Posted by Meri-Tuuli on November 8, 2006, at 4:59:33
In reply to Re: Oprah convinced me to try a diet » Meri-Tuuli, posted by Lindenblüte on November 7, 2006, at 18:16:03
> What's Tilia?
Hehehe, my new name for you (latin for the genus you belong to - Lindens!). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia
> I wonder if you live in a metropolis? any big parks? Any lakes? ponds nearby?
Hmmm, what they call 'cities' here in Finland would probably be a town in America. Its around 100,000 inhabitants. Yeah Finland is pretty sparsely populated so there's loads of nature and trails and things. I'm just too lazy!
> Near me there is a park where they groom a nice long loop (15km?) and they actually have volunteers to light candles in the evenings on Saturday and Sunday when it gets dark so early. heck. it's the afternoon. isn't that romantic? skiing through quiet nature by candlelight?
Wow, that sounds really nice!!!! Man, I like it in America, you seem to have so much volunteer things...here in Europe people expect the state to take care of you, rather than having tons of volunteers etc. Here the trails are lighted by the council with overhead lamps, which isn't so nice!!
> we only have to be good dieters about 70-90% of the time. Perfection is not a good goal. So, I'll try and be a B+ dieter.
Yes its soo true, and I have only just started believeing in it! And another thing, if you do blow it one time, don't say to yourself, 'ooo Ill start on monday again, or I'll start tomorrow' - it means you'll end up bingeing more again if you see what I mean. I used to do this all the time!! And another thing, is if you have to have something, just wait half an hour or something and distract yourself. They ask yourself again after half an hour if you really fancy it still, and chances are, your powerful urge to eat said bad item will have dimished, and you can make a better choice, you can kinda say I chose to eat this now, but I realise the implications.....
Man, its easier said than done. Well, aim for 70%.
Yeah thre was this interesting programme I saw this summer about all those 'Miss Weight watcher' and 'Slimmer of the year' people - apparently something like 70% regained all the weight they had lost (and they were the ones being championed for all their weight loss!). Which is incrediable. Actually, my cousin is a lecturer in clinial nutrition and she did her phd on this very subject - its easy to lose weight but keeping it off is the hardest part. Anyway thats why I think getting the correct thinking in place is essential. I hope thats not too gloomy! But I mean tht diet book seems very good, it goes into all this stuff.
Kind regards
Meri-Tuuli
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