Oprah yesterday

[ready2lose]

Did anyone see Oprah yesterday? There was an intervention with 16 overweight teenagers, and it made me so angry and frustrated because they did not once talk about changing what they eat, it was all about the emotions. I used to think my over-eating was mostly emotional, but all that craving is gone for me now.

I want to watch today because they will be discussing school lunches. Being that I am a high school lunchlady this is a topic of interest to me. Sadly, what we serve our students is mostly junk disguised as healthy, low-fat foods.

[Kellen]

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Hi~ I wish I had seen this, wonder if it's available to replay on-line. I have a 16 y/o who is losing weight with me. Her heavy weight was 225 at 5'8" or 9", (can't remember which she is, lol) and she has come down to 292, so far. She is having a real hard time, and gets very emotional when she starts wanting sweets, and gets surly and pouts. Doing induction did not take away her cravings, and she is surrounded by kids at school eating goodies, and offering her crap. She gets angry with me, when I tell her "no, she can't have another whatever"

What frustrating is a few minutes before that, she could be all animate and happy about how good she's looking, clothes that fit her again, etc. It's up and down, and it really disturbs me to see how much her moods, self-love and loathing hinges on her food satisfaction level. I worry about how to help her get this under control, because before long, she will have to make her own eating and meal-planning decisions. I'm hoping that once she gets to goal, she will feel so good about her new look, that she won't let it spiral out of control, and rely on the knowledge she gains from this journey.

Her diet IS different, but the emotional reasons underlying her weight gain/appetite have not changed, and I suspect this will always be a struggle for her. It's a cake-filled world, and one does feel like a freak if you always refuse, and like you are living a lie.

I'm going to show her some of the confections on Linda's low carb site, and see if she wants to try making them. She likes to bake. Anyway, I'm going to look around and see if i can find that Oprah show.

[Chicklady]

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If you find it online, please post the link!

[RitaCeleste]

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My child has a serious weight problem. She's 5'5 190lbs on the doc's scale. On mine she's 186lbs. She doesn't eat for emotional reasons. She's like everyone else in my family, hungery. She's really really hungery unless she's just stuffed to bursting. Its a constant battle to catch her sneaking food, and discourage her snacking too much. She's also a bipolar high functioning autistic child on meds that make her want to eat even more. She's never gonna go "WOW! I look good skinny!" even if she gets there. She doesn't care how she looks. I mean really doesn't care. She does care about the health risks so we focus on that. But its all about what you eat, and how much you eat. I find I eat when I'm hungery and that's a lot. When I diet, I don't get full. I don't get satisfied. When I go off the diet and eat until I feel content the amount of food it takes to get there is staggering. Some people are just hungery. Not sad, not stressed etc. just hungery. But I can say the worst thing for me is a high carb, low fat diet. Its even worse, I crave, I have pains, I BECOME emotionally messed up. On Atkins, nobody's stomache is cramping from lack of food atleast. And that's about as comfey as any of my family is gonna get this side of a diet.