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Originally Posted by Katzue
I thought it was absolutely horrible the way they threw the word "low carb" and "high protein" around. It made us look horrible.
They made dieting look so painful, and revealed the obvious gremlins that young dieters face. I was disappointed that the pageant girl went against the nutritionist who encouraged her to eat more food and lose more weight... She'd be a lot more healthy and would lose just as much if not more weight by stoking her metabolism.
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What I don't understand about crash dieters, yo-yo dieters, and others who starve to lose weight, is they seem to have this almost fantasy, irrational, almost insane way of looking at the body and food.
They don't think logically about it. They look at food as this "bad scary thing that makes you fat". They look at food as poison, they look at their shape and size as the products of being "attacked by food". They look at food and size emotionally and don't think about it logically and rationally.
They don't realize food is merely fuel, food does not make you fat, and that to lose weight and look GOOD (aka healthy) you actually DO need food. Food is needed for energy, to build muscles, to keep youthful apperance and to look good. Starving for a beauty pagent is counter productive. If you starve yourself what you wind up with is high body fat, no muscles, and a look of unhealthy emaciation. You look sick, your face looks drawn, you look "skinny fat".
I think the reason people with this mentality have a "last supper" (and then a post diet binge) is because, mentally and emotionally they are so afraid of food (since they have an irrational view of food as "evil" and "poison" or somehow "dangerous") that they won't even attempt to try to be moderate and enjoy food while losing weight. They don't feel it possible. Single minded focus on their goal is what they are concerned with. Their goal is weight loss, and they erroneously believe that their goal is incongruent with eating. The less they can eat, the better, and since they want to lose it ASAP that means total and complete deprivation.
In reality better physical results are obtained by eating food - as long as the food is the right foods and for the right reasons. I lost weight very quickly and I made sure to eat the right foods. Though I did cut back a lot to force faster loss, when I was TRULY hungry I always ate, I never tried to totally deny my body when it beconned for nourishment. This is because, despite my "food issues" I always was very rational and logical about food. The only time I ever felt that "food phobia" was with carbs (and that's ONLY because I had been almost exclusively avoiding them, and doing so made it easy to lose weight/control hunger... so I was very unsure of HOW MANY or WHAT KINDS of carbs were the problem, it may have been carbs in general for all I knew).
If people could just view weight and eating a little more rationally you wouldn't have people trying to achieve their "ideal size" by eating only cottage cheese or only apples or other craziness.