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.

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[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

You're right. [sigh] She doesn't make the compromises, and keeps giving up the small gains and lapses into eating chocolates, cake, and so on.

The worst of it is, she puts on weight which makes her lose self esteem, then lack of self esteem means she gives up trying, and also leads to "comfort-eating".

I feel completely helpless. Like watching an accident about to happen and being unable to intervene.