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Vultaire wrote:Hello anyone who happens to see this. For my health and for my family.
Vultaire wrote:Hello anyone who happens to see this. And as a first post giving some history, this will be a little long-winded and rambly as I try to summarize my story up until now into a few paragraphs. Skip to the end if you just want to see a chart of my progress and where I am now.
Welcome, Paul. I read your whole post. You did a great job summarizing your story.Then I moved back to the States, and saw how easy it is to get fat here compared to over there.
What, from your experience, actually makes it easier to get fat here compared to Japan, especially since you mentioned eating Japanese junk food caused you to gain weight while you were there? I would love for you to expand on the differences, if you don't mind.There was also the problem of me having too much initial success - I got overconfident and let myself revert back to old habits, because of course I could get the weight off again...
Why do we do this to ourselves!? This is one bad thinking habit that I've had to work on letting go of; it really makes no sense! It's interesting to step outside of ourselves and see, from an outside perspective, the crazy ideas our mind will convince us of in order to stop us from making changes.I've got a number of challenges ahead - my tendency to get bounced off diet in one way or another due to special occasions and the like, and my spouse's cooking, which I love - and which is healthier than the typical American diet (she's Japanese) - but which still uses more oil and animal products than I'd like.
One thing I do when I'm not in control of my food, I use napkins to soak up as much oil as I can. So, before you serve yourself something that your wife has made, maybe you can place a paper towel on your plate and then place the food on top of the paper towel so that it can help to absorb some of the excess oil?? Just a thought. Maybe your wife, seeing you go to such lengths to improve you health, will feel compelled to use less oil, or not oil, in order to help make it easier for you.So - Nice to meet you all, and wish me luck. I'm gonna make this happen, whatever it takes. For my health and for my family.
deweyswakms wrote:Progress not perfection; you have momentum on your side now. I tend to do the same thing: too much initial success" I have lost lots of weight and gotten healthy blood work. Yet it is very easy to get complacent and think a little of this, of that, is OK now. But it isn't, for me.
Have you listened to Dr. Lisle and The Pleasure Trap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX2btaDOBK8
Susan5 wrote:What, from your experience, actually makes it easier to get fat here compared to Japan, especially since you mentioned eating Japanese junk food caused you to gain weight while you were there? I would love for you to expand on the differences, if you don't mind.
Ejeff wrote:Once you have success through consistency it will be easier for your spouse to join you. If she consumes diary it is likely triggering her migraines. My daughter had migraines several times a week, now she has zero.
Susan5 wrote:Maybe your wife, seeing you go to such lengths to improve you health, will feel compelled to use less oil, or not oil, in order to help make it easier for you.
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