Guest guest Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Missy, I think you solved part of your problem when you acknowledged being tired from overtraining. Yeah, it makes you hungry (of course!). I've done this myself, a number of times. Why not ratchet it back just a little and see how you do? For me, overtraining and obsessive adherance to dietary minutiae (sp?-- like freaking out about 30 calories difference between one food or another -- ties in to my demand for perfection: perfect exercise regimen, perfect eating regimen, and of course, perfectly crippling self-loathing when all components are not adhered to quite so perfectly. What resonates so much for me were the last few lines of your post. This is the central question I ask myself, over and over, day after day -- some days not so loudly or insistently as others, but it is always a background query. ALWAYS. My goal in life is to come to some sort of peace and freedom with this issue, at the same time acknowledging that for me, I will always have to have some sort of discipline about my food and exercise. There IS a balance there to be learned and achieved between doing what is healthy for us, both physically and emotionally, and not doing it to our physical and emotional detriment by making it an obsession. Lucille <<How do I just be happy? How do I learn to enjoy food, not think about it constantly and just live my new life? I don;t want to obsess. Thanks Missie>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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