Re:Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
by DoreenMichele on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:11AM
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I think all that suggests is that we do poor a job of helping specific individuals pinpoint the root cause of obesity for them.
I have lost multiple dress sizes without trying to do so. I finally got the right diagnosis in my thirties, "a better name for my problem than crazy", and changed my diet in accordance with medical recommendations.
I was 245 pounds for at least three years. I haven't weighed myself in upwards of a decade but I've likely finally dropped back below 180 pounds this year. I say that based on no longer feeling like "a beached whale" who has trouble getting up out of a chair and past experience with where that point occurs for me in terms of weight.
I imagine the minority who do solve it likely don't really talk much about what actually worked for them and why they think it worked. I have gotten insane amounts of ugly pushback for trying to talk about what works for me and my opinions about my own life and body and medical condition.
If you have any sense, you find what works for you and keep your trap shut so the "crabs" don't rip your arms off. Unfortunately that means the other 85 percent don't get to hear "calorie counting might just be a broken mental model and seems largely unrelated to what worked for me" and that leaves a whole lot of people stranded behind our current broken mental models because it's not socially acceptable to say "Well, that doesn't fit my experience. Here's what I think about my own life and maybe we can work out better mental models."
I have lost multiple dress sizes without trying to do so. I finally got the right diagnosis in my thirties, "a better name for my problem than crazy", and changed my diet in accordance with medical recommendations.
I was 245 pounds for at least three years. I haven't weighed myself in upwards of a decade but I've likely finally dropped back below 180 pounds this year. I say that based on no longer feeling like "a beached whale" who has trouble getting up out of a chair and past experience with where that point occurs for me in terms of weight.
I imagine the minority who do solve it likely don't really talk much about what actually worked for them and why they think it worked. I have gotten insane amounts of ugly pushback for trying to talk about what works for me and my opinions about my own life and body and medical condition.
If you have any sense, you find what works for you and keep your trap shut so the "crabs" don't rip your arms off. Unfortunately that means the other 85 percent don't get to hear "calorie counting might just be a broken mental model and seems largely unrelated to what worked for me" and that leaves a whole lot of people stranded behind our current broken mental models because it's not socially acceptable to say "Well, that doesn't fit my experience. Here's what I think about my own life and maybe we can work out better mental models."