This Trucker Fights Back

Status
Not open for further replies.
Bully on you Val and I'm not the least bit surprised you pwned your race not to mention how much fun you had in the process :) You have the flare to bring enjoyment to most everything you do from what I've read. I took it that that's just the world a hottie creates but it probably goes a bit further with you, mainly that great attitude you bring to the game :)

Aaah, the heat, well it's helped me in some ways and of course it's a pain in the ass too but by gawd I can sure deal with a LOT better with will all this mad weight loss, yanno ?!?!

Thanks for being you *hugs back*

P.S. If my daughter matures at the rate I think she can, she'll do just fine. Her social misgivings can make or break her in this new atmosphere - there will be some collective dad-like breath holding along the way.

WOW! Thanks!

I just like to spread the love and rainbows and joy and all that girly shit.

LOL! Your daughter will do fine! I don't blame you, though. When I was at UCSC I was a bookworm, a vegan, a feminazi, and a diligent, hard worker--got a 3.94 GPA upon graduation only because of 3 A-s (I got 5 A+s but they don't count). Now I'm worse than some of those college kids! LOL! But it's just because education was my focus then. Now it's all about being a jock. But hey--I still educate myself on wine, that's for sure!

*kiss on cheek*
 
How did this happen ??

I weighed in on May 28th at 209 for my DOT physical and a week ago today I weighed in at the hospital at 208, today I went to get the stitches out and and upon jumping on the hospital scales again, I lowered my weight to 205.

But what's this ?? Family BBQ last Sunday ?? and then there was the (last) Thursday night thing too ?? Clearly two fun days filled with overages in the calorie dept. so just how did I reward myself ?? aaaah well a few of you think I'm on a stretch run to Onederland by the 4th of July and I'm doing 'extra special' things to my body to make this happen.

Nothing could be further from the truth. I took a foolish challenge last July and I swore I would never do that again and I meant it. So what gives ?? A 'creature of habit' happened.

I'm still a warrior, make no mistake about that but lately I've found myself more of 'doing' than writing about it. What has changed is that I dedicate mindless impulses to my routine but I've recently become infatuated with the 'super obese' and all of that world. It scares me. We truly are 'creatures of habit', aren't we ??

Have I successfully converted the 'mindless impulse' of over-eating into a replacement for exercise ?? I dunno. Oh sure, the results are there to support 'I have arrived' but are these mindsets so much different from one another ??

Do I really want this (connection) ?? Again, I dunno. Have I substitued obsession for obsession ?? I think I have, in fact, I was sure that was the key to pulling off this weight loss at the beginning. I rationalized that one passion traded for another was the 'magic wand' I needed to wave.

See, this is where I'm going with this ramble is this: (and I ask myself) "If I stop doing what I'm doing presently (as I now know it) have I created an obsessionistic lifestyle - period" ??

Can you see the fear in this ?? Have I OCD'd myself into weight loss ?? I sure love ALL things about what I've accomplished so far but did I master my mental domain along the way ??

I'm open for discussion.
 
Hi Randy! oh man.....talk about obsessed.....I went from "You will have to drag me to the treadmill, oh gawd no, 15 minutes????...oh this is so damn hard, I hate this!!!!...has it been 15 minutes yet???" to "miss my workout for vacation? NO! I can't!"

And as I wrote that, I realize that my frame of mind now, is partially based in fear. Fear that if I don't workout per my current routine, that I will just stop and I will revert back to all of my old habits and put on weight.

I wonder if people who have weight issues are plagued with OCD...is it part of our personality profile. Gee Randy, now you have my brain spinning.... :)
 
I definitley know what you mean. It's extremes with me... either extreme eating or extreme non-eating and exercise to the point I feel SO guilty if I miss one day. I'm trying to straighten out my OCD issues, too. Good luck. Let me know when you find the answer, ok?
 
I wanted to drop by real quick to say Hello! I haven't forgotten you, but am very busy!!:rolleyes: Hope to be up and running again as normal in mid July. Hope everything is great with you and will catch up before you know it!!:)
 
I think we can become obsessive about all sorts of aspects of our weight loss, including our exercise. That doesn't necessarily equate to a disorder or . Frankly I suspect that the extreme care some of us take to ensure we keep making progress, is what we will need to our weight loss. I think it's reasonable to have some fear about that. There is a genuine danger. We all know that most people do not manage maintenance long term. We are all trying to beat those odds. Mostly the sense of fear isn't obvious and is helpful. Personally I don't find my fear unreasonably intrusive and will think it's reasonable for me to become less fearful some years down the track, maybe.

If it happens that we are set up to have to chose between feeling compelled to exercise and feeling compelled to overeat, that's not necessarily a problem is it? I guess it might be if the compulsion made us repeatedly exercise despite the fact that we knew it was hurting our bodies in some way, but I haven't met anyone here who might fit into that category.

Maybe the issue that can be a problem is if we feel that there is just one way to exercise that we know we can rely on for weight loss or weight maintenance, and become anxious if we can't continue the exact program we originally relied on for our results. Of course if we manage to move past that stumbling block, we often find that having a change brings more benefits than than problems anyway.

