What a thoughtful, smart, well-written post. You took all of my feelings about my (again!) New Year's Resolution to (again!) lose the weight for good, and wrote about them in depth. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the reminder that what we do in the short term (diet just to fit in our "skinny jeans") hurts us in the long run.
On Dr. Oz yesterday, he had a segment on weight and heart health. He had a tape of open-heart surgery (bypass) from a patient who also had a severe weight problem. The heart was there, beating in the patient's chest, with fat growing all over it the same way you see fat marbled into meat in the grocer's case. It was horrifying, watching the heart struggle to do its job while carrying those pieces of yellow fat. It made the overweight people on the show -- and me -- visualize our own hearts, wondering what they look like and if there is fat that impedes their work.
It was a wake-up video for sure. And your post only emphasizes it more. There are no quick fixes for something as important as our heart.
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Mary,
What a thoughtful, smart, well-written post. You took all of my feelings about my (again!) New Year's Resolution to (again!) lose the weight for good, and wrote about them in depth. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the reminder that what we do in the short term (diet just to fit in our "skinny jeans") hurts us in the long run.
On Dr. Oz yesterday, he had a segment on weight and heart health. He had a tape of open-heart surgery (bypass) from a patient who also had a severe weight problem. The heart was there, beating in the patient's chest, with fat growing all over it the same way you see fat marbled into meat in the grocer's case. It was horrifying, watching the heart struggle to do its job while carrying those pieces of yellow fat. It made the overweight people on the show -- and me -- visualize our own hearts, wondering what they look like and if there is fat that impedes their work.
It was a wake-up video for sure. And your post only emphasizes it more. There are no quick fixes for something as important as our heart.
January 14, 2010 - 9:06amThis Comment
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