God - here we go again;
Can't even be arsed to write it all again So here is a post from a previous thread;
I do not eat between meals, and do not eat enormous portions. I do not have binges, I do not eat fried foods, I have cooked low fat meals for around 20 years or so, I do not have any emotional problems, I do not eat unless I am hungry. Sometimes, on days when I am very busy, I even forget to eat and it's only when my DH comes in and I comment how crap I feel that he asks what I've eaten today - that I realise that I haven't actually eaten.
My DD's, although once thin are now starting to increase in size very quickly, they are both around the age that I was when my weight started to increase dramatically. My DS eats for bloody England and is over 6ft tall and skinny. My GS, is the only 5 year old that runs round the supermarket pestering for things like broccoli or boxes of raisins instead of sweets. On going through some old family photo's, I found pictures of my great grandmother (in her mid 40's)who I am the spitting image of (size and all) - the likeness is unbelievable and her grandmother who was also very big. Both women were thin until their early 20's and obviously neither had access to todays types of foods. So it would seem that the 'fat' gene is inherent in the female side of my family.
I was thin (not skinny) up to 26 years ago when I went on the pill. I gained 6 stones in 6 months and was taken off it - thats where my weight gain started. I have been on just about every 'diet' that you can name. Three times, over those years I have joined 'weightwatchers' type groups - I lost exactly 3 stones and gained between five and six back on coming off the diet. I have done 'online' dieting, and following the diet plans exactly, managed to gain weight both times. I have kept eating diaries that people think are 'made-up', I have twice participated in research to see how little I have to eat before losing any weight (one hospital based where everything I ate was monitored for a fortnight), I did not lose weight in either. However, last year I was on was the Cambridge diet, and I did loose over 40lbs in a couple of weeks and then the weight loss just stopped - I could not lose a pound more, I persevered with it and nothing else would shift. I have since regained that weight plus another 10lbs.
I now do more exercise than I have since I left school (28 years ago) yet am still growing widthways.
I am so sick of the smug thin people and wonder how they would feel if one of the people close to them was obese and verbally abused or patronised in the street (or on the internet), shouted at from passing cars, turned down for jobs simply on the basis of the way they looked, ignored when moving to a new area, looked at as if they were something that had been trod in, asked why their DH's are with them when the DH could have someone better (read thinner), or turned down for medical treatment just because they are overweight.
When I posted the stuff above I was actively participating in 4 hour long aqua aerobic sessions a week and two 1 & 1/2 hour swim sessions. I still do that and now also use the treadmill for 30 mins a day every day; exercise bike for 20 mins every day in addition to the two mile walk to school and back twice a day - 5 days a week; at weekends we all do a 7 mile walk to the beach on saturdays and a 4 mile walk on sundays(and not including everything else I do that is not specifically planned exercise) every day. I still have not lost a f*cking pound. SO please don't patronise me with "...have you exercised, ate smaller portions,..." rubbish underpinned by assumptons that all fat people sit stuffing their faces with enormous mounds of greasy fried food and cream buns all day long.