[Sportsandrec] Statistics on Fitness in Blind Community

[Lisamaria Martinez]

Wow! How did your mother-in-law lose almost 100 pounds?

On 8/8/12, jody at thewhitehats.com <jody at thewhitehats.com> wrote:
> Hello LM,
>
> Oh I do understand especially the part about dieting bringing up emotional
> baggage.
>
> When my mother in law was growing up it was the depression and there were
> eight kids in her family.  They were always hungry.  When she was an adult
> she got up to 225 pounds and she developed diabetes.  Any attempts to died
> failed because the minute she got hungry it reminded her of when she was
> growing up.  She had a hernia in her diaphragm and had it closed last year.
> As a result she can't eat large pieces or food or any volume.  Now she
> weighs 134 pounds and she is almost off insulin.  The hermia actually saved
> her life.
>
> Meanwhile, I am the one who gained 40 pounds from the junk food.  I was
> active but moving to a dead end street in Florida where it is hot so much
> kept me in the house. I'll warn you about menopause too, you'll put on 20
> pounds over night.  Oh it is so easy to gain and so hard to loose.
>
> We used to have ice cream every evening at about 8.  Then we gave it up
> completely to lose weight.  Now we have ice cream but only every few days
> or
> so so it isn't a daily habit.  I think habits are one problem and portion
> size is the other.
>
> I have a friend who moved to the US from China.  I asked her what her first
> impression of the US was expcepting her to talk about the freedoms etc.
> she
> said the first thing that struck her was our portion size!!!
>
> JODY
>
>
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