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.
Permalink Reply by Tarah @ 40 Below Fruity on It was absolutely terrible. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. It was the worst I've ever felt.
Thank you!
Permalink Reply by Jon Fergus on HI Chantal. Constipation can often be caused by unripe fruit. Make sure your fruits are all fully ripe before eating :) Just one potential cause.
http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/how-does-ripe-fruit-look-...
Permalink Reply by TheBananaGirl on Awesome post Tarah!
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.
Yes! I needed to hear this a couple of years back.
Permalink Reply by Broccoli Babe on Unfortunately, there are a lot of insecure people. Though it's best to move on and get a stronger mentality and not dwell in self loathing thoughts, it's nice to have a place to ask about your concerns when just beginning your 80/10/10 journey.
It's not like you can ask these silly questions to the general population. =)
What the future holds for one that sticks with this great diet is sadly not common knowledge. I think it's normal for people to be scared and insecure about changing their entire way of thinking. Especially if you came from a past of fear and insecurity.
It's probably annoying to hear the same vain questions from newbies, but this whole website is kind of like a big support group. =)
Permalink Reply by Durifran on Yay!
I can't believe you went 40 days without a bowel movement. At this point I don't think I could go 40 minutes..
Permalink Reply by Tarah @ 40 Below Fruity on I know...I can't imagine ever going through that again. It's all about balance. I can't give up my health for volunteer. There has to be a compromise between the two!
Permalink Reply by Michele on I don't come to 30BAD often, but this is the very issue that brings me here today.
Brief history of raw foods - committed to 100% raw in May of 2006. Read 80/10/10 in Oct of 2007. Somewhere in there, I lost 30 pounds. My fat intake was probably just over 10%, and I probably was under-eating inadvertently on a regular basis.
May 2011, I finally started ramping up the exercise. I am currently doing about an hour a day, including a good mix of resistance/strength, high intensity interval training, and running, as well as yoga and other various activities.
About 3 months ago, I realized I forgot to start eating more with the increased exercise. I hadn't been sleeping well, and of course not always making the best choices (but pretty good mostly). So I started eating more and of course I gained weight very quickly. I now find myself 20 pounds over what I weighed last summer. I get all the "this too shall pass" and all, and I'm trying really hard to be patient. But I have no clothes that fit (because I gave all the old ones away when I'd maintained the loss for a couple of years), and I know that I'm on the right path and it will eventually melt away. I need some reassurance of how long to expect it to take. I don't want to have to buy new clothes that are bigger just because I wanted to lose the last 10 pounds (which is now more like 30).
So technically, you could call me a (fairly) long term high carb raw fooder who is overweight. I'm not going to post a picture, but there you are (my scale- which I rarely visit- calculates my body fat % and says I'm at 33%, up a little from when I really started the strength training). If anyone has suggestions of something maybe I've overlooked, I would be most grateful.
Permalink Reply by Greenmama on Spend $50 at Goodwill on a "new" wardrobe that fits. It's no fun to wear things that are uncomfortable and ill-fitting... it's like a downer every day. Those bio-electrical impedence scales are pretty suspect for accuracy. You could get a caliper test, but why sweat it? You were restricting, now you're not, you know you're on the right track, do what's fun and skip what's not.
Permalink Reply by ednshell on Hi Michele,
You say: About 3 months ago, I realized I forgot to start eating more with the increased exercise. I hadn't been sleeping well, and of course not always making the best choices (but pretty good mostly). So I started eating more and of course I gained weight very quickly. realized I forgot to start eating more with the increased exercise.
So you are 3 months in being high carb and eating enough to be healthy while coming off of inadvertently under eating for nearly 6 years?
Numerous people on 30BaD have shared that after a past of under eating and then eating enough they gain weight at first. This seems to be normal. While at the same time experiencing very positive health benefits from eating more calories, including glowing skin, deeper sleep, better mood, clearer mind etc. The body does balance out the weight in time as it heals, given all the right conditions, plenty of sleep and water etc. Some report a few months before they stop gaining and start losing and others report more than a year. Adrienne wrote a sweet post on this topic: How to accept possible fluid/glycogen/fat/blood/lymph weight gain a...
Permalink Reply by Michele on Thanks for sharing the link.
I posted an update on another topic. (http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/who-is-not-losing-gaining...).
It's good to get some perspective. I feel that I've been "healing" for such a long time (I went gluten-free in 1997), that I sometimes can't help wonder that I still have such a long way to go.
Permalink Reply by Tarah @ 40 Below Fruity on Beautiful message Shannana!
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