Re: Not only RNY, but OCD too

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<<4. Thou will not beg, cry or otherwise talk to your bathroom scale before

you

step on.>> posted by Faye

Hi Everyone! Haven't been " around " for a couple of weeks, and am

backreading for a bit this afternoon. I have some insane behavior to report

relating

to the above: now, I don't beg, cry or talk to the scale, but every morning

before I step on the thing (I have had the same scale for about 20 years too),

I HAVE to tap it with the big toe of my left foot. I have NO idea why I do

this, but I have been doing it FOREVER, and I just can't get on the scale if I

don't do it. And yes, I also get on the scale leading with my left foot too.

CANNOT get on with my right foot (I am right-handed, so go figure.)

Here's where the straight-jacketed kind of insanity comes to play: IF I want

to

weigh myself additional times beyond the first " reading " , I must STILL tap

the thing with my big toe/left foot, and step on with my left foot. If I

weigh myself 10 times in a row, I will/MUST do this each and every time. And

frankly, there is seldom a morning where I do not take multiple readings.

I don't have any other OCD type obsessions ... just this one thing relating

to the scale and weighing in. What the hell is going on??????????? LMAO!

Anyway, hope everyone has been well. I saw something interesting on AOL's

" Health " channel the other day. They had a link to WebMD, which featured an

article by a Harvard researcher regarding low carb diets and how they compare

to low fat diets. Now previously I had always adhered to the principle

that to lose weight, it's a function of calories in, calories expended --

basically irrespective of what you were eating. However, this Harvard

researcher

put a bunch of people on an IDENTICALLY calibrated caloric intake, but one

section was on low fat, one section was on low carb -- each receiving exactly

1500

calories a day, just tailored to their particular eating plan. A last group

she put on 1800 calories a day, also low carb. The results were that the

low fat group lost 17 lbs in 12 weeks. the low carb 1500 calorie people lost 23

lbs in 12 weeks, and the 1800 calorie low carbers lost 20 lbs in 12 weeks.

This study certainly seems to fly in the face of detractors of the low carb

diets who always have claimed that low carb diets work because they are

essentially low calorie, and not because of the dietary restrictions they

require.

More research is being done on this, but perhaps we can begin to wonder (as

many on this list have done already) if losing weight doesn't just involve HOW

much you eat, but WHAT you eat.

Lucille