Wish you could talk to government and health specialists who keep going on about an obesity crisis!! Maybe then they would actually learn a thing or too. Your words and understanding would be so beneficial for these people to hear!!
Thank GOD for you Tabitha. I'm in recovery and I'm all in, fully committed. This obesity fear just hit me since I'm eating only all the food I've been forbidding myself to eat. THANK YOU 😘
Would love to get rid of the use of the terms "overweight" and "obese" and particularly "morbidly obese" because those terms pathologize weight.. we don't call someone who is tall "overheight" or "morbidly overheight", do we?
I would really love to find some "hibernation type" people that make videos/blogs overcoming ED in a larger body, any tips?? I can't find any :( Anyways, great content as usual, keep up the good work!!!!!!! Immensly thankfull for how you have changed my life for the better❤
During my time in recovery and most of my ED, I had to literally force myself to move and eat, as my body's genetic response is to hibernate and conserve energy by eating in extremely small quantities, as I was only eating around 400-600 calories a day during the lowest point of my ED.
I was over fed as a kid...and i could eat tons without a thought. And my body defintiely falls into hibernation as a response. So. Terrifying combo of genetics for women esp. Hence i yo-yo dieted for 30-some years. And now. A bit into recovery, im 200lbs+, my bmi is probably around 45% (bcuz its been that numerous times before), and i went from a diet induced size 12 to a 24 in about 6 months. And im in my 40s. Single. So. My mental state is a giant mess atm. Accepting my body as is...a foreign concept and utterly difficult.
I completely believe in the migration response theory but always just wonder where does it fit in this theory when you are a person who severely restricts but do not over exercise at all? I have severe persisting anorexia for 14 years but never over exercised or never binged once.
Wow you have never ate a lot of food ? I have been super hyper when I was very low weight but as I got older restriction made me tired and slow I do believe that people who diet end up large once they start eating but I also think if people consistently overeat beyond their satiety slowly body adjusts to larger amount of food to be physically satisfied and it can get progressively worse when body weight goes up ....
Yes i am same here. I have never had exercise addiction. I purged after binging through self induced vomiting but never purged through excessive exercises. In fact i am an abusive smoker and i want a little vit exercise in order to diminish smoking.
I never binged, but did over excercise. Rather than being a migration response (or maybe looking at it from a different angle) my need to primarily walk (8 hrs a day at one point) seemed to be a way of getting back into ketosis after eating an apple or what I considered a meal...So as soon as carbs bought me out of ketosis, there was an overwhelming need to get back in....Of course, I never knew any of this at the time, I just knew that my anxiety went up after eating and walking brought it down....If I wasn't eating at all or under xxx amount per day, the compulsion didnt exist.
@@Mikathedog100 I really resonate with what you say. I thought I was sensitive to carbohydrates, but i think i really was misinterpreting the energy in my brain after eating them. I notice a shift when I have burned off the glucose back into the state that seemed natural to me (starvation). Interesting, gives me food for thought today!
car. A this resonates with me too!! I don’t feel well or energized after eating. It creates lots of anxiety and I believe it’s not all mental. I too feel more comfortable in my body physically when under eating. How are you doing with this?
it makes me want to hit and throw things. and with some ppl even in these comments going "what about overweight kids" like yes theres genetic theories regarding the mothers restriction pre-pregnancy. but ultimately some people are just born in larger bodies !!!!! like. theres no reason that has to be behind it, they were just born that way and thats how theyre healthy and how their body works optimally. the fatphobia rampant in our culture is just insane
I really want this to be true but I'm scared it's not. Because my dad became morbidly obese and very ill becauseof it and he never restricted and didn't want to. He never used to be that way. He was pretty thin most of his life. But then he changed and would eat like straightup chunks of butter on toast and things like that and anything tasty but in excessive quantities. And he said it was because he wanted nice things and foodtastes nice and so why shouldn't he. But he wasn't hungry. He said he wasn't. He just wanted to consume nice stuff. And he still has that attitude and my mom has to help him be careful because he almost died. I'm ery scared that I will do the same because when I was a kid, I would eat just to make myself feel better, even if I felt sick from overeating. I did not diet before my eating disorder started. So is this only true for some people? I don't understand.
