Snowflake Challenge -- day eight
Jan. 8th, 2016 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsDay 08
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"
I've been doing that since challenge one, so I'm saying, done!
It was my psych appointment today.
It went much better than I was expecting. Mainly what he was trying to get me to do was to stop being disappointed with the weight I've lost so far, because it's a significant amount, my dietician is happy with me and I'm on track to achieve the usual amount lost using a balloon. We talked about how I feel much better physically, how I can walk much further and for longer, and do more than I used to, and how that should be my goal and not the numbers.
He also kept saying how it's biology that I'm like this. I mean, not all obviously, biology doesn't shove food down my throat, but the fact that I'm just one of those people who put on weight really easily and find it hard to take off. He kept saying how yeah, it sucked that I need to eat much less than someone else in order to not put on weight, but it's biology, that's just how my body is, and how because I need to eat less over the years, and haven't, it's led to the vicious circle where I put weight on, then move less, therefore not burning off any of the calories I do hold onto so easily.
He said a few times that it wasn't fair, the same way it isn't fair on the people who burn calories too easily and can't put weight on. But it happens -- that it's biology -- and all I can do is attempt to come to terms with the fact I just can't eat even a little over normal without gaining significant weight.
He talked about how I could still have feasts if I wanted, but while everyone else could have big feasts I'd have to have little ones, which I guess is better than being banned from all kinds of food for all times. And that I needed to stop being disappointed in myself as none of the medical professionals I'm seeing are.
Which I'm trying, but easier said than done. I also need to bump my exercise up, just a teeny bit each time, adding maybe a minute to the walks I'm doing. Which again, I can do, I just need to have confidence in myself that it's possible, because once I am out walking I enjoy myself, and my fitness is much better. It's just I forget that when I'm not out and about and revert back to thinking I'm the person who got out of breath really easily and whose back hurt after a few steps.
Next appointment is in a month and I'm feeling quite positive right now. Hopefully it'll remain that way.
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"
I've been doing that since challenge one, so I'm saying, done!
It was my psych appointment today.
It went much better than I was expecting. Mainly what he was trying to get me to do was to stop being disappointed with the weight I've lost so far, because it's a significant amount, my dietician is happy with me and I'm on track to achieve the usual amount lost using a balloon. We talked about how I feel much better physically, how I can walk much further and for longer, and do more than I used to, and how that should be my goal and not the numbers.
He also kept saying how it's biology that I'm like this. I mean, not all obviously, biology doesn't shove food down my throat, but the fact that I'm just one of those people who put on weight really easily and find it hard to take off. He kept saying how yeah, it sucked that I need to eat much less than someone else in order to not put on weight, but it's biology, that's just how my body is, and how because I need to eat less over the years, and haven't, it's led to the vicious circle where I put weight on, then move less, therefore not burning off any of the calories I do hold onto so easily.
He said a few times that it wasn't fair, the same way it isn't fair on the people who burn calories too easily and can't put weight on. But it happens -- that it's biology -- and all I can do is attempt to come to terms with the fact I just can't eat even a little over normal without gaining significant weight.
He talked about how I could still have feasts if I wanted, but while everyone else could have big feasts I'd have to have little ones, which I guess is better than being banned from all kinds of food for all times. And that I needed to stop being disappointed in myself as none of the medical professionals I'm seeing are.
Which I'm trying, but easier said than done. I also need to bump my exercise up, just a teeny bit each time, adding maybe a minute to the walks I'm doing. Which again, I can do, I just need to have confidence in myself that it's possible, because once I am out walking I enjoy myself, and my fitness is much better. It's just I forget that when I'm not out and about and revert back to thinking I'm the person who got out of breath really easily and whose back hurt after a few steps.
Next appointment is in a month and I'm feeling quite positive right now. Hopefully it'll remain that way.
