Narnia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > What problems are you talking about Huguenot? From > what I read Giggirl was relaying her experience > without suggesting it was a problem, just a fact. > One which I found interesting enough to request > she told me what her diet consisted of. > > Your whole theory is based of what you have read > in medical journals. She wrote about her personal > experience. In my opinion that counts for more. It > wont be considered medical science but if it > happened it happened. > > Not everything one can learn is in a book. Thanks Narnia I wish to God that I had been overweight through eating too much. If that had been the case I could have eaten less, lost weight, and saved myself a lot of heartache. But that was not to be my experience. My experience is that my whole life I had a modest appetite and ingested a relatively small intake of food. This didn't matter until my mid 30s when I started to put on weight. When I turned 40 I gave up smoking and weight piled on. I'm not an expert but I would say that my metabolism changed. If you overeat you simply eat less to loose weight. If you don't overeat then the position is a lot tricker. To make matters worse there are a lot of idiots saying stupid things. I have been extremely lucky and managed to get my diet and metabolism back on the right track. I haven't yet managed to stabilise things so I can't skip meals and I'm literally "eating to stay thin". It's difficult. Eating isn't my favourite thing to do.