fatness

Did you know that when you gain more than 20-30 pounds, you actually gain more fat cells, the existing ones don't just fill up more. But when you lose weight, those new fat cells are still there, they don't go away. So losing weight is not as easy as gaining weight, and for women, I think it is much harder than it is for men. Those fat cells are just waiting to be refilled. I am not saying that the obese people of the world should not lose weight, they should especially for their health. I am just saying the rest of us who are more normal weight should not treat them like they are a plague. Just have some compassion, losing weight is hard, keeping it off is harder. I talk regularly on the Weight Watchers boards. One woman has lost over 100 pounds, would like to lose 20 more, and she goes on plateaus for 6 months at a time where her body just won't budge even though she is doing all the right things including consulting a nutrionist to help her through it. If she did not have the resolve that she has, it would have been easy for her to give up a long time ago. Especially when one of her plateaus was at 200 pounds. I work with a woman who is discouraged with her weight, but I don't think she mentally has gotten prepared to lose. She often gives in to poor choices in food, is easily swayed by the office sweets laying around. She just has not built up the resistance needed to change her eating habits. She has a lot of health issues and would probably be better off 100 pounds lighter, but mentally I don't think she is ready to take that journey. When I lost my weight, it took lots of energy and sticktoitofness. It still takes that to keep off weight, and aging only makes it worse. For whatever reason, some people don't have the confidence and support to lose weight. It is not an easy task.

Did you know that when you gain more than 20-30 pounds, you actually gain more fat cells, the existing ones don't just fill up more. But when you lose weight, those new fat cells are still there, they don't go away. So losing weight is not as easy as gaining weight, and for women, I think it is much harder than it is for men. Those fat cells are just waiting to be refilled. I am not saying that the obese people of the world should not lose weight, they should especially for their health. I am just saying the rest of us who are more normal weight should not treat them like they are a plague. Just have some compassion, losing weight is hard, keeping it off is harder. I talk regularly on the Weight Watchers boards. One woman has lost over 100 pounds, would like to lose 20 more, and she goes on plateaus for 6 months at a time where her body just won't budge even though she is doing all the right things including consulting a nutrionist to help her through it. If she did not have the resolve that she has, it would have been easy for her to give up a long time ago. Especially when one of her plateaus was at 200 pounds. I work with a woman who is discouraged with her weight, but I don't think she mentally has gotten prepared to lose. She often gives in to poor choices in food, is easily swayed by the office sweets laying around. She just has not built up the resistance needed to change her eating habits. She has a lot of health issues and would probably be better off 100 pounds lighter, but mentally I don't think she is ready to take that journey. When I lost my weight, it took lots of energy and sticktoitofness. It still takes that to keep off weight, and aging only makes it worse. For whatever reason, some people don't have the confidence and support to lose weight. It is not an easy task.