why I don't diet

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> Thanks! Now to be honest - does one have to do a diet at all??

 

 

I can't speak for anyone else, and I know some people, notably

diabetics,

who really do have medical reasons for needing to lose weight (though

not as many as some under-informed or plain size-bigoted doctors think.)

 

 

But if you read the last 25 years' research, you find that the average

fat

person (I hate the word " overweight " --it's a judgment no one should make

for anyone else) is neither unhealthy, underactive nor an overeater.

You also find that, statistically, diets make people heavier, not

lighter,

because the body reponds to a diet as it (rightly) would have to a

famine in our ancestors' time--by becoming more efficient metabolically,

so as to be able to store fat for the next famine. And it does this

every

time one diets.

 

Believe me, I tried 'em all, especially the low-carb ones. I did the

Atkins

diet for two years, and temporarily lost a lot of weight. I also got

arthritis

way, way early, because what Atkins didn't talk about is that low-carb

diets raise the uric acid level in the blood, and over time that can do

joint

damage.

 

Finally, 20 years ago, I personally said the hell with dieting. I am a

lady

of size, and happy to be so. I eat healthy most of the time, and enjoy

my splurges without guilt. I've decided I'd much rather change our

weightist culture than my body. And if the body bigots don't like it,

they can just bleepin' well not look. :-)

 

Blessings of the Venus of Willendorf,

Rain

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