falisamarie wrote:Along these same lines I was thinking of all the posts lately about people going on vacation or celebrating special occasions and asking if they should go off program. This is pretty simple in my opinion. Think how you would feel if you had a loved one who was a recovering alcoholic and they came to you and said "I am going on vacation and I think I am going to drink while I am gone then I will get right back to AA when I get back" think honestly for a minute how you would react to that.
I have to disagree with you. The difference with a diet and alcoholism or another plan is that we are going to eventually get off of this diet and go back to eating other foods. We are not completely abandoning everything that fits in a lean and green or doesn't have Medifast written on it.
While I understand what you are saying, there are people who are able to go off of the plan (within reason) and come back to it when needed. A vacation is a time for relaxation, and I'm not going to spend my days stressing about how I am going to get to my shaker jar and packets. The fact is, I'm going to eat lean and green similar items and eat healthy while I am gone. This is the exact same thing I am going to do when I go off of the plan after I hit my goal.
Just because some people are weak and go back to their old habits doesn't mean that we all will.
Also, I don't really agree that eating is a disease. Heroin and other drugs are extremely addictive and in order to stop using, you must completely cut them out. With food, you HAVE to eat to survive. I am a fat person and I take full responsibility for my weight. It's my fault that I am fat and I'm dealing with it. I'm not going to allow myself to be catagorized as sick or as having a disease. I am fat because I eat too much...and I am changing that.
When I see food or drive by restaurants I am occasionally tempted, but no more than an average person (at least from what I've seen). I don't really feel the insane temptations that you described as someone who is "addicted to food".
Maybe I'm different?
This post isn't meant to be confrontational. I'm just a little tired of people talking about eating as being a disease, and treating overweight people as though they have a sickness. For the record, I don't really think alcoholism or bring a drug addict is a disease either.
I consider a disease to be something that you have no control over. With all of the things mentioned, someone initially made a choice.
Maybe I just secretly hate fat people. Maybe my only goal is to get skinny so I can hate fatties without being a hypocrite?