Carleen and Mike » 2003 » October » 21 http://www.huggin.net/blog Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Volumetrics http://www.huggin.net/blog/2003/10/21/volumetrics/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2003/10/21/volumetrics/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:19:29 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=52 I’ve suffered from binge eating problems since I was a teenager. I was active enough then that I could get away with it, but my body’s changing now and so is my activity level. This bothers me only because it represents an inability to be disciplined and have control of myself. I think that’s the main reason I quit smoking because I realized one day how much it controlled my life. I had to work my day around when I was going to have a cigarette and I didn’t like that. My health is important to me and I want being healthy to be a natural thing, not something I constantly think about all day every day. Here lately, it has been. I’ve already mentioned my intolorence for fad diets. I don’t believe in deprivation and I will not be on a diet that makes me feel deprived. I think I’ve found an answer. I discovered in my “back issues” of health magazines at home an article on something called Volumetrics. I will not even attempt to explain what it because I’ll probably get it all wrong, but instead I’ll just provide some links at the end of this entry. Most important, I can eat chocolate, I can eat potatoes, I can eat meat, there aren’t any crazy ratio’s to remember or any calorie counting involved. It’s basic philosophy seems to be based around eating until your full. However, it doesn’t seem to deal with the issue of emotional eating which I think is one of the major causes for binge eating in this day and age. I’ve checked out a book so I can read up on it some more. It’s called Volumetrics by Barbara Rolls.

Volumetrics
study conducted by Barbara Rolls
Shape magazine survey

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