Re: Getting fit creates mental/social time

[Guest guest]

If you want to keep succeeding I don't think you get any less

obsessed. To do so might mean relaxing some standards that

are " working. " Being obsessed is a good thing.

Stasia

[Guest guest]

> Like, say, me and probably dozens of other women here? :-)

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BINGO! Me, too! I've never really struggled with weight issues,

more like being skinny fat. But I still have the same mental

struggles.

Colleen

[Guest guest]

This is a strange concept for me. Before I started BFL, I hardly EVER

gave any thought to food. I had some vague ideas about what was bad

(fast food, deep-fried things, most salad dressings, etc), but I

didn't devote too much time to worrying about it. I wasn't

dangerously or even too noticeably overweight, and I've never cared

too much about what other people thought of me as long as I was happy

with myself, so that probably was another factor in my blissful

ignorance.

I saved my nitpicking, anal-retentive tendencies for my personal

finances and my computer/scripting/code-related hobbies.

When I started doing BFL seriously, though, I transferred some of my

OCD habits over from my monthly financial budget to my weekly food and

exercise calorie budget! I think I was completely, annoyingly

obsessed for at least 6 weeks because when I start something new, I

*MUST* know *EVERYTHING* about it, inside and out, down to the very

last details. (Can you tell that I was an overachieving academic

grind in school?) Now that I've got the food thing down pat, though,

I'm easing off again.

As BFL becomes a true routine in my life vs. a series of " challenge "

events, I hope to eventually reduce the times I mention the words

" protein powder " and " cardio " in regular conversation to less than two

times a day.

Maggie

Re: Getting fit creates mental/social time

> Like, say, me and probably dozens of other women here? :-)

>

>

BINGO! Me, too! I've never really struggled with weight issues,

more like being skinny fat. But I still have the same mental

struggles.

Colleen

[Guest guest]

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> Of course, 's all fit and lean and I'm not sure she's any less

> obsessed, so maybe it doesn't work that way?

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Take it from me, no matter how skinny and fit you get you always feel

like you could improve. I can be a good thing if it keeps you

motivated to work-out and eat healthy, as long as you don't get too

obsessed. I am not sure what needs to take place psychologically to

accept your body for what it is. I am working through that myself.

I need to comprehend the fact that I am skinny and fit. The positive

is that I stick to BFL eating (so I eat plenty of healthy food) and I

work-out 5 days a week. I hate to miss a work-out.