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<blockquote data-quote="zand" data-source="post: 1318951" data-attributes="member: 85197"><p>Something that really annoys me when I say my weight won't shift anymore is that people usually take this to mean I lack willpower or the discipline to stick to a plan. I don't, in fact my willpower has probably worked against me in the past in that when I followed really low calories diets years ago I stuck to the rules rigidly. This meant my body went into starvation mode and learnt to exist on a low cal diet without losing much weight. </p><p></p><p>I get upset when people say 'If you cut calories you will lose weight - there weren't any fatties in the concentration camps'. What a stupid comment! A lot of people simply didn't survive the camps - is that what the 'cut calories even further' brigade want for us? Are we worth so little? I have known only 2 people who survived the concentration camps of the 2nd World War. One was imprisoned in Germany and the other in Japan. I am told that the first one came back as skin and bone and needed a long period of refeeding before he could eat normally. When I knew him he was morbidly obese because his body had gotten use to surviving on very little, that's how he survived the war. The second one came back very thin too and was doubled over from living in a small cage too low to stand up in. He also carried some excess poundage in later years and would probably be seen as obese today. Extremely low cal diets simply do not work for me in the long term. I wish I had never tried them. </p><p></p><p>That's todays rant from me, I'm sure there will be more later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zand, post: 1318951, member: 85197"] Something that really annoys me when I say my weight won't shift anymore is that people usually take this to mean I lack willpower or the discipline to stick to a plan. I don't, in fact my willpower has probably worked against me in the past in that when I followed really low calories diets years ago I stuck to the rules rigidly. This meant my body went into starvation mode and learnt to exist on a low cal diet without losing much weight. I get upset when people say 'If you cut calories you will lose weight - there weren't any fatties in the concentration camps'. What a stupid comment! A lot of people simply didn't survive the camps - is that what the 'cut calories even further' brigade want for us? Are we worth so little? I have known only 2 people who survived the concentration camps of the 2nd World War. One was imprisoned in Germany and the other in Japan. I am told that the first one came back as skin and bone and needed a long period of refeeding before he could eat normally. When I knew him he was morbidly obese because his body had gotten use to surviving on very little, that's how he survived the war. The second one came back very thin too and was doubled over from living in a small cage too low to stand up in. He also carried some excess poundage in later years and would probably be seen as obese today. Extremely low cal diets simply do not work for me in the long term. I wish I had never tried them. That's todays rant from me, I'm sure there will be more later. [/QUOTE]
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