tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post296134121134894029..comments2023-06-14T05:30:03.404-07:00Comments on My CRON experiment: Back to life, back to realitySarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10589360738483629810noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-19208488950434577572007-07-23T08:52:00.000-07:002007-07-23T08:52:00.000-07:00More pictures!!!;-DMore pictures!!!<BR/><BR/>;-DDeborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05712807540726512236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-59849198527208062052007-07-23T05:23:00.000-07:002007-07-23T05:23:00.000-07:00Sara,Happy birthday! I would love more wedding pi...Sara,<BR/><BR/>Happy birthday! I would love more wedding pictures!<BR/><BR/>More on the other stuff soon... gotta run to work.<BR/><BR/>You share a birthday with my best friend's youngest son. Awwwww... very good day.<BR/><BR/>aAprilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17869543039583537245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-61751587820300038452007-07-23T04:04:00.000-07:002007-07-23T04:04:00.000-07:00Hi Robin...Unfortunately I suspect it is the latte...Hi Robin...<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately I suspect it is the latter... He sees me as too thin, and obsessed with counting calories and so on. I've tried to explain that I personally count calories and now weigh and measure when I can because I've learnt that if I don't I don't eat <EM>enough</EM>. It is unfortunate also that I do not perceive myself to be thin, and have taken to use the phrase "Fat fat fat" to express all kinds of emotional and personal disatisfactions when they occur. I've sort of dug myself into a pit and made a none too comfortable bed in it to lie in with that one. :-)<BR/><BR/>I recognise his concern because he loves me and is concerned about me and doesn't want to lose me early to some "Karen Carpenter heart attack", as it he put it the other day. And obviously I don't want that to happen either, which is rather the point. Altogther it's all a rather fraught and murky issue tied up with all kinds of things in my past and his, as these things tend to be. Hey ho, things will work out one way or another!<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your comments!Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589360738483629810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-75085788788696052852007-07-23T03:20:00.000-07:002007-07-23T03:20:00.000-07:00Hi Sara,Harry Potter: Yes, I agree about the last ...Hi Sara,<BR/><BR/>Harry Potter: Yes, I agree about the last chapter. Also, I think she tried a little too hard to wrap up each and every story line. But for the most part, it was a fun read.<BR/><BR/>P's issues: There's plenty of science to back you up when it comes to avoiding things like white rice, white bread and non-whole-grain pasta. That's not specific to CRON, either. Every book I've ever read on healthy eating says to cut those things out. <BR/><BR/>I think the question is this: Does P feel concerned because he thinks you're hurting yourself physically or does he feel that CRON is mentally unhealthy? If it's the former, showing him the science behind CRON might help. If it's the latter, I doubt the science will sway his opinion. This is what I learned in my endless debates with Mara on Rudd Sound Bites. It doesn't help to prove that CRON leads to improved physical health if the person you're talking to thinks this "fixation" on healthy eating is, itself, mentally unhealthy. I hope I'm making sense.<BR/><BR/>RRobinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02198930135149227434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-6215275969153584842007-07-22T22:15:00.000-07:002007-07-22T22:15:00.000-07:00Of course we would love some more photos!Luckily m...Of course we would love some more photos!<BR/><BR/>Luckily my husband is very supportive of my choices. But even I can become a little 'awkward' :) at times. <BR/><BR/>Sometimes getting the balance is challenging, and like you I also have moments when I doubt the clarity of my motivations.<BR/><BR/>But talking about these things openinly and questioning yourself honestly is the best way to approach it I think.Mizpah Matushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10857392492172698335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-20783663401330291362007-07-22T14:27:00.000-07:002007-07-22T14:27:00.000-07:00Happy Birthday! :-)I've never tried explaining CRO...Happy Birthday! :-)<BR/><BR/>I've never tried explaining CRON with the 'CRON' label to other people. I just tell them that I am trying to eat more nutritious foods. I simply tell those who ask that 'I don't eat rice', or 'I can't eat pasta' or 'unfortunately bread doesn't agree with me' and they seem to accept that more readily than 'I'm on a calorie restricted, optimal nutrition diet' which they can then pick apart with their oh-so dreary reasoning about how brown bread is healthy. <BR/><BR/>My flatmates find the weighing thing a little unusual though they don't seem to care. My boyfriend gets slightly more concerned because he gets to see me when I'm annoyed at myself for eating something nutritionally useless or when I'm being ultra-choosy trying to find out which restaurants might serve something I can eat. He does sometimes question whether I have an eating disorder. It's hard for him to understand though because with his caloric requirements he can easily eat restaurant portions of risottos, cheese and pizzas and appears to be able to lose weight just by willing it so!