Comments on: Finding Your Ideal Weight

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By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Wed, 29 May 2013 01:26:39 +0000

I really don’t think you can define health by weight. You describe a very healthy lifestyle, and it sounds like you don’t have any health issues. That sounds like ‘health’ to me!

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Wed, 29 May 2013 01:22:53 +0000

I have trouble accepting the fact that ‘where my body wants to be’ is in the ‘obese’ category of BMI. I don’t want to accept it or justify it. I want to have a weight where I feel healthy, that will let me do the active things I want to do. I am at LEAST 20 lbs above that now.

Probably more… since I last posted and stopped restricting my carbs, I’ve gained another 5 lbs.

I don’t think that 172 lbs at 5’3″ can really fit ANYONE’S definition of healthy.

By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Wed, 29 May 2013 00:39:49 +0000

I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. If you’re healthy, you may be exactly where your body wants to be.

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Tue, 28 May 2013 16:41:11 +0000

Nathalie: please don’t feel as though you have to justify being fat. There is nothing wrong with you or with fatness. Be good to yourself.

By: Barry Bliss

Barry Bliss — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:36:05 +0000

Good stuff.
I have been copying and pasting a few things (with you, Amber/Go Kaleo being credited, of course, on a few other sites when I believe they may be of help.)

If you’d ever like to answer some questions for a Q and A, I’ll email you some questions and post it a few places.
It’d be an honor.
Take care.

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:07:38 +0000

Thanks for the input. Since February, when I posted initially, I have stopped tracking everything that goes into my mouth. I got a Fitbit, which tells me that I burn 2100 calories on low activity days and 2800 on high activity days (greater than 10000 steps, formal exercise). I lift heavy shit. I do CrossFit. I do yoga. I run (completed a 10k on Sunday). I allowed carbs back in. I eat the occasional sweet. I still eat clean.

Although I haven’t gained, I haven’t lost either. My BMI is still around 29-30.

As much as I’m changing my focus thanks to Eating the Food, Go Kaleo and other sources, I am still heavier than I am comfortable being. I don’t avoid any food other than processed, fried or otherwise ‘fake’ foods.

Stress may be a factor, I am a shift worker and probably have cortisol issues. I don’t sleep as much as I should. I don’t *feel* stressed, however, as I find regular exercise keeps that under control.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong. I agree with the principles behind ETF, and I’m reading Matt Stone’s Diet Recovery currently.

The irony? I’m a medical professional.

By: allison burgueno

allison burgueno — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:14:16 +0000

Nathalie
Do you eat meat? Where’s your protein coming from? Beans? Grains? Dairy?
You’d think a job with that much movement would burn calories – but i’ve met several people who work in movement jobs and have a “clean” diet and are overweight.
Sometimes it is your stress. Sometimes you need to find some way to de-stress. I choose Yoga – and powerful yoga at that. May of the people in my yoga classes have tried everything else and nothing worked, within 60 days of 5 days of yoga a week – lost 20lbs and have amazing body transformations.
If you haven’t tried everything, don’t say so.
I have 3 kids, I’m 39, 5’9″, in the past 10 years my weight has fluxed between 120 and 160. I’m happy in the 130 area – but I have a tiny build.
Been Paleo, macro, eat it all (gluten free of course – I have Celiac Disease), no dairy no gluten, vegetarian, pescatarian, etc.
The only thing I avoid now is gluten…and well chicken – but that’s because I have them as pets.
I’m not qualified to tell you how to eat, but I encourage you to do it differently than you have.
Also – my ND would never recommend a high protein diet.

By: SarahD

SarahD — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:48:35 +0000

Perfect. This is the info I needed. Sorry this is so late a response, but Thanks!!