Sat, Feb-14-04, 13:07
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Plan: My Own
Stats: 280/118/117.5
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Progress: 100%
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Originally Posted by liz175
One more thought. The people posting on this board seem to be divided between those for whom discovering low carbing is like a lightbulb going off in their head (they suddenly understand why they got so fat, change their behavior, and start losing weight) and people for whom low carbing is much more difficult (they have tremendous difficulty sticking to low carb eating and post a lot about falling off the wagon). I fall into the first group and I think that most of us in the first group probably gained weight for purely physical reasons -- we were eating incorrectly for our bodies and didn't realize that. Once we realized it, we were able to fairly easily change our eating habits. People in the second group MAY be more likely to have psychological issues related to the weight gain that they need to deal with. I'm not saying they all do, just that if there are people with psychological issues that caused them to gain weight, they probably fall into the group that finds low carbing more difficult.
If you do think you are having psychological issues related to weight gain, I highly recommend Dr. Phil's book. He focuses on how to change your thought patterns now, rather than digging into your past to find the origins of those thought patterns. I like his attitude.
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Liz, I think for all overweight people the reason they got fat is both emotional and physical. You can't get addicted to carbs unless you were abusing them in the first place. For some of us (such as myself), the emotional component is less important than the physical component. These types lose weight easy and rarely if ever cheat. But, just because it is less important for us, doesn't mean it is not there.
People who over eat primarily for emotional reasons, or are on a diet which is incompatable with their body, these types will run into the emotional pitfalls of dieting earlier... usually during weight loss phases. Maintenence is the real test.
When it is time to maintain weight loss, and you are no longer in "dieter mode", behavioral and psychological problems come out to be delt with. Once you aren't enforcing strict control over how and what you eat, you are likely to just fall into "natural" behavior... and if you're "natural behavior" hasn't been checked out and changed you won't maintain.
There is a reason very few people fail to maintain weight loss, and that is because most people don't realize their "natural behavior" and was the principle cause of their gain in the first place.
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