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<blockquote data-quote="Petrolhead276" data-source="post: 1585394" data-attributes="member: 229935"><p>Cherryaa</p><p>Yes your first sentence is a fair summary. Thanks for the rest too.</p><p></p><p>However, with one crucial exception - It's not just since she became diabetic that she eats less, She has always eaten like a mouse, yet gained weight.</p><p>As a child (many years before I met her) she was even put on a diet after her mother who had taken her to the doctor about her weight, if I recall correctly it was salad after salad, strangely she still enjoys a salad now, but not for every meal (who would - rhetorical).</p><p></p><p>There is a rationale that I have heard many times:</p><p>whereby our bodies store fat from the good times for use in the lean times (caveman biology) and if one does not eat regularly then when foods does enter the body the body sends it straight to its energy store (FAT), so in reality eating too little can be equally as bad as eating too much.</p><p></p><p>One of our sons consultants summed up his weght gain very well.</p><p>"Stuart, you have to look at it like this, your body is very efficient and doesn't need much in terms of food (aka calories) to keep it going each day".</p><p></p><p>And my orthopaedic consultant who performed the surgery on the cam impingemt of my left hip was concerned about my weight (IMHO more that it might ruin his spotless reputation for no breaks of the femur post surgery), however, he said to me "you just need to stop eating"; and he wasn't joking either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Petrolhead276, post: 1585394, member: 229935"] Cherryaa Yes your first sentence is a fair summary. Thanks for the rest too. However, with one crucial exception - It's not just since she became diabetic that she eats less, She has always eaten like a mouse, yet gained weight. As a child (many years before I met her) she was even put on a diet after her mother who had taken her to the doctor about her weight, if I recall correctly it was salad after salad, strangely she still enjoys a salad now, but not for every meal (who would - rhetorical). There is a rationale that I have heard many times: whereby our bodies store fat from the good times for use in the lean times (caveman biology) and if one does not eat regularly then when foods does enter the body the body sends it straight to its energy store (FAT), so in reality eating too little can be equally as bad as eating too much. One of our sons consultants summed up his weght gain very well. "Stuart, you have to look at it like this, your body is very efficient and doesn't need much in terms of food (aka calories) to keep it going each day". And my orthopaedic consultant who performed the surgery on the cam impingemt of my left hip was concerned about my weight (IMHO more that it might ruin his spotless reputation for no breaks of the femur post surgery), however, he said to me "you just need to stop eating"; and he wasn't joking either. [/QUOTE]
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