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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:38 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:13 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:37 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:17 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:22 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:38 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:00 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:38 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:28 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:29 am
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I posted the Good Health Guidelines, published by Weight Watchers, in the Weight Watchers Discussion thread. If you follow those, you'll get healthy. When you're healthy, your body gets rid of things that aren't healthy (like, for example, excess weight). smile They really do work. Following those guidelines, I've lost 45 pounds, which means I'm over halfway to my goal weight.
About the "you're fat" comments:
Instead of taking them as a value judgement, such as "You're fat... and that's bad," take them as a medical assessment:"You're fat. That is, your body has a higher percentage of fat than is healthy for you." After all, they're calling you fat, which is a medical fact -- but they're not (I sincerely hope) calling you ugly, or mean, or stupid. They're just stating a scientifically measurable or observable fact. Are you brown-eyed, tall, right-handed? Those are facts that may be true of you, and stating them doesn't hurt you.
Are you asthmatic, epileptic, allergic to peanuts? Those are medical facts that may also be true about you -- and while they do sometimes cause physical discomfort or danger to you, they aren't a value judgement. They're simply one more part of who you are. Something to look after, and something to use as a reason to take especial notice of when you're making decisions that could affect your medical conditions -- asthma/exercise, epileptic (medications), allergic (diet). Those are the same things you'll be looking after to take care of your other medical condition of being overweight.
Say it with me: I am beautiful, intelligent, fat, talented, honest, compassionate, thoughtful, right/left-handed, blonde/brunette/redhead... Fat is just one quality among many that can make up a person. Saying you're fat may hurt you, but if you claim it as simply another facet to you, and one that you are perfectly capable of changing in order to become healthier, it stings less.
(Of course, when confronted with "You're fat," you could also resort to the smart-aleck answer: "Yes, and you're ugly, but I've been nice enough not to say so.")
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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