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To me all of the below are in some way the same sort of thing, although I didn't see it that way until Richard pointed it out a year or so back. It made me feel a lot less bitter at people who I don't see as overweight who still want to be thinner. I instinctively still find the cosmetic surgery more distasteful than most of the rest, and wonder if others feel the same.
NB More what you find acceptable in others than what you would consider doing yourself.
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To me all of the below are in some way the same sort of thing, although I didn't see it that way until Richard pointed it out a year or so back. It made me feel a lot less bitter at people who I don't see as overweight who still want to be thinner. I instinctively still find the cosmetic surgery more distasteful than most of the rest, and wonder if others feel the same.
NB More what you find acceptable in others than what you would consider doing yourself.
[Poll #369403]
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Date: 2004-10-20 07:15 am (UTC)I guess that I probably fall into this category; however for me controlling what I eat strictly is a form of control. Its also better than what I was doing - following the Slimming World diet strictly and going to the gym at the same time. Doing that was starting to screw my body up; whilst calorie counting is more of a faff to do, it does mean that I'm not in danger of my body metabolising muscle for energy as it was doing before I started calorie counting.
As for why I'm still eating 85% of the calories I need to keep on reducing body fat; that is more to do with my screwed up body image than anything else. You never know, one of these days I may actually like my body at some point; if I'm honest I can say that its only one bit of my body which I really dislike and have seriously negative thoughts these days so I'm vaguely getting there. Sort of. Maybe.
As for the list of body modifications, I think that if a person really wants to do it and understands that its not going to solve everything then its okay. I do think that cosmetic surgery should have counselling associated with it as well; from what I read it does seem that the better cosmetic surgeons do think this as well at times.