Re: Emotional brain drives eating

On Oct 17, 12:12 am, Quentin Grady <quen...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:36:23 -0700, "Michelle C."

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Hi Quentin,

I think it is easy to feel like a failure and then "guilt-trip" when a
person is following the recommended guidelines and not getting
results.

G'day G'day Michelle,

"Feel like a failure" beautifully describes the sort of negative
emotion that could trigger the desire to eat in order to keep down
feelings. Following the recommended guidelines and not getting
positive results must have been a horrible experience. Not only
horrible but a drawn out one at that.

Many years back, I followed the standard health advice: eat
low fat and get 60% of calories from carbs.

The standard advice used to be 55% carb, 15% protein, 30% fat. That
was until the results were in from the first three years of the
Women's Health Initiative trial. Then this advice "disappeared" to be
replaced with "consult your doctor" That was five years ago. By this
means the agencies avoided being taken to task by the people who
followed the advice and found they didn't lose weight.

Joslin made a move by suggesting more protein for sedentary people.

I was quite diligent.

Once upon a time I used to teach reading and comprehension strategies
to families. I did it with families that had a child who was
identified as seriously underachieving at school. What I found is
that the underachievers were frequently the well behaved children who
did what the teacher said they should do. The other children didn't
follow the strategies the teacher gave them but rather did what the
teachers did and could ready fluently. It was the diligent children
who had the most problems. The ones that simply do what works have
fewer problems.

Hi Quentin,

Very interesting. I was definitely under-achieving as far as getting
to the bottom of my health issues, and well-behaved in taking the high
carb/low fat advice to heart. I think the problem was my trust and
belief and science. Actually, that hasn't wavered, but with age and
experience, I am able to interpret the data better and realize when
the evidence may simply be suggestive rather than concrete. However,
at that time I was newly out of college, and a medical technologist to
boot with an avid interest and belief in the goodness of medical
research and its application. Consequently, it took me a long to
realize that what was being prescribed by the American Heart
Association as a diet for good health really wasn't working for me. I
often think that without the total trust in medical science, I would
have caught on sooner.


However, I felt crappy most of the time, suffering repeatedly from
reactive hypoglycemia, and it was a struggle not to gain weight
without starving myself. I often felt cheated and like a failure,
because I was doing everything I supposed to do, and not getting the
results that I was assured this diet would provide--easy weight
control and a feeling of health.

That must have been truly horrible.

This experience has taught me to look deeper than my own shortcomings.

Such wisdom in one so young. It's hard to accept that we often have
to go through unpleasant experiences to acquire such wisdom.

Knowledge--even incorrect knowledge as previously discussed--can be
passed along; wisdom comes only through experience :-)


Lots of times if something isn't working, it's because our bodies
are trying to tell us something.

Now ain't that the truth. One dictum I came across which has helped
to reduce the learning time is "When something isn't working, do
something else." "Trying harder often makes it worse."


That's a good one! :-) Kind of like that definition of insanity--
keep doing the same thing but expect different results. HA!

Best regards,
Michelle C., T2
diet & exercise


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