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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
I get what is being said about the numbers game and the fact is that it is indeed true that my weight loss came when I started counting every damn calorie I eat. I have done that for just about every meal that I have cooked for two years now. So, yes, it is true that even for me it is about the number of calories I eat but it is also about what makes up those calories. If I eat things with fast burning sugars I can stay within my calorie allowance and my weight will start to push up. If I eat the exact same calories of slow burning (low gi) foods it goes down.
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Sarah, i have the deepest respect for someone going through what you are going through. i've been there. i've done it. i know hard it is. I think its a tremendous tragedy that people can be so dismissive of your efforts and achievements and start saying "oh.. well, its a medical thing" when it just isn't.
Its only when you actually sit down, write everything down. plan out meals. plan out your total calories, total grams of fat, carbs and protein for the day and start paying attention does everything come into focus. and your right, where you are getting those calories does matter. the glycemic index is important in terms of controlling hunger and maintaining energy levels within the strict number of calories you eat in a day.
For me, its horrible that people won't do what you're doing. They'll buy pills. They'll buy crappy "seen it on tv" ab machines or whatever. but they won't actually try. they won't try because there is not a quick fix. an easy fix an a fix that doesn't require extraordinary determination, focus and discipline and its horrible that we live in a world where people are so quick to adopt excuses and basically demand that everyone accept that their bodies defy the unbreakable laws of physics (energy in vs energy out)
You've managed to do something that so very few have the strength of character to do and i think that's amazing. I think people like you, doing what you are doing should be what people point to. rather than the ever so elusive, ambiguous and vague "medical condition". the world would truly be a better place if people were just as quick to say "well... look at what Sarah achieved, i guess it is possible"