Some people get bigger bc they lower their metabolism by yo yo dieting but I don’t think they become morbidly obese but some people eat just to eat whether they are hungry or not , they have taste for high calorie foods , they develop a habit of constant munching while doing something else at the desk job or for some eating their favorite foods is a greatest pleasure of all and don’t care how much they eat even if they are not hungry anymore Also highly palatable foods are dense in calories but don’t keep you full for long so if they eat like that all day every day the weight gain is very likely unless they have genetically super high metabolism Most majority of people are average weight more or less and don’t stuff themselves with those foods all the time bc it doesn’t make them feel great but some have no problems with how they feel after and nothing really stops them that’s how they get very big I had s friend who could eat entire cake in one sitting, don’t feel sick after and have never restricted her food but she wasn’t big at all but not everyone has genetics for that
Also I’m originally from Ukraine and I didn’t know a single woman who wasn’t dieting or watching what she ate at some point in her life and none of them were obese and if you walk around in Ukraine you will not find a lot of very overweight people some but not a lot ... when I came to US I was shocked how many people are just huge and how they got there...
I think the important thing here is that you said he would eat when he wasn’t hungry. It’s all about listening to your body, if you are eating when your body is saying it really doesn’t want food that seems to be the problem?
@@lenajazuk4231 I became obese from dieting.Its a long story,but I did lower my metabolism and when I would eat just a bit more than my low cals I would gain it doesnt take a ton of extra caloroes to gain when you have dieted and lowered you metabolism .I never binged ,what people think is binge.No mindless eating,intact I ate super clean and then became a whole food plant based vegan for quite sometime.I didnt lose weight,so matter what I did.Oh and I exercises religiously too. .Maybe your friends dieted for short periods and didnt disrupt their bodys signals.The longer you diet ,the more hormonal disruptions.
@@lenajazuk4231 girl everything you are saying is your Ed talking. Your wrong all the way. Have you even listened to tabithas videos ? I mean like multiple of them ? A normal person, that have no calorie deficit, will nether eat out of boredom or just “unconsciously” at their desk like ur saying. All your words are so full of diet culture BS ! The body, if in energy balance and no mental restriction will never do that. However, if the person is dieting, or has an history of dieting, or has trauma, stress, depression, then yeah ! But certainly not a regular human who has been out of energy deficit. Tabitha did tons of videos explaining this. Please don’t give bullshit informations like this ! It could be so triggering for new ones in recovery. But if you are thinking like this, you are certainly not in recovery
I totally agree with this! I also think that we have to consider that not every food gets digested the same. The energy of a banana isn't digested the same as that same amount of energy in a chocolate bar...
I have met a few obese persons that did not diet, and did not grow up in an dieting culture. I think the dieting is devastating in most cases, but that there are a few people that has something genetical in their rewarding system or in other system that regulate eating, that will make them unhealthy obese if the truly do not restrict. For example there are Prader Willis syndrome, so it is not unlikely that there wont be other persons with other conditions or system traits, making the appetite system not work properly. I have autism, and I grew up in a normal weight family that never did any dieting or talked about it. I was 3-4 years old when I started to talk about and wanting to be as thin as a cartoon figure. I was 13 years old when I learned that one can regulate weight by what one eats (I know it sounds strange, but noone talked about weight or diets in my family so I did not know, and it was in the early 80s so children did not talk about this as early as nowadays). I became anorexic from that day. My autism was obvious from childhood, so it is not something that suddenly where there when I got ED. But some OCD stuff got worse of course. When I have met some other autistics, I notieced we have strange food behaviour similarities. Like obsessed with eating sugar (many, as I, ate sugar from the bag if we could, or found pure sugars to be better than bisquits and candy). I never hear normal people eat this strange (if they are not in a toxic eating environment or seams to have trauma problems). I believe that I myself as an example has something wrong with my rewarding system, making me get drawn to plain sugar, and also something wrong with how I think, since I desperately wanted to be as thin as someone almost dying from starvation (I liked the thinthin look). And from experience from hundreds of other autistics I have met through the years, I think we often have traits that make us odd eating behaviourvise. OCD and BDD are common amongst people with autism, as is eating disorders (EDs of sometimes odd variations, but also the common ones). I have severe BDD, so severe I are not allowed more treatment since they decided I was untreatable. But one can only get CBT where I live, and if it do not work, it is goog bye. I believe people like me need acceptance therapy. I am NOT saying obesity problems are never due to dieting, not at all. But as a person that allways are amongst the "odd 10 %" I just wanted to point out this. I wish someone would have told me as a young adult, that there are allways people that works in odd ways, and that is nothing wrong, it just has to be handled in another way that for most (if necessary).
Wish you could talk to government and health specialists who keep going on about an obesity crisis!! Maybe then they would actually learn a thing or too. Your words and understanding would be so beneficial for these people to hear!!
I agree. I think obesity is caused either by being brought up from childhood to ignore hunger and satiety cues, or dieting.
Thank GOD for you Tabitha. I'm in recovery and I'm all in, fully committed. This obesity fear just hit me since I'm eating only all the food I've been forbidding myself to eat. THANK YOU 😘
This makes 100% sense and I'm amazed. Everything I've ever been told about obesity growing up was a lie.
