Posted by Amy | Posted in DropDeadGorgeousByDec | Posted on 05-09-2010
Tags: DDGBD, Fat Girl
Starting Weight: 193 pounds
Current Weight: 191
I WILL LISTEN TO MY BODY
ONE brag for the week: I haven’t smoked in two weeks
ONE thing to improve upon for next week: LISTEN TO MY BODY!
You know, I’ve been doing this weight loss thing for a while and I still get sucked into certain ways of thinking. Just because some “diet guru” or some written diet plan says y0u should eat a particular way to lose gobs of weight, doesn’t mean A) it’s true and B) it’s a good method for ME.
I bought the Clean Eating Diet Book last week. I love the ideas behind clean eating which is basically don’t eat processed food. Simple right? In the book there is a “Cooler Plan” that is supposed to lead to tons of weight loss so, like a starry eyed newbie, I hopped on the bandwagon and followed the plan, which is essentially eat lots of protein. Animal protein. Basically chicken and green veggies at every meal. Pretty freaking simple.
Simple, yes, but I’m ignoring one important detail – my body doesn’t like processing large amounts of animal protein. What the heck was I thinking??
In my food adventures I’ve gone from Atkins to vegan and everything in between. When I was vegan, I KNEW that my body needed a certain level of protein that was really hard to get from plant sources. When I did Atkins, I KNEW my body sort of shut down and freaked out over processing so much meat.
I KNOW my body feels great having yogurt every day and keeping meat to one serving or less a day.
I KNOW this and yet I still let inner Fat Girl get wooed by the promise of fast and easy weight loss.
Oh yeah, and I forgot another IMPORTANT point – I don’t like chicken so why the heck am I eating chicken three times a day?
So I follow the plan for six days and then spend 2 days in agony as my body decides to flip out and I deal with cramping, the inability to poo and all sorts of other TMI issues. So lesson learned, yet again, the hard way – Listen to my body.
First of all.. I LOVE your brag for the week! WTG!!!!
and second of all, you are doing awesome !!! Keep it up
Thanks Kelly!!!!!
Hi Amy you look great! I used weight watchers to drop 35 pounds along with my running!
I love the fact you are smoke free for 2 weeks thats great *** one week closer to the big date ***
John
Hey Amy! I am the girl from Weight Watchers… the one that had you in my brain all last week while I was forcing myself to exercise my butt off… well I read your entire website and I LOVE IT!! Its nice to know that I am not the only person that has a “fat girl” in my head telling me different things… but i gotta tell you that since you talked at last weeks meeting about your web site, I was able to shut “fat girl” up all week by repeating over and over in my head that “fat girls can run!”… which in turn, for me, has nothing to do with running at all… I can’t run (for now anyway) due to the fact that I shattered my ankle a few years back, and the motion of running causes my ankle to slip out of place, which causes me to not be able to walk for a few days… but I have been doing other things that “fat girl” doesn’t like to do… like go for walks every night and then come home and play Dance Dance Revolution, or WII fit. “fat girl” doesn’t like to do any of the above, mainly because “she can’t breathe, and her legs hurt, and she feels a slight pain in her ankle, or she is sweating” Anyway, the purpose of my long winded comment is to really thank you for sharing your story with me… and to let you know that you made a difference on my out look on exercising, and that you gave me the power to shut “fat girl” up with four simple words “fat girls can run!”
OMG you totally made me cry!!! Fat girls CAN run isn’t really about running at all. Running is just the metaphor or the tool I use to communicate this complex dance we do with food, fitness and our inner crazy people. Everyone has an inner fat girl, that voice inside you that screams you can’t do something. I’m all about defying that right now and making my life the way I want it!! WE should totally hang out and like get frozen yogurt or something!!
Red Mango
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I used to follow all the Oxygen magazine, Tosca Reno stuff to a tee. It was way too restrictive for me and I hated it. It even contributed to my binging. Much better to find what works for you! I recently did a post about listening to your body and the 30 Days of Self Love on my blog. I hope you give it a look.
http://www.faithfitnessfun.com/3896/30-days-of-self-love-trusting-your-body/
When I was working as a cook, I did a whole year of “no processed foods”. That’s basically the whole Clean Eating thing right? I was a little kooky about it. If I wanted crackers, I’d make the crackers. I even cooked my dog’s food. When all you do is cook all day anyway, that’s fine, but my life doesn’t accommodate that anymore.
Here’s the trick for me, learning to listen to my body AND not being tricked by my inner Fat Girl. I’ve been craving cupcakes. Something sweet and oh so nutritionally wrong. Is that my body talking or Fat Girl? Either way, I had the cupcake, the first two bites were great. The last two were not so great. But at least I got the cupcake out of my system.
Congrats on being smoke free for TWO WHOLE WEEKS! Maybe I should have The Lover check out your blog?
I love your outlook. You ROCK.
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Can wait to read your next installment.
I hope your feeling better from your fall.
John
i mean cant wait LOL