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Written by ze
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 14:12 |
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Self-Regulation: A strategy for weight control
My impetus for embarking in weight loss comes from a desire to prevent deterioration of my
health and to increase the probability that I will not leave this world prematurely due to
problems related to carrying around extra weight. In a nut shell, it is motivated by the
desire to be around to see Filipa and Maya grow up and realizing that at 257 lbs my chances
of doing that are not as good as if I get down to my "ideal" weight, i.e. 150 lbs.
The fact is that I have never really wanted to lose weight. I have enjoyed eating a lot and
not minded carrying the extra weight. Perhaps because I live my life independently of the
concerns of others, I never really cared to be obese and about the social implications of
that. I see a lot of people lose or try to control weight in order to be more socially
acceptable, and for a lot of them, that is a strong enough reason to keep their weight in
check. But I know that some of them go about it the wrong way. They have operations, take
diet pills, spend a lot of money on gyms, diet programs, etc., and in the end they often
lapse back into obesity. So these traditional means of weight control have not appealed to
me.
In considering how to go about weight control I looked into many strategies, mindful of the
implications that fads and diets have on end results. They all seemed to me ephemeral. They
seemed to me to treat symptoms instead of causes. I looked around in vain for something that
appealed to me and then I remembered an article that I read in Bahrain where the author
devised a diet through self-experimentation. A search on the internet led me to a book of
self-regulation titled "Losing Control". Reading the introductory blurb for "Losing Control," I
came to realize that it may be just the thing I was looking for.
Looking back I came to realize that I have been gaining weight steadily since leaving
college and that the reason for this is essentially because I never really cared to not gain
weight. This failure to not care, meaning to not regulate, over the years has resulted in
the weight I have now.
Secondly, from past experiences in trying to gain control of my weight, meaning past
attempts to lose weight, I learned that where it went wrong, it had to do precisely with
factors related to inattention to control of my weight.
So the current blog and experiment were devised, precisely to correct aspects of my fruitless past efforts.
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