Bad advice for weight loss from the onion

[Betticus]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40998

 

[Miss Diva]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40998

a dead link?

 

[graceanne]

a dead link?

It used to work. It's just some asshole telling women to starve themselves till they're sexy and then to start eating a little more, cause they're making themselves to skinny. He evidently wants em pretty skinny, cause he called that 'plus size' :rollseyes: model, kate what's her name, a fat cow. (Plus size my ass.)

 

[brioche]

Kate Winslet.
And the link worked fine for me.
If there are pro-anorexia sites out there there has to be this.
And come on, it's the Onion!

 

[graceanne]

Kate Winslet.
And the link worked fine for me.
If there are pro-anorexia sites out there there has to be this.
And come on, it's the Onion!

His face looks chubby to me. I think he needs to loose some weight.

 

[Marquis]

His face looks chubby to me. I think he needs to loose some weight.

The Onion is a satire Grace.

 

[Guest]

 

[Marquis]

You know you're talking to a guy who knows he ate 2257 calories today, right?

 

[graceanne]

The Onion is a satire Grace.

Well as someone who's been friends with several anorexics, I don't find it humerous.

And I know what satire means, Marquis. There's nothing wrong with my vocabulary.

 

[brioche]

i have had issues in the past. Each time i have managed to get myself back from that line. Once, i told a psychiatrist that i had made myself throw up and it wasn't that that scared me, it was seeing the possibility of this occurring with increasing regularity. He told me that was healthy (the fear). i wish at times that it was healthy to stop eating altogether, like abstaining from alcohol for an alcoholic, but it's not.
it's not really a matter that should be joked about, but you can always turn off the computer. i only have a problem with those who support it actively: Pro-ana sites, i think. Your life-threatening destructive behaviour is one thing, but encouraging it in another is - evil.

 

[Guest]

 

[Marquis]

Yep, I understand that you have lost a ton of weight to get yourself to a healthy body. I had to gain a bit to get there... give it ten more years and I bet the number of male anorexis will equal females. For the first time in a century men are suffering under the same onslaught of "perfect" body images as women. It takes a mental toll.

edited to add: And I think we're already seeing a great deal of it in the rise of incidents of steroid usage among teen males.

As I've understood it, most psychiatrists believe the problem of anorexia stems from an obsessive need to have control over your diet. Although it is motivated by the desire to lose weight, the obsession takes on a life of its own and becomes an uncontrollable compulsion beyond any recognizable goal.

I wouldn't consider myself anorexic, but I will admit I take a strange comfort in controlling what I eat. I feel REALLY guilty when I stray from my usual diet, and I'll admit that I even considered pulling a roman once after pigging out on a pint of Haagen-Dazs. All in all I think my habits are more healthy than unhealthy, but it would be nice to be more flexible. I can't seem to deviate from strictly healthful foods in moderation. I don't eat beef too often, but when I do, oh man, I gotta have a 16 ounce porterhouse.

I was at a wardrobe fitting for a fashion show the other day and the first pair of pants the director handed me were too tight. He asked me my waist size and made the most hilarious face you ever saw when I told him I was a 32-33.

I may not be able to totally empathize with the position that females are put in, but I think I have some idea.

 

[Marquis]

Well as someone who's been friends with several anorexics, I don't find it humerous.

And I know what satire means, Marquis. There's nothing wrong with my vocabulary.

Sorry, I'm having a grumpy day.

 

[graceanne]

Sorry, I'm having a grumpy day.

S' ok. I am too.

 

[Vixandra]

While I know the Onion is satire, I think that's a little too far. But, its a relatively free internet, let him post it.


Still, encouraging a woman to be anorexic but not "too anorexic" is like mocking a person from NOLA who survied about not reading the Oct 04 National Geographic and recalling it when the storm was approching. Both are just too twisted for me to see as humerous.

And honestly, I like women with meat on thier bones. Larger target

 

[Betticus]

I wouldn't consider myself anorexic, but I will admit I take a strange comfort in controlling what I eat. I feel REALLY guilty when I stray from my usual diet, and I'll admit that I even considered pulling a roman once after pigging out on a pint of Haagen-Dazs. All in all I think my habits are more healthy than unhealthy, but it would be nice to be more flexible. I can't seem to deviate from strictly healthful foods in moderation. I don't eat beef too often, but when I do, oh man, I gotta have a 16 ounce porterhouse.

