Comments on: Forget weight setpoint. What’s your sanity setpoint?

By: Bits and Pieces | Eat, Pray, Lift

Bits and Pieces | Eat, Pray, Lift — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:02:24 +0000

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By: Abby

Abby — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:42:01 +0000

This is why I love your blog, and it is one of the only blogs I can read after recognizing, and getting help for, my disordered relationship with food. I stepped on the scale today and I have not gained or lost a single ounce in the last few months. Oh how happy my body must be now that it is being listened to and respected after almost a decade of battles. I am currently EXACTLY the midpoint of the 20 pounds I gained and lost over the last ten years. It seems I have found my setpoint AND my sanity setpoint. It is a beautiful pace to be.

By: Sanity Setpoint | Red headed pixie

Sanity Setpoint | Red headed pixie — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:33:44 +0000

[…] read an interesting blog post today from Go Kaleo about your sanity set point. We all have a weight set point, the weight that we can maintain […]

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:16:41 +0000

For the last week or so I’ve been eating MAD DONUTS. This is unusual, because I never even used to like donuts, even when I was a kid… I found the sugar content to be a bit sickening. Anyway, for the last many years I’ve struggled to come to grips with my weight, and this has distorted my relationship to food. When I was a healthy, active, wiry little kid, all tree-climbing and double-decker-sandwich-eating, I never cared about what I ate so long as I enjoyed it. All these years, I’ve been wishing I could get back to that lean, active, high metabolic rate body that I had naturally as a kid. But what I really want is the feeling of “I don’t give a fuck as long as I’m enjoying myself.”

So I’ve been eating donuts. And I haven’t gained a single pound. Take that!

I am counting calories (was counting macros, but got tired of it), but it’s much more relaxed and less crazy than feeling anxious about what I’m eating all the time. And I don’t go too low just to make my weight loss go faster. I’m tired of that! It’s too full of deprivation energy, and I just can’t do that. I want to consume the world, not hold myself back from it! I want to eat donuts and crepes and ice cream and thai iced coffee! I want to eat bacon and avocado and mashed potatoes and gravy! I just don’t want to feel bloated and gross all the time, and I think as long as I listen to when my body tells me when to stop, I’ll be fine.

Thanks so much for your very grounded approach to all this, it’s very reassuring!

By: Domi @ Eat, Pray, Lift

Domi @ Eat, Pray, Lift — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:36:27 +0000

Well put. All the ways my body has changed (in both appearance and health) are the result of habits – those fad diets gave me absolutely no lasting results…unless you count a disordered view of food and self-worth, but even that’s changing as healthy thought habits replace old ones.

It all comes back to something that took me over 2 decades to learn: There is more to life than our bodies and our physical health. Both are important, very much so, but not the MOST important.