Fighting the Dark Cloud of pudge!!

Thank you so much for the comments on my blog.  It is nice to meet new (well new to me) bloggers!  We just trudge onward!

I was thinking about learned helplessness and wondered if there was a parallel for being overweight.  Learned helplessness is something you find with the disabled (deaf, blind, physically) whereby they simply say “I am blind” and people help them.  So, they never really learn to take care of themselves.  Being in the field of Special Education, I have learned a fair amount about that. Not sure why it came to mind as I  don;t have any students in that situation right now (although I have had students who said “I can’t do that I am special ed” before - and I cut them off at the knees<not literally> with that one).

I wondered if maybe we get so used to being overweight, and the people around us expect us to be overweight that we fall into a pudge helplessness.   When we change it gives people an initial shock - good or bad.  No doubt it gives us one too. We hate being pudged but it is a safe place as we know it and are used to it.  Perhaps that is why we (at least I) self sabotage.  We work hard to lose the weight but then overindulge and gain it back (and often it brings friends it met in our absence with it).

Someone once told me that if you have an ache/illness in your body it is due to something in your mind.  I wonder if this is the same thing. At some level anyway.

Food for thought?!!  (pun intended!)