Since I don't want to sound as mean as my friend in Mass., but there is still a point to be made, let me help everyone again with some math. You new folks, take heed to these numbers. If I have learned anything in two and a half years around the weight loss neighborhood, you can't fuck with the math. Sure, there are anomalies here and there, and sometimes genetics and metabolism trumps math, but day in and day out, Math will win.
My friend
Kenlie, as it is friend making Monday, laments that
"Last year was awesome for me in many ways, but my weight-loss goals took a major hit. I didn’t accomplish anything in that area. I needed to go through the changes I went through, and I needed to admit some things that I know were holding me back. I needed to stand on my own two feet, and I needed to lose weight too.I accomplished those things with exception of the last which is arguably the most important thing."
Right off the bat, if you read her blog for dietary advice, for Fitbloggin news, or for anything weight related, remember the words that she wrote above. Now honesty is great, and I am all for a restart, but let's look a little deeper into the picture.
Keeping A Promise To Myself
Well, it’s weigh-in day, and I can tell you right now that it will not be pretty. I will show a significant gain this week which made me consider skipping my weigh-in, but that’s not how it works. I’m going! I ate and I exercised less, and now it’s time for the scale to reflect what I already know is coming. For the record, I do think that going on and off of the birth control played into my gain a bit too, but the reasons don’t matter as much as the fact that I am back on track.
Yeah, this was last year's resolution...
What It Should Have Been
That was the year before
Happy New Year!
We are only hours away from the new year, and I am ecstatic about going into 2010 as a healthier and slimmer person than I was going into 2009.This year has been a year of change in my mindset, my behavior and my actions. I became a person who controls what enters my mouth. I became a person who chooses to workout instead of settling for a justification not to. And I became a person who knows that I can achieve my weight loss goals by continuing to live a healthier lifestyle.
The year before that..
Here we are, January 2013, and it's 4 years later at 300 pounds plus. Reading her blog for diet advice is not healthy people. It is sad. This does not mean I know anything, but I do know that there are quite a few people that are clueless....Sad...
To maintain 300 pounds, you consciously eat 3300 calories every day. That is math, end of lesson
I wouldn't read her for inspiration. The bloggers who helped me and inspired me were those who fought for and made progress and learned stuff, and stuff they learned helped me.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 300 lbs, I needed to read blogs of folks the same or close to that weight for hope and inspiration. Now, that's not what I look for. I have other needs.
Perhapss the folks who follow her do so out of 1. friendship (they just like her) or 2. Hope that her breakthrough will come and it will help them who are in the same rut as Kenlie or 3. like some others, read her to see a "sideshow", and I don't mean that cruelly. I think Kenlie has a likable persona and understand her having followers. But I do think some folks just enjoy seeing people wallow, and that's one audience segment.
I'm sure some folks snicker or make fun of me and my blog, but that's what being public entails. You get great folks, good folks and some folks who think you're laughable.
Some folks like you, A. Some hate you. Some understand and some don't understand you. Ditto me. That's how it is.
Kenlie..well, I hope this is her breakthrough year, cause it might help those who are looking to find their own mojo through her. For those who want to be comforted in morbid obesity through her, they need to find another role model and get going...it doesn't help to wallow, though I'm as good in that as anyone. :-/
I love you, Allan. Waiting with bated breath for Kenlie's late December 2013 post in about 50 weeks...she'll probably just cut and paste snippets from the previous three years...
ReplyDeleteKenlie will never lose weight the traditional way. She does not understand the mental aspect of living healthfully. Her approach is to game Weight Watchers and see how many cupcakes and glasses of booze she can "fit" into her points, then take a Scarlett O'Hara attitude of "tomorrow is another day." (Or, more appropriately, "Next year is another year.")
ReplyDeleteWhy she doesn't get someone to sponsor her weight loss surgery is my question. It's clear she's an addict and surgery at least would minimize the amounts of food and alcohol she could consume. If she truly wanted to get herself to a healthy weight, any doctor looking at her would tell her it's her best option. Maybe she can get Southwest Airlines to underwrite her bypass.
Je t'aime, Paris...
DeleteMaybe she can get Southwest Airlines to underwrite her bypass.
DeleteLOL!
Kenlie had mentioned several months ago about no longer calling her blog a weight loss blog. That would probably be a good choice since it certainly isn't about weight loss. I am amazed by the concept of if she is exercising as much as she reports, how much she would have to be eating to maintain her weight or show a gain.
ReplyDeleteMy reason for even reading her blog is just curiosity. My mind tries to figure out how she lives in a nice apt. with a doorman, drives a hybrid, takes numerous trips, attends college, and enjoys frequent outings with no means of support ever really mentioned. I don't buy the political strategist. I suppose if and when I ever know that, I'll quit reading.
Wealthy Mummy and Daddy?
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