TheBanyanTree: Weight Loss Schemes

[Teague, Julie Anna]

You have spoken directly to me with this one, Monique.  I say this 
quite often, "I'm starving!"  And when I hear that phrase come out of 
my mouth in a moment of being ever so slightly uncomfortable because I 
haven't eaten IN A FEW HOURS, then I remember that I have never 
experienced starvation a day in my life. Not one single day.  I've felt 
hungry, but not hunger.  It makes me think deeply on this situation.  
It makes me want to do something, anything, to fix the broken world in 
which I always have plenty and someone else never has enough, and we 
are both human beings deserving of food and water and warmth and 
safety.  I have no answers here.  I just echo your thoughts.  Thanks 
for sharing them.



Quoting Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com>:

> At a time when I'm concerned about the bigger picture, which is access to
> good food for people everywhere, since a lot of people, a lot of Americans
> too, don't have access, I'm also finding myself focusing on what I eat, or
> don't eat, and this is with a fridge full of food.
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> We've got everything in there.
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> My most hungry moment has been when I've forgotten to eat, and I say
> something like, "I'm starving!" to my long suffering husband, when the
> truth is, I wouldn't have a clue what that's like. And I know it, but we
> all use terms hyperbolically, at least most of us, if you'd like to be left
> out of that statement.
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> "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." That's just wrong, unless you're into
> that. I try to be inclusive.
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> "I'm starving." Are you really? Probably not. If you were, I'd be happy to
> get you something, so just let me know.
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> But many people are starving, or are eating a diet without nutrients,
> because that's what they have available. I am not one of those people. I
> never have been. I doubt I will ever be because I have a level of luck that
> follows me around like a bright shiny cloud.
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> And many of us who are not in those situations want to lose just a few
> pounds, or many pounds. It's like the work thing, except worse. The work
> thing is that so many people are unemployed, and yet many people I know
> work all the time, they work constantly, they do the work of several people
> because of cuts in staffing, they do the work of several because they're
> trying to provide a living for their families and feed them.
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> I don't know what to do with these disparities.
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> In the past few months I lost close to ten pounds, mostly because I was
> eating less.
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> Actually, all because I was eating less. It certainly wasn't my increased
> level of exercise, because there wasn't any. But eating could be
> problematic, so I cut down, and weight went away.
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> Last week I had an organ removed. A small insignificant organ, but still,
> it was a whole one. Yesterday I got on the scale for the first time since
> then and found another five pounds had gone away since Friday.
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> FIVE POUNDS! And all I've been doing is laying around being useless.
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> I'm thinking my little gall bladder was bigger than I had suspected.
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> Of course, I haven't been eating much, because I don't want to upset the
> delicate balance my digestive system is striving to attain. Sometimes when
> I eat I have discomfort.
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> And still, my fridge is full of food. Today I received a gift of fruit,
> which was awesome, even with all the food in the fridge, because fresh
> fruit is not something we currently have on hand.
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> So 15 pounds down, no signs of starvation in my future, a fridge full of
> food, and I'll eat because I get hungry, and I'll mostly eat well, and if I
> don't, it's my own fault. It's not because I don't have access to good
> food, it's because I don't make good decisions.
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> I have access to great food and I don't want it because I might have
> discomfort.
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> And that's my first world problem. I don't know what it's like to be hungry
> with no chance of food, so this is all I have to talk about. An ache in my
> stomach that will likely go away any time now.
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> Needed weight loss, because let's face it, I was too fat anyway.
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> A life of privilege.
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