Consider the story of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who in 1938 accidentally, or maybe not so accidentally, flew east from New York to Ireland, when he was supposed to be flying west to California. Corrigan had been trying for years to get permission for a transatlantic flight. When the federal aviation authorities repeatedly refused, it seems, he just decided to go anyway. Wrong Way Corrigan never admitted that he made the flight deliberately. His 1938 autobiography was titled "That's My Story."Corrigan was in the air for 28 hours. What did he bring to eat? Two chocolate bars, two boxes of fig bars, and a quart of water.
There was another famous "Wrong Way" character. Even before Corrigan's flight, Ron Riegels, a University of California football player, in the 1929 Rose Bowl against Georgia Tech, got spun around on the field and ran the ball 74 yards in the wrong direction, contributing to an 8-7 loss.
I don't know what Wrong Way Riegels ate that day, besides crow and humble pie, but for years after, people would send him gag gifts, reportedly including upside-down cakes.
All this is to say with puzzlement and regret that having established my blog to chart my weight loss progress, my weight has gone not down but up. I need to think about this, don't I? I don't want to be David "Wrong Way" Weinstock.
I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
A quote from my notable quote file:
ReplyDelete"I can't get over the number of women who seem to think that because I flew the Atlantic I would make a perfect husband."
-- Douglas Groce "Wrong Way" Corrigan
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ReplyDeleteFear is stimulating, too. Fear that you might actually lose weight. Consider what you have to lose besides the weight and the enjoyment and satisfaction of food.
You haven't bene overweight all your life. When was it that you started to gain serious weight? Was it after a traumatic event of some kind? What was going on at that time in your life?
The term they use is "cathexis." A fancy term for "holding on." Your weight may be the physical concomitant of emotionally holding on to something or someone. If you are not ready to say goodbye to the object of the cathexis, weight loss will be even harder, especially if you are unaware of the connection.
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