I've Gained 20lbs, I Can't Possibly Go On Living!

30Bad seems to be dominated by these types of threads lately.

So you've gained weight after years of abusing your body. Cry me a river. Perhaps instead of being so vain as to focus your entire existence around your waist measurement, take a moment to be grateful for the fact that you actually have food to eat. Take a minute to remember that you are privileged enough to be able to choose health.

Millions of people in this world are starving to death, but your life is over because you think you're too fat to exercise. That'll help. Sit on the couch on your new fat arse wallowing in self pity. Or You could accept that your body needs time to heal and get out there and move your ass!

This is how fat I've gotten on fruit after two years of following this lifestyle. AND folks, this is just after I went 40 days without a bowel movement and was retaining tons of water due to extreme stress!

There's all this talk of long timers supposedly gaining weight and have troubles with fitness. I haven't seen it yet. Where are the pictures? Who are these fat long term fruit eaters? I sure don't feel fat. I could list a whole lot of fit long term fruit eaters:

Kristina Carrillo Bucaram

Freelee

Megan Mcdonnell

Teri Leventhal

Drew McCall Burke

CBraunmuller

Roziland Graham

Gina Matthews

Anne Osbourne

It goes on and on...

So instead of feeling sorry for your privileged self, find a hobby. Volunteer. Exercise. Live. Stop spending every moment of time stepping on the scale checking how much weight you've gained and be grateful for your life.

End rant.

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Permalink Reply by Esperanza Vite - The Raw Monkey on April 11, 2012 at 9:46pm

Totally agree with you Tarah! Well said :)

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Permalink Reply by Tarah @ 40 Below Fruity on April 11, 2012 at 9:56pm

Great to hear Alison,

I had just read your post about your experience. It's wonderful that you've realized your health potential before things became seriously wrong.

That's exactly what I mean. I was small enough to fit into a 00 when I was 14, after restricting my calories basically down to nothing and binge drinking. Of course I'm 6 inches taller than you, though. It wasn't a good look for me.

You're absolutely right. It's beautiful to be able to eat with abandon and not feel any guilt. It's essential to your sanity!

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Permalink Reply by Greenmama on April 12, 2012 at 12:49am

+1 You are an inspiration, Alison. :)

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Permalink Reply by Jon Fergus on April 12, 2012 at 7:41am

I think women need to remember feminism and take our sanity and our self worth back and stop trying to fit a body image that isn't possible for more than 5% of the population.

Hear hear!!! :D About time you ladies started running the world instead of stressing over some curves!

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Permalink Reply by Kali Flanagan on April 12, 2012 at 6:31pm

So true :)

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Permalink Reply by Paulina on April 13, 2012 at 10:54am

SO proud of you Alison, what an amazing story! :)

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Permalink Reply by Jessica on April 12, 2012 at 12:51am

Great post!

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Permalink Reply by Casey on April 12, 2012 at 11:18pm

I'm amazed by these posts as well, it's nuts! Whatever weight someone gains eating HCLV is what's needed for healthy functioning of the body, and that's about it. It seems bizarre to me that beautiful women obsess about being too fat so much, when there are plenty of truly fat and unhealthy people out there that really ought to wake up! I've never been one to watch/read much mainstream media though...guess I've been lucky in that respect.

What further amazes me though is how people can ignore severe health warning signs, and think that the body is inherently defective and some chemicals in pill form are going to magically fix it. I have a friend in Indiana who's always been a heavy burger and sausage and other unhealthy food eater. Recently he started having severe pains and had to have his gallbladder removed. Since he can no longer eat sausage or burgers, he's taken to eating lots of chicken and rice, complaining that his body still hurts all the time. I doubt he's touched a piece of fresh fruit any time recently.

I don't yet know what your story is or why you worried about the hospital, but it's cool to see that you reacted to it positively! I faced severe eczema and infection myself and did get desperate enough to go to the hospital a few times to little avail, and after some initial slow improvements on a vegetarian diet, I knew the answer must lie in what I was putting in to my body and started reading about and trying different dietary practices. Thank god, all suffering is gone and it's truly getting a second chance at life.

That's a tangent yes, but I think the key point is that people need to realize the ultimate focus of diet should be health, not number on a scale nor satiating gluttonous wants. Life can be full of great energy, perfect health, and a constant feeling of love and happiness and well-being regardless of circumstance...if only the body is treated right.

It falls down surprisingly fast if you go back to eating the crap "foods" again, learned the hard way on that one! I'd *much* rather have a few pounds of healthy weight that lack all the positive benefits of a raw vegan lifestyle. Not that I personally have any concern about that (as a guy, I'm much more likely to hear criticism that I'm too thin as the trend for us seems to be overweight rather than under or healthy), just saying.

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Permalink Reply by Sherry Panov on April 19, 2012 at 9:20am

Well said! Aside from that your feeling great because alot of the heavyness from eating on the SAD diet is leaving your system and you may even have some "PEP" in your step as a result, you most probably would like to see some "Fruits" :) of our labour. But I guess we just have give it a bit of patience as the SAD diet most probably has done some crazy stuff to our systems' over time.............in HCLFRV.....paitence is a virtue.....Just keep doing what your doing and have fun! Its all good!