tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post428053943523347907..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: Overeating and SpaciousnessBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-27193049792725997922015-05-13T00:51:51.497-04:002015-05-13T00:51:51.497-04:00I have a similar problem. Not the same as yours, b...I have a similar problem. Not the same as yours, but I'm a Type I diabetic. The next time you see your doctor, I'd ask about seeing a dietician. When I was initially diagnosed, I was told that diet will be as important as insulin. You don't have to go on any special diet. You just have to eat right.<br /><br />And exercise helps, too. It doesn't have to be something big. Just walk or take the stairs....Roger Bryanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15432565078138766802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-6609888912923361192015-05-11T22:23:02.600-04:002015-05-11T22:23:02.600-04:00Contemplation might be good, but direction from a...Contemplation might be good, but direction from an experienced nutritionist might be better. The Mediterranean diet is supposed to be among the healthiest in the world, and that diet includes the foods of southern Italy. If ones needs to change their diet and eating habits to something healthier, you are in one of the the best places to do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-55406187902374315762015-05-11T10:47:26.060-04:002015-05-11T10:47:26.060-04:00I too have grown up over weight. I was called eve...I too have grown up over weight. I was called everything but my name in school. After many years I asked God to make me like everyone else. He has answered my prayer. My highest weight was 245 pounds. Now many decades later, and the answer to my prayer, I now weigh 135 pounds. I have quit eating out, beef, chicken and turkey. Growth hormones they feed animals can, I feel, make people grow fast too. I still eat my favorite sweets but my weight stays the same. I have read that the body isn't anything it is the soul that counts. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-73040868216069889332015-05-11T04:18:15.505-04:002015-05-11T04:18:15.505-04:00Thanks for the encouragement!Thanks for the encouragement!Brother Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-208117277804845662015-05-10T21:51:11.168-04:002015-05-10T21:51:11.168-04:00I was told that Saint John of the Cross was a grea...I was told that Saint John of the Cross was a great big fat guy. Mystics seem to always be depicted as rail thin. They all weren't. I want to say something that is not meant at all as a criticism, but because I'd like to see you think about this differently for a minute.<br /><br /><i>What if there's nothing wrong with you?</i> What if you are beating on yourself (since the people who used to beat on you for it needed to be replaced when you grew up) for no fault at all? <br /><br />Think about this propensity to eat and the concomitant ease with which you convert food to fat and your fairly low metabolism and realize these are all things evolution selects that would make you king of the cave during an ice age. They are GOOD things.<br /><br />But we don't live in caves and need to slaughter, butcher and preserve an entire mammoth in week, or survive on our body fat through a long dark winter, anymore. So, people who have this trait, this natural and life-sustaining trait, need to find new eating strategies in modern times. <br /><br />You do not need to starve yourself. You do not need to think this is something wrong with you that has to be "fixed." If any of this makes a bit of sense to you and you want, reply here and I'll give you a few links and recommendations about changes that have nothing to do with deprivation. You can damage your heart, okay? SRSLY. Metaphysical Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09004142095206002993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-67082175433810451902015-05-09T05:46:05.059-04:002015-05-09T05:46:05.059-04:00Thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to lo...Thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to look it up!Brother Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-32067995889295498192015-05-09T05:42:19.515-04:002015-05-09T05:42:19.515-04:00Thank you for that! This post certainly speaks to ...Thank you for that! This post certainly speaks to me on both subjects of overeating and of contemplation. God is beginning to show me that contemplation is the cure for many things... one being acedia (sloth). Just reading 'The Noonday Devil - Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times' by Jean-Charles Nault OSB, Abbot of Saint Wandrille with a forward by Marc Cardinal Ouellet.Sara Harvey-Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057405059069401942noreply@blogger.com