Comments on: Trigger Unhappy http://www.lowfatpie.com/blog/2010/04/03/trigger-unhappy/ amazing what changes when you start to run Tue, 15 May 2012 05:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: pinkymcpie http://www.lowfatpie.com/blog/2010/04/03/trigger-unhappy/#comment-172 pinkymcpie Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:42:51 +0000 http://lowfatpie.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-172 I’ve read quite a few books, and I can do the techniques learned for a period of time but I always seem to revert to old habits. I think that’s the hardest part of all of this. How do we take something that we’ve learned, something that feels way better than the old way, but still go back to where we were when it wasn’t an ideal way of being? I have a book that I’m reading right now called “The Body is Perfect” (well, it’s in Dutch) and to be honest I haven’t picked it up in a couple of weeks because it’s hard to be confronted with this stuff. If only losing weight were just about losing weight!! I’ve read quite a few books, and I can do the techniques learned for a period of time but I always seem to revert to old habits. I think that’s the hardest part of all of this. How do we take something that we’ve learned, something that feels way better than the old way, but still go back to where we were when it wasn’t an ideal way of being?

I have a book that I’m reading right now called “The Body is Perfect” (well, it’s in Dutch) and to be honest I haven’t picked it up in a couple of weeks because it’s hard to be confronted with this stuff.

If only losing weight were just about losing weight!!

]]> By: pinkymcpie http://www.lowfatpie.com/blog/2010/04/03/trigger-unhappy/#comment-171 pinkymcpie Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:39:41 +0000 http://lowfatpie.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-171 a ha. now I know what you mean with the emotion. I have a lot of emotions brewing under the surface. Next time it happens I'm going to have a quick chat with myself and see what's really going on. Then I'm going to walk away from the candy jar and take 2 minutes to just breathe and calm down. Usually it's stress. Sometimes it's other things. a ha. now I know what you mean with the emotion. I have a lot of emotions brewing under the surface. Next time it happens I’m going to have a quick chat with myself and see what’s really going on. Then I’m going to walk away from the candy jar and take 2 minutes to just breathe and calm down. Usually it’s stress. Sometimes it’s other things.

]]> By: pinkymcpie http://www.lowfatpie.com/blog/2010/04/03/trigger-unhappy/#comment-170 pinkymcpie Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:37:15 +0000 http://lowfatpie.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-170 I thought about this too. Being fat is safe. In a twisted way. Being out of control is what I know. Being in control is doing something different, something I am not familiar with for long periods of time. Being overweight gives me excuses. To keep myself in that place is wrong but yet feels right in some very strange way. I thought about this too. Being fat is safe. In a twisted way. Being out of control is what I know. Being in control is doing something different, something I am not familiar with for long periods of time. Being overweight gives me excuses. To keep myself in that place is wrong but yet feels right in some very strange way.

]]> By: Fallon http://www.lowfatpie.com/blog/2010/04/03/trigger-unhappy/#comment-169 Fallon Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:11:21 +0000 http://lowfatpie.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-169 Wow, this was an intense entry. How DO we learn to be a person of moderation? I don't know for sure. Obviously we are all different and have our own issues to deal with. But I was curious if you've ever looked into cognitive therapy things, like the Beck Diet Solution. I read that book a few years back--it's basically supposed to teach you to think like a "thin person." Like a person who enjoys food in moderation and eats to nourish his or her body. Basically, like a person who has a healthy relationship with food. I did not complete the program delineated in the book, but it made a lot of sense. I think that if I had completed it, a lot of the things I would have learned would have become habit and would have helped me...maybe they would help you. Wow, this was an intense entry.

How DO we learn to be a person of moderation?

I don’t know for sure. Obviously we are all different and have our own issues to deal with. But I was curious if you’ve ever looked into cognitive therapy things, like the Beck Diet Solution. I read that book a few years back–it’s basically supposed to teach you to think like a “thin person.” Like a person who enjoys food in moderation and eats to nourish his or her body. Basically, like a person who has a healthy relationship with food.

I did not complete the program delineated in the book, but it made a lot of sense. I think that if I had completed it, a lot of the things I would have learned would have become habit and would have helped me…maybe they would help you.