I wonder if my comments are relevant to the issues you raised? Maybe your real concern is in your last question “Did I master my mental domain?” Perhaps you see that you were in a situation where there was a "mental domain" controlling you - compelled to eat whilst knowing it wasn't in your best interests, or even what you consciously wanted, and wonder if you are now in a situation where you feel/may feel compelled do something else (exercise), whilst knowing it isn't in your best interests or even what you consciously want? Personally I recall a massive intellectual awareness that my eating was harmful, and divided emotions. My emotions included feeling disgusted by my lack of control and its consequences, yet also feeling buoyed/brightened for short periods by satisfying the urge I had to eat badly, or by the physical pleasure of eating. I recall taking junk from my fridge to eat while having the idea that "I" was watching myself do it in wondering, horrified resignation. Perhaps that's just out and out denial - but then there can be automatic unhealthy eating that's almost unnoticed. Also, I remember the first time I kept walking without consciously deciding to and heaving a sigh of relief that the part of me which previously would sabotage my conscious plans seemed ready to sometimes help instead of hinder.

I find it helpful to see myself as having more than one mental domain. Perhaps that is similar to what you mean when you separate the idea of “I” from “mental domain”. Yet of course there was only one me doing everything I just mentioned and only one mind and it is partly composed of my conscious thoughts, partly of barely conscious memories, partly it's a register of sensations, and of course the complicated effects of hormones and other chemicals. There are such a lot of different ways we can think about what we mean by ideas like self and mind. One way I see it is to consider the less conscious part as something we can consciously train to support our conscious decisions. As for example, we do when we write about our intentions and weight loss beliefs and victories, or as you did, repeating your determination and intentions aloud. Also our repeated behaviours, are a kind of training. I guess all that training also affects what's likely to pop up in our conscious thoughts in future. If we have trained our mental domain, does that then make us its master? If we are master, does that mean it can never run across the road without permission? I guess it's less likely that it will if we keep an eye on it for signs of imminent rebelliousness and if we have useful plans that we implement when we see those signs. Also if it does lash out in rebellion, does that mean it won't come slinking back with lowered head and anxious eyes in apology? Or that we can't reassert control quickly. Surely if those things apply then mastery's still there.

Then again... You may be talking about the way that you might now believe you have done a useful, substantial amount of exercise, and eaten well, yet still feel that you ought to make use of some remaining time in your day to exercise even more. Maybe you feel uncomfortable or even guilty if you don't, because that would go against the habit you've now developed. Perhaps you have the mastery over your mental domain, you took it for a run this morning, yet it's used to going after dinner and there it sits at the door with its lead in its mouth! I'm likely to be a bit uncomfortable about that myself, but in all seriousness if that's the scenario the master still gets to choose, and doesn't the result depend on whether or not the master has other plans for his time?

:)
 
Last edited:
Wow, T2. You are really doing great. I try to drop in here at least once a week to see how everybody is doing. You have almost made it to your goal weight. What a HUGE accomplishment. You should be very proud of yourself. How does it feel?
 
I wonder if people who have weight issues are plagued with OCD...is it part of our personality profile. Gee Randy, now you have my brain spinning.... :)

I think successful dieters are plagued with OCD....when I was more OCD about my diet, I lost. Now I'm less obsessive, and I'm maintaining. Hmmmmm
 
How did this happen ??
Have I successfully converted the 'mindless impulse' of over-eating into a replacement for exercise ?? I dunno. Oh sure, the results are there to support 'I have arrived' but are these mindsets so much different from one another ??

Do I really want this (connection) ?? Again, I dunno. Have I substitued obsession for obsession ?? I think I have, in fact, I was sure that was the key to pulling off this weight loss at the beginning. I rationalized that one passion traded for another was the 'magic wand' I needed to wave.

See, this is where I'm going with this ramble is this: (and I ask myself) "If I stop doing what I'm doing presently (as I now know it) have I created an obsessionistic lifestyle - period" ??

Can you see the fear in this ?? Have I OCD'd myself into weight loss ?? I sure love ALL things about what I've accomplished so far but did I master my mental domain along the way ??

I'm open for discussion.

This is a mind-blow. I'll have to think about it............:confused:
 
I can see your aversion to that, Kelly. But unfortuntatley I think this IS complicated.

Obsessiveness works. It gets the job done. Does end justify means? Sometimes I think so....is it morally corrupt to spedn so much time on diet and exercise? I dunno, there are WORSE things. I am a creature of habit--I'm also a hedonistic woman, and I crave novelty, adventure, and variety. Therefore, anorexia is OUT IF THE QUESTION. Discipline, discipline, alludes me.
 
For me, it's not an obsessive thing. I have my days of not counting calories, and my days of not doing a big exercise effort. Yes, I want to at least get out for a walk everyday, and I get very antsy when it doesn't happen. But it's mostly because it feels damn good, and I have very little in my life that feels that good (no comments, Randy:rotflmao: ) Exercise (at least the walks in the fresh air and sunshine) make me feel way better than compulsively eating.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top