<BR/><BR/>Btw - how do you manage to walk around Borough market without consuming half a pound of cheese and sausage? I have to carefully avoid the stall with the brick-sized chocolate brownies.JDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751998938214351562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-85667338922503707042007-07-22T14:20:00.000-07:002007-07-22T14:20:00.000-07:00Hi SaraMore pictures, please!Cheers,ArturoHi Sara<BR/>More pictures, please!<BR/>Cheers,<BR/>ArturoArturohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10971352220152467379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-43253193719276657362007-07-22T12:40:00.000-07:002007-07-22T12:40:00.000-07:00Hello Emily! We miss you. :-) Very good to know...Hello Emily! We miss you. :-) Very good to know you are still around. Happy birthday to you! I hope you are well and happy and healthy.<BR/><BR/>I had my bone density checked in 2006 (or it might have been 2005!) - and it was fine. I was advised to take D and calcium, which I do, and I'll save up to have it checked again next year. Unfortunately my reasonably consistently low weight over the past fifteen years and refusal to take hormones to, um, correct the side-effecthave been written up as stubborn disordered thinking in my medical records and any request on my part for check-ups is met with "eat some pies, woman"... which is not entirely helpful, not least because "eating pies" made no difference whatsover. :-)Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589360738483629810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-67392756836069806762007-07-22T12:27:00.000-07:002007-07-22T12:27:00.000-07:00Hi Sara - we have the same birthday! Maybe you cou...Hi Sara - we have the same birthday! <BR/><BR/>Maybe you could get your health checked out by a doctor to show P that CR is benefiting, not hurting you. If you're not menstruating, you might want to get your bone density checked out as well.<BR/><BR/>But really I'm commenting to say that July 21 is definitely the perfect day for a birthday :)<BR/><BR/>(I still read everyone, even though my blog is gone for various reasons).Emi at Project Swatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684031816667739733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-83961497476864578922007-07-22T10:55:00.000-07:002007-07-22T10:55:00.000-07:00Hi Robin...I liked the latest Harry Potter as much...Hi Robin...<BR/><BR/>I liked the latest Harry Potter as much as I liked the others; which is to say that they are a guilty pleasure. I don't think that JK Rowling is a particularly talented writer and sometimes her prose just makes me wince, but she came up with some fabulously detailed (albeit derivative) ideas and all kudos to her for making of them what she did. She's made a legend for herself, and that's truly wonderful and inspiring.<BR/><BR/>I really thought the last chapter, or epilogue, was an error of authorial / editorial judgement though! What about you?<BR/><BR/>P doesn't deny I eat healthily. He does think, however, that carbohydrates need to come from bread, or pasta, or rice, and because I eschew those on a normal day-to-day basis (although not this week and am I feeling it!??) and get my carbs from veggies (and a LOT of them, I never did get the Zone thing right), that I am setting myself up for health problems. That, and the weighing of food. I think it's the weighing that's got him freaked out more than anything else.<BR/><BR/>I hope if he reads some of the science behind the theory he will be more sympathetic. But of course he wants <EM>proof</EM> - and there is none.Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589360738483629810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913431369918059916.post-62293047591580874762007-07-22T10:39:00.000-07:002007-07-22T10:39:00.000-07:00Hi Sara,Happy (belated) Birthday! How did you like...Hi Sara,<BR/><BR/>Happy (belated) Birthday! <BR/>How did you like Harry Potter? <BR/><BR/>As for EDs and CRON, did you read Emi's excellent post on this? It might help to show P what she had to say. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I understand why people who don't know much about CRON can get concerned. When anyone close to me expresses concern about my weight, I choose to see it as a manifestation of their love - they care about me and want to make sure I'm not hurting myself. I'm sure that's what's motivating P in your situation as well.<BR/><BR/>It's really kind of sweet when you think of it that way.<BR/><BR/>RRobinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02198930135149227434noreply@blogger.com