]]> By: Mish http://www.lowfatpie.com/blog/2010/04/03/trigger-unhappy/#comment-168 Mish Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:14:35 +0000 http://lowfatpie.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-168 Wow, I feel really privilaged to have sparked something like this. I remember, so much, of feeling like this. Of feeling like 'well, how the hell can I EVER get out of this negative thinking pattern?' I have had heaps of dietary restrictions and coupled with a horrible break-up I started bingeing. Boy howdy can I pack away food if I want to. The thing which I have had to learn and start with is myself. Food is a coping mechanism, if used for these reasons, that result--in my opinion--from restriction, lack of self-love and addiction. I can tell you that I still struggle w/ restriction issues cause i want to have a bowl of ice cream and I want to have a piece of bread. but really that's the emotion speaking ie: rebellion, tired, hormonal, depressed, stressed, angry etc. The other thing is, and I have actually researched this and it's proven, is that for some people sugar can interfer with the dopamine receptors in our brains. Ie the mimic them and thus cause a dependancy on sugar to increase the feeling that we have when your dopamine receptors are hit. Researchers have made rats addicted to sugar and they show sings of w/d like drug addicts. I try not to eat sugar. It literally pulsates up my brain in 5 minutes and I have to be really careful with it. So, I would actually say to you, in this long winded response, that you have to start with you. Why are you so up and down with food/alcohol etc? What causes you to binge? Are you happy with yourself? THIS IS NOT EASY. and truthfully you may need to go to counselling to unravel it all. But I will tell you, that I could have written that post 1 year ago verbatium. Hand in there. ~M Wow, I feel really privilaged to have sparked something like this. I remember, so much, of feeling like this. Of feeling like ‘well, how the hell can I EVER get out of this negative thinking pattern?’

I have had heaps of dietary restrictions and coupled with a horrible break-up I started bingeing. Boy howdy can I pack away food if I want to. The thing which I have had to learn and start with is myself. Food is a coping mechanism, if used for these reasons, that result–in my opinion–from restriction, lack of self-love and addiction.

I can tell you that I still struggle w/ restriction issues cause i want to have a bowl of ice cream and I want to have a piece of bread. but really that’s the emotion speaking ie: rebellion, tired, hormonal, depressed, stressed, angry etc.

The other thing is, and I have actually researched this and it’s proven, is that for some people sugar can interfer with the dopamine receptors in our brains. Ie the mimic them and thus cause a dependancy on sugar to increase the feeling that we have when your dopamine receptors are hit. Researchers have made rats addicted to sugar and they show sings of w/d like drug addicts.

I try not to eat sugar. It literally pulsates up my brain in 5 minutes and I have to be really careful with it.

So, I would actually say to you, in this long winded response, that you have to start with you. Why are you so up and down with food/alcohol etc? What causes you to binge? Are you happy with yourself?

THIS IS NOT EASY. and truthfully you may need to go to counselling to unravel it all. But I will tell you, that I could have written that post 1 year ago verbatium.

Hand in there.
~M

]]> By: River http://www.lowfatpie.com/blog/2010/04/03/trigger-unhappy/#comment-167 River Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:33:05 +0000 http://lowfatpie.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-167 Why? For me: 1) I feel safe when I see a guy walking down the street towards me and I think "Oh he won't be interested in me, I'm so fat, I'm safe." 2) I use being fat is an excuse not to try and do things. Not to take that chance on myself. 3) I can blame others for my failures as in "I failed because I have no confidence, I'm so depressed,etc and it's all because of how fat I am and I'm fat because someone molested me, someone didn't stop my eating habbits, someone pushed me to food,etc." That's my honest truth. Why? For me: 1) I feel safe when I see a guy walking down the street towards me and I think “Oh he won’t be interested in me, I’m so fat, I’m safe.” 2) I use being fat is an excuse not to try and do things. Not to take that chance on myself. 3) I can blame others for my failures as in “I failed because I have no confidence, I’m so depressed,etc and it’s all because of how fat I am and I’m fat because someone molested me, someone didn’t stop my eating habbits, someone pushed me to food,etc.”
That’s my honest truth.

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