Guest guest Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 > I'm revisiting 's letter... this time about " ruts " . Keltie wrote......... > When I start fretting about having to lose weight, it seems like the most impossible task... and for some reason, I tend to gain weight when I start worrying about hitting a goal weight, or re-losing any gained weight. > Still trying to figure it out... ------------ When I had to revisit the " rut " period of loosing back a gain due to really bad habits and began my whole period of fretting over it -- I too held the impossible task of knowing... what do I do? -- Since even my gaining period was a " rut " of sorts (bad rut!!!) I had to leave it and find the " rut " that worked previously, revamp it to fit my body needs now and create a new (from the old...) " rut " where my body was willing to let the pounds go -- slowly this time... much more slowly and that made it harder to believe it would EVER happen but it did -- The other thing that made it harder during that loosing " rut " was having to look forward to the next " rut " which would be the maintaining " rut " and plan in advance for it. The " ruts " take planning -- my personal " rut " has to be heart healthy and the old heart healthy rut that used to work was not working any more so I had to use the foundation of that " rut " -- protein/pills - pills/protein -- and begin my planning for the new " rut " of foods that could be added back to maintain the heart healthy, the level of less exercise for right now (just because that is where I am...) and even now... I know I will get back to the gym and to my daily Yoga practice and I'll have to re-learn a new " rut " that provides for enough calories and protein to burn when the time comes. Just to say the ruts don't just happen -- they are well thought out for me to make sure they are " healthy " ruts and then incorporated into the daily life so that the " thoughts " of food dissipate and life activities can come forward once again and I " Get a Life... " All just to say the ruts are my comfort zone and I'd rather be in a rut than thinking about food daily but the ruts do require a lot of pre-thought so that they become " healthy " ruts that are comfortable and don't lend to any anxiety about... am I feeding my body what it needs to be heart healthy? To exercise at this level (when I get that back...) to have food for fuel to run my body and a ton of other questions that all have to fit into that " rut " so that once it is discovered -- the rut that works... then the rest of those thoughts don't have to be addressed daily or even weekly... unless something changes then all is well in my little rut ~smile~ hugz, ~denise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 In a message dated 1/21/03 12:49:30 AM Central Standard Time, kabachelor@... writes: << for some reason, I tend to gain weight when I start worrying about hitting a goal weight, or re-losing any gained weight. >> ------------------------ It's called stress, and stress will make you gain weight, or at least keep you from losing any. Carol A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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