Re: Re: Diet success story...

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I believe it that kids didn't notice. I know my mom lost a lot of weight when I was in elementary school and I never noticed her weight, only that she ate differently than the rest of us. even now, i feel like i am sort of programmed not to notice her weight -- she's always " just " my mom. her appearance is irrelevant. for her appearance to matter, it would mean that she had an identity outside of me -- horrors!

I do remember liking adults better with nice soft laps for sitting on and cuddly soft arms and chests for hugging. but i only noticed from this tactile perspective, not visually.

 

Of COURSE the children didn't really notice. All people REALLY care about, especially small children, which those were, was how that person made them FEEL. In fact, as I get larger and larger, I need to keep that in mind with my own students.

I cannot imagine ever doing that--counting points for so long, or anything really. Who was it hee that said they got put on a diet when they were nine years old. I wanted to yell at that mom. How long was this child supposed to stay on a diet? For the rest of their lives? It,s really trully crazy-making.

Tilley

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> Last night on the news there was this story of a woman who had weighed almost 400 pounds then went on Weight Watchers and lost all the excess weight. The news people were all smiling and happy and the woman in question is like a Zumba teacher or something and was shown jumping up and down in a classroom where she teaches kindergarten.

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> Kids from earlier classes were asked about her before and after and they all said that they never noticed her former weight, that she was always a really good teacher. I was like " really? " How, in a fat-hating society did these kids not notice that their teacher was very, very overweight?! And why was she and her entire class jumping up and down throughout the whole interview?

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> And who in the world could count points every single day for, what was it, two or three years?!

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> I was never able to stay with a diet plan where I had only a few points, calories or fat grams leeway. I always did best on diet no-brainers; eliminating all grains, all carbs, all fat or just plain eliminating food. But to obsessively count every bite, every snack, every meal - for years?!

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> I'm not actually sure what was so unsettling about the program - but maybe it was tied to me finding the packet of books and counters I bought at my last forray into WW which was just about this time last year. I dunno. Or maybe it was just another message about how I don't have enough discipline and if I did I'd be jumping up and down and would become a Zumba teacher too.

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> Of course the bit did finish with " Now she says that her goal is to keep the weight off " . I guess that's the real bottom line of that story.

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> Well, this is just me griping about all this diet stuff on television, especially the " news " .

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> Sandarah

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