weight and spoken thinking

[miriam_e]

I was chatting with an old friend last night. She was concerned about her weight. She tends to have meat at every meal and eats a lot of sweets. She knows my views on sweets so I left that alone, but instead suggested she go easy on the meat, perhaps cutting back to once a week. She replied that she'd heard meat doesn't put on weight; starch does. I thought for a moment and asked her where were all the overweight vegetarians and skinny butchers then?

Interesting. I'd never really thought about it till I said it. Isn't it weird that you can hold information in your head but never connect it till it escapes your mouth. Often I can resolve a problem simply by talking to someone about it. The other person doesn't even need to really listen; just the act of explaining it seems to make new connections in the brain. We are such strange creatures.

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I don't think Margaret eats much dairy food. That lowers her options. She does eat yoghurt though, and she should curtail that. When I was ill the last couple of years and the doctor was worried about me being too thin (I've always been skinny) she suggested eating more yoghurt because that stacks on the weight.

Unfortunately Margaret inherited a tendency to have blood clots so she's on warfarin, which is a very scary drug, but still better than dying of a blood clot. Because of the warfarin she is limited in the vegetables she can eat -- nothing with a lot of vitamin K... which is a heck of a lot of vegetables. Poor thing. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't eat all the veges I do.

Also she is on other medication which makes her tired and hungry all the time -- a really bad combination.

My heart goes out to her.

[dorjejaguar.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that's pretty harsh. I hope she can find something that works for her.