Would love to get rid of the use of the terms "overweight" and "obese" and particularly "morbidly obese" because those terms pathologize weight.. we don't call someone who is tall "overheight" or "morbidly overheight", do we?
Your thumbnails for your videos make me smile/laugh. Love it. Thanks for your brief yet powerful videos. :)
I would really love to find some "hibernation type" people that make videos/blogs overcoming ED in a larger body, any tips?? I can't find any :(
Anyways, great content as usual, keep up the good work!!!!!!! Immensly thankfull for how you have changed my life for the better❤
During my time in recovery and most of my ED, I had to literally force myself to move and eat, as my body's genetic response is to hibernate and conserve energy by eating in extremely small quantities, as I was only eating around 400-600 calories a day during the lowest point of my ED.
I was over fed as a kid...and i could eat tons without a thought. And my body defintiely falls into hibernation as a response.
So. Terrifying combo of genetics for women esp.
Hence i yo-yo dieted for 30-some years.
And now. A bit into recovery, im 200lbs+, my bmi is probably around 45% (bcuz its been that numerous times before), and i went from a diet induced size 12 to a 24 in about 6 months.
And im in my 40s. Single.
So. My mental state is a giant mess atm. Accepting my body as is...a foreign concept and utterly difficult.
How are you now?
How are you doing now?
I completely believe in the migration response theory but always just wonder where does it fit in this theory when you are a person who severely restricts but do not over exercise at all? I have severe persisting anorexia for 14 years but never over exercised or never binged once.
Wow you have never ate a lot of food ?
I have been super hyper when I was very low weight but as I got older restriction made me tired and slow
I do believe that people who diet end up large once they start eating but I also think if people consistently overeat beyond their satiety slowly body adjusts to larger amount of food to be physically satisfied and it can get progressively worse when body weight goes up ....
Yes i am same here. I have never had exercise addiction. I purged after binging through self induced vomiting but never purged through excessive exercises. In fact i am an abusive smoker and i want a little vit exercise in order to diminish smoking.
I never binged, but did over excercise. Rather than being a migration response (or maybe looking at it from a different angle) my need to primarily walk (8 hrs a day at one point) seemed to be a way of getting back into ketosis after eating an apple or what I considered a meal...So as soon as carbs bought me out of ketosis, there was an overwhelming need to get back in....Of course, I never knew any of this at the time, I just knew that my anxiety went up after eating and walking brought it down....If I wasn't eating at all or under xxx amount per day, the compulsion didnt exist.
@@Mikathedog100 I really resonate with what you say. I thought I was sensitive to carbohydrates, but i think i really was misinterpreting the energy in my brain after eating them. I notice a shift when I have burned off the glucose back into the state that seemed natural to me (starvation). Interesting, gives me food for thought today!
car. A this resonates with me too!! I don’t feel well or energized after eating. It creates lots of anxiety and I believe it’s not all mental. I too feel more comfortable in my body physically when under eating. How are you doing with this?
it makes me want to hit and throw things. and with some ppl even in these comments going "what about overweight kids" like yes theres genetic theories regarding the mothers restriction pre-pregnancy. but ultimately some people are just born in larger bodies !!!!! like. theres no reason that has to be behind it, they were just born that way and thats how theyre healthy and how their body works optimally. the fatphobia rampant in our culture is just insane
It's nice to realise that, but what is less nice is that society isnt ready to change
I really want this to be true but I'm scared it's not. Because my dad became morbidly obese and very ill becauseof it and he never restricted and didn't want to. He never used to be that way. He was pretty thin most of his life. But then he changed and would eat like straightup chunks of butter on toast and things like that and anything tasty but in excessive quantities. And he said it was because he wanted nice things and foodtastes nice and so why shouldn't he. But he wasn't hungry. He said he wasn't. He just wanted to consume nice stuff. And he still has that attitude and my mom has to help him be careful because he almost died. I'm ery scared that I will do the same because when I was a kid, I would eat just to make myself feel better, even if I felt sick from overeating. I did not diet before my eating disorder started. So is this only true for some people? I don't understand.
