Leisa stated...

[Guest guest]

YEWOUCH!! Don't think of myself in those terms here (or most cronies

for that matter).

Everyone has a different level obsessive extremes to which they

practice CRON with some not

being obsessive at all. Which always brings us to the ultimate

question....what is normal?

What is normal? Well I think it's abnormal myself to have my diet

occupy my thought procesess for hours every single day, be so

preoccupied with CRON that I have little time for other interests,

feel guilt/shame if I occasionally overeat or simply allow myself to

have some sort of self-imposed forbidden food, practice behaviors and

rituals around food that bulemics and anorexics frequently resort to,

and employ defense mechanisms such as denial and rationalization when

confronted by friends and love ones regarding my eating habits. I'm

not implying all, or even the majority of CRonies fit this

description, but after a couple of years being exposed to this and

the other message board I'm convinced that there are many

individuals " out of balance " when it comes to combining CRon and the

rest of their lives. Therefore, when I read about someone who has

made remarkable improvemnets incorporating CRon principles in their

health without going off the deep end, it makes me realize that this

stuff is not realy rocket science at all and does not have to be

practiced in a manner that reeks of deprivation.

[Guest guest]

Amen to that.

However - the vast majority of the population thinks 'normal' is a

BMI up in the range of 28. A little more educated preoccupation with

their diet would be a major positive.

Our current fast-food culture, and the advertising level for snack

foods and so forth demonstrates the power of marketing.

Iris

--- In @y..., " Mike Harkreader " <titanmeister@h...>

wrote:

>

>

> What is normal? Well I think it's abnormal myself to have my diet

> occupy my thought procesess for hours every single day, be so

> preoccupied with CRON that I have little time for other interests,

> feel guilt/shame if I occasionally overeat or simply allow myself

to

> have some sort of self-imposed forbidden food, practice behaviors

and

> rituals around food that bulemics and anorexics frequently resort

to,

> and employ defense mechanisms such as denial and rationalization

when

> confronted by friends and love ones regarding my eating habits.

I'm

> not implying all, or even the majority of CRonies fit this

> description, but after a couple of years being exposed to this and

> the other message board I'm convinced that there are many

> individuals " out of balance " when it comes to combining CRon and

the

> rest of their lives. Therefore, when I read about someone who has

> made remarkable improvemnets incorporating CRon principles in their

> health without going off the deep end, it makes me realize that

this

> stuff is not realy rocket science at all and does not have to be

> practiced in a manner that reeks of deprivation.

[Guest guest]

> However - the vast majority of the population thinks 'normal' is a

> BMI up in the range of 28. A little more educated preoccupation

> with their diet would be a major positive.

>

> Our current fast-food culture, and the advertising level for snack

> foods and so forth demonstrates the power of marketing.

>

> Iris

>

Well non-CRONies probably discuss favorite foods the way kids discuss

favorite colors, like what wine works with what meal or a salty snack

works well with a soda. There's more to diet than that. I know that

after practicing CRON for a half year, I feel better and get around

easier and as long as I feel like a kid again, I readjust my thinking

and planning to take in a bigger horizon of life. What was normal

becomes, well, not the way I might do things in the future. In a

way, by being young again, we're all becoming wise.