For some reason I do feel better emotionally when I eat healthy. It is like I've accomplished something good at the end of the day. Much like the quitting smoking thing, when I'd go to bed I would think to myself that I did something good and I'd feel better about myself.

 

[Marquis]

The onion is fairly no holds barred. This doesnt even come close to its worst stuff. We're talking about a paper that made fun of September 11th on September 12th here. I thought this article was pretty funny.

 

[naughtygirl69s]

speaking of eating. I ONLY WISH I could gain that control. I occasionally have a good day or even a week, only to slip up and lose complete control again. Food is like a drug to me. If only I could just stop eating all-together.

 

[Betticus]

Eating tends to not be the real problem, it's eating not enough and eating the wrong stuff.

Like eating a bunch of carbs right before bedtime. Or not consuming enough calories to keep your metabolism up.

 

[naughtygirl69s]

Eating tends to not be the real problem, it's eating not enough and eating the wrong stuff.

Like eating a bunch of carbs right before bedtime. Or not consuming enough calories to keep your metabolism up.

this, I know. Doesn't make it any easier to control.

 

[graceanne]

Eating tends to not be the real problem, it's eating not enough and eating the wrong stuff.

Like eating a bunch of carbs right before bedtime. Or not consuming enough calories to keep your metabolism up.

I personally cannot sleep if I don't have carbs at night. And during the night. I've actually been reduced to eating straight honey, in the middle of the night, just to sleep.

This is all signs of an underactive thyroid, and even though I show ALL the signs, my thyroid is evidently normal - therefore they wont' give me anything to help.

Fucking doctors.

 

[Marquis]

If only I could just stop eating all-together.

That isn't too healthy.


In fact, limiting your calories is rarely the best way to lose weight. If you go on a short fast, and eat regularly after that, the net result is almost always a gain in weight. Your metabolism adjusts with your food intake, so if you eat like you're starving your body will go into high efficiency mode and use up as few calories as possible. Then when you start eating normally again your body gets flooded with calories as you try to keep up.

We forget that human beings are essentially animals and our bodies don't know we get our food from supermarkets, not the wild. It really is true when they say you are what you eat. A person who eats 50% protein, 30% carbs and 20% fat is going to look better than a person who eats 50% carbs, 30% fat and 20% protein, even if they are eating the exact same amount of calories.

 

[Guest]

 

[naughtygirl69s]

That isn't too healthy.


In fact, limiting your calories is rarely the best way to lose weight. If you go on a short fast, and eat regularly after that, the net result is almost always a gain in weight. Your metabolism adjusts with your food intake, so if you eat like you're starving your body will go into high efficiency mode and use up as few calories as possible. Then when you start eating normally again your body gets flooded with calories as you try to keep up.

We forget that human beings are essentially animals and our bodies don't know we get our food from supermarkets, not the wild. It really is true when they say you are what you eat. A person who eats 50% protein, 30% carbs and 20% fat is going to look better than a person who eats 50% carbs, 30% fat and 20% protein, even if they are eating the exact same amount of calories.

I know it's not healthy, but not many people realize that food can be an addiction just like alcohol or drugs, only way harder to control because we can't live WITHOUT.

I've tried increasing my protein and limiting carbs and fat, my just CRAVES it and I lose control after a week or so.

This is all signs of an underactive thyroid, and even though I show ALL the signs, my thyroid is evidently normal - therefore they wont' give me anything to help.

have you had your T3, T4 tested as well as TSH? My doctor didn't discover my underactive thyroid until they tested those, btw, I've been on medication for it for YEARS and it hasn't done much for me.

Also, could be insulin resistance you have? You might ask for a 3 hour glucose tolerance test (the same one you get when your pregnant) with insulin levels, my blood sugars had always been fine, fasting or otherwise, but my insulin levels were EXTREMELY HIGH. My body was dumping out tooooo much insulin in response to the sugar. It's better now, I'm essentially on a diabetic diet (when I follow it)

just some thoughts

 

[John Doe]

Kate Moss. She was caught snorting coke recently. Big shock.