Some people get bigger bc they lower their metabolism by yo yo dieting but I don’t think they become morbidly obese but some people eat just to eat whether they are hungry or not , they have taste for high calorie foods , they develop a habit of constant munching while doing something else at the desk job or for some eating their favorite foods is a greatest pleasure of all and don’t care how much they eat even if they are not hungry anymore
Also highly palatable foods are dense in calories but don’t keep you full for long so if they eat like that all day every day the weight gain is very likely unless they have genetically super high metabolism
Most majority of people are average weight more or less and don’t stuff themselves with those foods all the time bc it doesn’t make them feel great but some have no problems with how they feel after and nothing really stops them that’s how they get very big
I had s friend who could eat entire cake in one sitting, don’t feel sick after and have never restricted her food but she wasn’t big at all but not everyone has genetics for that
Also I’m originally from Ukraine and I didn’t know a single woman who wasn’t dieting or watching what she ate at some point in her life and none of them were obese and if you walk around in Ukraine you will not find a lot of very overweight people some but not a lot ... when I came to US I was shocked how many people are just huge and how they got there...
I think the important thing here is that you said he would eat when he wasn’t hungry. It’s all about listening to your body, if you are eating when your body is saying it really doesn’t want food that seems to be the problem?
@@lenajazuk4231 I became obese from dieting.Its a long story,but I did lower my metabolism and when I would eat just a bit more than my low cals I would gain it doesnt take a ton of extra caloroes to gain when you have dieted and lowered you metabolism .I never binged ,what people think is binge.No mindless eating,intact I ate super clean and then became a whole food plant based vegan for quite sometime.I didnt lose weight,so matter what I did.Oh and I exercises religiously too.
.Maybe your friends dieted for short periods and didnt disrupt their bodys signals.The longer you diet ,the more hormonal disruptions.
@@lenajazuk4231 girl everything you are saying is your Ed talking. Your wrong all the way. Have you even listened to tabithas videos ? I mean like multiple of them ? A normal person, that have no calorie deficit, will nether eat out of boredom or just “unconsciously” at their desk like ur saying. All your words are so full of diet culture BS ! The body, if in energy balance and no mental restriction will never do that. However, if the person is dieting, or has an history of dieting, or has trauma, stress, depression, then yeah ! But certainly not a regular human who has been out of energy deficit. Tabitha did tons of videos explaining this. Please don’t give bullshit informations like this ! It could be so triggering for new ones in recovery. But if you are thinking like this, you are certainly not in recovery
A person in a thin body can also be healthy. It's the story behind what you see.
Uhhh she said it
I totally agree with this! I also think that we have to consider that not every food gets digested the same. The energy of a banana isn't digested the same as that same amount of energy in a chocolate bar...
@TabithaFarrar If you can be obese and healthy could you then not be healthy and underweight?
that is the debate on eugenia cooney at the moment. She claims she is perfectly healthy at her current weight
I have met a few obese persons that did not diet, and did not grow up in an dieting culture. I think the dieting is devastating in most cases, but that there are a few people that has something genetical in their rewarding system or in other system that regulate eating, that will make them unhealthy obese if the truly do not restrict.
For example there are Prader Willis syndrome, so it is not unlikely that there wont be other persons with other conditions or system traits, making the appetite system not work properly.
I have autism, and I grew up in a normal weight family that never did any dieting or talked about it. I was 3-4 years old when I started to talk about and wanting to be as thin as a cartoon figure. I was 13 years old when I learned that one can regulate weight by what one eats (I know it sounds strange, but noone talked about weight or diets in my family so I did not know, and it was in the early 80s so children did not talk about this as early as nowadays). I became anorexic from that day.
My autism was obvious from childhood, so it is not something that suddenly where there when I got ED. But some OCD stuff got worse of course. When I have met some other autistics, I notieced we have strange food behaviour similarities. Like obsessed with eating sugar (many, as I, ate sugar from the bag if we could, or found pure sugars to be better than bisquits and candy). I never hear normal people eat this strange (if they are not in a toxic eating environment or seams to have trauma problems).
I believe that I myself as an example has something wrong with my rewarding system, making me get drawn to plain sugar, and also something wrong with how I think, since I desperately wanted to be as thin as someone almost dying from starvation (I liked the thinthin look).
And from experience from hundreds of other autistics I have met through the years, I think we often have traits that make us odd eating behaviourvise.
OCD and BDD are common amongst people with autism, as is eating disorders (EDs of sometimes odd variations, but also the common ones). I have severe BDD, so severe I are not allowed more treatment since they decided I was untreatable. But one can only get CBT where I live, and if it do not work, it is goog bye. I believe people like me need acceptance therapy.
I am NOT saying obesity problems are never due to dieting, not at all. But as a person that allways are amongst the "odd 10 %" I just wanted to point out this. I wish someone would have told me as a young adult, that there are allways people that works in odd ways, and that is nothing wrong, it just has to be handled in another way that for most (if necessary).
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Dieting causes all these problems but fasting cures them all.
Your body regenerates while losing the weight you want to.
@Fxck ig did you take electrolytes?