I do... and I work damn hard for it too.
Here are some guidelines for you since a number of you don't seem to understand where I'm coming from here.
1. I am not 'disgustingly' thin. Nor am I 'skinny'. (Two recent examples) I am actually still about 10 pounds overweight. The implication that approaching a normal human weight is some how gross, or unnatural is really insulting, and I'm sick of it. And I mean REALLY sick of it. You want to pay me a compliment, then learn to do it without turning it into an insult or reflecting your petty jealousy in the way you do it and the tone of your statement. Until you can, just keep your comments to yourself. I don't need it.
2. Since I adopted (i.e. went back to) my policy of not biting my tongue anymore. People who do not complain about my healthy dietary needs will see more of me. Those who a) bitch or b) encourage me to eat things that only stand to decrease my state of health and well being can expect to see less of me. c) those who poo poo my dietary choices can just freaking kiss my ass because I'm sick of hearing it. d) those who do not make rude comments about my appearance, or choices are not likely to hear me snap back with comments about theirs. I admit that I am bad about commenting back when someone offends me in this way... but generally my comments are right on the mark. If someone insults me because they are jealous of my success, I will be very damn quick to point out why I am successful and they are not. (i.e. why I am healthy, and you are not.) Too bad if you are disgusted by health. Chances are I am just as disgusted by your lack of it. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to point that out.
3. I am also really tired of people telling me "Oh just one won't hurt you." I hear this over and over and over again, and I'm really tired of that too, because often in my case that is NOT true. It does hurt me. It hurts me for days sometimes. Most of you people who say this to me ought to have a clue by now since I've said it enough times. Do not encourage me to eat something that I have already said clearly that I better not have. Whether you are trying to make me feel bad for not eating something you offered me or not, that's how it comes across. If I say no, then accept that answer and leave it the fuck alone. Also if I ask what will be available to eat at a gathering, I want to know for a reason. I don't mind if I need to bring my own food so that I don't end up either missing a meal, or else being tempted to eat something I can't handle because I'm hungry. It's frustrating to be told "We'll make sure there's something for you to eat" and arrive to find that it's actually a very small selection, not much of it, or something I don't really like. (Hint: I like bites of meat and cheese... I don't like it when it's been sitting out in the air for an hour or so... it's nasty. I'd rather bring my own so I can keep them on an ice pack in a closed container.) I have often said "If not, then I'll grab something on the way for a meal," been told that I don't need to that there will be enough, and then arrived to find nowhere near enough food to comprise a meal... (though plenty of snacks and sugary things) Sorry, guys, but if I ask "should I grab dinner on the way" and I should... I'm not insulted to have to do that.. .I'm only asking because I need to know.
4. If I ask how much sugar is in something, quit telling me "Not much". What you think is not much could be WAY over the top for me. I'm not asking to be a bitch. I'm asking because I need to know how much sugar is in it. If you don't know, then just say so. I won't eat it. Also, do me the favor of not handing me a bottle of something loaded with sugar. Drinking sugar is even worse. It probably doesn't occur to you, but most of the un-sugared pops that I drink now, do NOT taste like the diet pops of old... so I really can't tell the difference. It doesn't always occur to me to ask "How much sugar is in this"... after so long, I guess I kind of expect that most people know that drinking a bottle of sugar is likely to make me pretty sick and be on the lookout for me. I made this mistake a few weeks ago, someone handed me a bottle of sugar, and I drank it without thinking. I was thirsty it was a social occasion... I was sick for three days and fairly miserable for the better part of a week. It was two weeks before I felt normal again and had a normal level of energy. I didn't say anything about this when it happened, or how ill it made me, but I'm going to say it now, because I think it bloody needs to be said. I'm just asking you to think. That's all.
Uh... Well I think that's enough ranting on this subject. Don't like what you see? Fine. Stay the hell away from me. Don't want to hear the truth? Don't make comments that will earn you a backlash for truth. That's very simple.
Thank the Goddess my addictions tend to be things like Anime, Video Games and Manga. (Erm... and tobacco... but I'm killing that one too... Haven't smoked since the 29th of September. The Anime addiction is currently being fed instead.
This morning's weight: 137# Officially 7 more to go. If you don't like it, then just kiss my ass and stay away from me until you can accept either who you are as you are, or else accept that you have to do something about it and do it.
Good Night.
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*Shakes head*
You should be congratulated on your weight-losing progress. You've found a system that works for you, helps you feel better about your self, and keeps you energetically healthy! That, as the kids sometimes say, is teh b0mb!
*Smiles*
Even if I am not personally trying to hard to change my diet, as a diabetic, I can VERY and TRULY appreciate several of your comments. Too much sugar or too many hidden sugars (like carbohydrates) can be lethal to me. I mean, it is dangerous to me to have as much as I do...which doesn't include soda, BTW.
Anyway, I'm sorry that people are ragging on your healthier diet and weight, Ishte. It's not right that they are doing it. Keep doing what it is you're doing as it's obviously working. If your friends cannot respect you for making your own choices, well, you can tell them to take a long walk off a short pier or something!
*Grins*
WAY TO GO!!!
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I have people constantly harping at me about not eating meat, and I firmly tell them ALL meat makes me ill and I can tell in a matter of moments if food has been cooked with animal fat. I've had fewer asthma attacks, my blood pressure is down (well not as much as it should be..but getting there), and I feel FAR better than a lot of people do that eat meat. But I sure don't go around nagging them about the fact they eat meat.
It's everyone's individual choices in what they put into their bodies, and it should be remembered that not everyone will eat the same. Pisses me off that there's some people giving you a hard time!
I, for one, am thrilled you're losing the weight and feeling better about yourself.
Tell the naysayers to take a flying leap OUT of your life.
Maryna
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