Umpa -- thanks for the link, and how timely since Jacki and I have both shared about our mothers forcing us on diets as little girls. My mother was entralled with Twiggy and wanted me to be thin like that.....I was normal weight.
I can remember being put on diets as young as eight....and then this other memory I have is freshman year of high school something had clicked with me with the diet....and I started purposefully depriving myself of food. I remember sitting in school and had had ice water for lunch instead of food, and I was so proud of that and proud of myself....and freshman picture I was very thin.....mother was delighted with that. THANK God something intervened where I went back to eating normally. I still was on diets all through highschool. My mother used to weigh me on Friday after school and if I had lost weight I could go out with my boyfriend (I was a senior then)....if I hadn't lost the weight I could not go out with my boyfriend.
Recently my sister and I were disowned by our mother, and she sent all my sisters pictures from the family album back to my sister. My sister remarked how thin she was in one of the pictures and how our mother had put her on a diet. My sis is five years younger, and she was put on a diet almost immediately when I had left the house....THANK God my sister is okay...she actually a mental health professional -- she said she had to go into the field to figure our childhood out. I never knew until a couple of weeks ago about my sister being put on a diet at age 13.
However, I do realize I held the fork all my adult years, but I think it was a combination of putting me on a diet when I was normal weight and introducing me to the "diet mentality" that contributed to the weight gain. I stumbled a lot recently when all these issues resurfaced, but the drama related to that has about flat-lined now, and my sister and I feel peace....AND I feel happy and excited about continuing my FTS journey to normal weight.
Jacki -- we just have to heal from all that previous negativity that led to our dieting mentality -- FTS is not a diet, it's a way of life, and it's the journey to good health and a healthy
weight loss. Our having healthier bodies will help heal the past also...
Blessings to each one of you....
