Wellness

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@SingingLady 

After the pandemic, several of us started a WW group here in the forums with the most successful plan WW ever did, "Quick Success".  

All of our recipes, tools and everything may be a useful bit of info for you.

https://community.qvc.com/t5/Among-Friends/Girls-Whom-Among-Us-Did-WW-Exchange-Programs-Of-the-1980-...

[hckynutjohn]

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

My life has been one diet after another. My Mother would NOT allow me to eat so that I would be skinny. I was skinny but also sick. When does it end? When I have finally crossed the bar and met my pilot face to face.

@Group 5 minus 1 

Usually I can decipher what the total context of a post means. So, you are placing blame on your Mother, have I got that right? I assume you are now well into adulthood.

Then you are "crossing some bar" nose to nose with a phantom pilot. Got it!!!  Yep, makes sense!

Guess I will keep blaming my long deceased(1969) mother for whatever problems arise in my life, that'll do it.

hckynut 🇺🇸

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[hckynutjohn]

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@PilatesLover wrote:

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

My life has been one diet after another. My Mother would NOT allow me to eat so that I would be skinny. I was skinny but also sick. When does it end? When I have finally crossed the bar and met my pilot face to face.

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I'm so sorry. I had a friend who lived through that with her mother. It caused her to have a lifetime of eating disorders.  

@PilatesLover 

Using that theory, not sure if I should blame my mother/grandmother/great grandmother/great-great grandmother, and of course their choice of men for!  Those dang CAD genetics they passed on to me. 

Haven't heard of any way other than maybe a Heart Transplant, along with swapping out my whole Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems, that might help.

Genetic predisposition and one's environment do not condemn one to a lifetime of whatever one chooses to blame their familial humans. 

Unlike what one puts in their mouth, things like Cardiovascular and other systems, are not quite as simple. Sure, it is harder for others to lose/gain weight, but it also isn't always the fault of some disease(genetic or otherwise) for one's body composition.

Not getting what you or the other post by @Group 5 minus 1  are putting down, other than blame.

hckynut 🇺🇸

[Group 5 minus 1]

@hckynutjohn Those diet buttons were installed when I was a child. I think you are being a little harsh w/me. The Pilot I am referring to is God and those lines are from"Crossing the Bar" by Tennyson. The poem ends w/"I hope to se my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar." It was one of Daddy's fav poems.

Men generally do not relate to being heavy (overweight) like women. I could go on and on about being so hungry and not being permitted to eat,but I will end this posting.

[SingingLady]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@SingingLady wrote:

Today it ended with me weighing in at a number that horrified me. Not that I haven't seen it coming. I've gained and lost the same twenty pounds so many times it's ridiculous. And not healthy!
This morning I joined WW. I definitely need structure and accountability. 
I put a step tracker on my phone and will go for a walk this morning. Sunny and in the 70s today. What could be better! 
Anyone else making positive changes to start the new year?
FWIW, my username on WW is fairydogmother2 if you happen to be a member and want to connect in the community there. 😊

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@SingingLady 

I had a great step counter I'd attach to my waistband to count steps.  Pretty accurate, but it got lost in a move.

How does something on your phone accurately count steps ... or is it an approximation?

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Probably similar to Fitbit. I have the Samsung health app and it has a step tracker that syncs with my phone. 

[Trinity11]

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@hckynutjohn wrote:

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

My life has been one diet after another. My Mother would NOT allow me to eat so that I would be skinny. I was skinny but also sick. When does it end? When I have finally crossed the bar and met my pilot face to face.

@Group 5 minus 1 

Usually I can decipher what the total context of a post means. So, you are placing blame on your Mother, have I got that right? I assume you are now well into adulthood.

Then you are "crossing some bar" nose to nose with a phantom pilot. Got it!!!  Yep, makes sense!

Guess I will keep blaming my long deceased(1969) mother for whatever problems arise in my life, that'll do it.

hckynut 🇺🇸

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Wow @hckynutjohn if ever I have seen a post misinterpreted on this board it is this one.😳

@Group 5 minus 1 described what is is a very common cause of a lifetime of disturbed eating patterns caused by food deprivation in childhood. I can totally relate because it sets up a lifetime struggle with food in general.

You have shared your own journey with issues and gotten a lot of sympathy. That's why claiming she is blaming her mom sounded insensitive. She was merely sharing the "source" of her issues with food. Unknowingly her mom and definitely mine too, "dieted" their child. It makes the natural course of hunger turn into issues with body image and for someone like myself never thin enough. Blame has nothing to do with it.🥺

[hckynutjohn]

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

@hckynutjohn Those diet buttons were installed when I was a child. I think you are being a little harsh w/me. The Pilot I am referring to is God and those lines are from"Crossing the Bar" by Tennyson. The poem ends w/"I hope to se my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar." It was one of Daddy's fav poems.

Men generally do not relate to being heavy (overweight) like women. I could go on and on about being so hungry and not being permitted to eat,but I will end this posting.

@Group 5 minus 1 

Don't respond please! Diet buttons/men generally don't relate to being heavy/never heard of tennyson before. I can go on and on with my story.

Skinny as a rail till I got hit by a car when I was 9. About 3 months later I was 20lbs heavier. And thus the beginning of "the fat kid" starting in 6th grade. Worked as a car hop starting at 12. My nickname? Roundy(ie) was my name there for a few years.

Played in high school band, but they only had 1 uniform big enough to fit me. Had to wait for that fat senior to graduate. I was a freshman.

Worked at a Drive-in restaurant! Ideal place to lose weight, rite? Hello! What girl is going to date fatso over there? None that I knew. Managed to drop almost 60lbs in spite of those fat buttons inside me. Yea! Just in time to legally drive an no longer, fatso over there or Roundy(ie).

I don't work out! I get compositionally fat, per Submersion Fat/Muscle Composition Testing. Scale weight? Don't care. Body Composition, tells it all.

Bye now,

hckynut(john)🥅🏒 🇺🇸

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[hckynutjohn]

@Trinity11 

My childhood history? Skinny to fat. Fat to thin. My mothers fault! No, my fault. Wrote part of my story to the author of the post you referenced.

I won't get onto Psychology here, but that appears what this is suppose to mean with "fat buttons".  People now physically healthy that wish to place Psychological blame on their childhood? Fine with me. While it may be a Psychological problem, it is much better than having a genetically related one.

Genetics you cannot change. Psychology  can be changed, or improved, the same as an addiction. 1 day at a time. 

I prefer using direct words, not pilot or buttons. If people don't understand my direct words? Usually I say "ask me", I don't assume they get all the terminology I throw around. 

Get into higher learning poetry? Probably lose me. Talk in real life language? Doubtful I will get lost.

Sorry my friend, I don't agree. When one makes reference to their mother and childhood ruining their whole life? They can keep selling it, but I ain't buying.

hckynut(john)🥅🏒 🇺🇸

[Group 5 minus 1]

Trinity11: Thank you for your reply. You really understand. Goes a long way.

[paixmcdao]

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

Trinity11: Thank you for your reply. You really understand. Goes a long way.

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There are many people who understand. Take support from those who do, because the rest is just noise.