BrightAngel wrote:I Accept that I am Greedy, and a Glutton.
What does that really mean?
Webster defines - "Greedy" as "having a strong desire for food or drink";
"Glutton as "one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking";
"Voracious" is having a huge appetite: Ravenous; or excessively eater: Insatiable;
. . . . . . .Voracious applies especially to habital gorging with food or drink.
. . . . . . . .Synonyms:
- "Gluttonous" applies to one who delights in eating...especially beyond the pont of necessity or satiety.
"Ravenous" imples excessive hunger and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with food.
"Rapacious"often suggests excessive and selfish acquisitveness.
Well, That IS me.
So....is it a bad thing?
I don't think so.
It's just part of who I am, and what I need to deal with in my life.
along with my other personality characteristics and physical appearance.
I Accept these character "defects",
just like I Accept physical things about me such as:
my height, age, eye-color, strech marks, wrinkles, less than taunt skin..etc. etc. etc.
Acceptance gets me out of Denial,
and gives me the freedom to do what I can
to reduce negative side effects produced by the condition...
...if I choose to.
Acceptance of Truth is a starting place.
.....and the Truth is that all of those definitions apply to me....
I am a Glutton. Does it mean I have to be fat?
Not necessarily.
Obesity is a "negative side effect" of Gluttoney,
and in order to avoid that side-effect,
I have to work to control, direct, and tame my eating desires.
Will new Habits "tame the wild animal"?
And can I develop those Habits?
I hope so.
I haven't commented on this and when I meant to do so, it had gotten bigger with lots of opinions.
BrightAngel-when I was a teenager, one of the classes I had to take in school was Psychology, there was one thing we were taught that I liked and I still apply to my life today, that is
Introspection, you look at yourself and learn who you are and do so at every stage in your life; like what you see?, good for you!, don't like what you see?, you accept it and either change it or move on.
In that spirit, I really like that you know
exactly who you are and what are your positives and your negatives, now-a-days everyone seems to be caught in all that "be positive to yourself at all times" movement that encourages either not admitting your faults, flaunting them or just plain ignoring them, like those license plates you see that say things like "I'm a princess and I behave like one", like being spoiled is something to be proud of, because God forbid you are guilty of anything ever!.
So you, who know you better than anyone else have seen that you have a problem with gluttony and decided to accept it as a part of your persona and do what you must in order to change that.
Good for you!, I don't see it as something bad that I have to talk you out of, but as something brave; you have looked in the mirror and accepted what you saw.
I support you, but I beg you: do not go overboard in order to deal with this, no chastizing, punishing of any kind, please, but as long as it is positive and healthy, do what you must; no one knows you better that you.
I haven't read much of what anyone has said here, but, since you have had bariatric surgery, I assume you are still under the monitoring of your physician or a R.D.?, talk to them if you are deciding to do any changes on your diet, please!.
Best luck to you.