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The enemy of my enemy is my friend... or is it?

SubduedBlues
Blue Voices Member
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In battle, there is an aged old saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." This means that there is military advantage to form alliance with your first enemies other enemies; so that together you can conquer your first enemy.

Recently there has been discussion about healthy eating and being healthy. But oftentimes I find that eating healthy and regular exercise does not result in being a healthy weight. Another great saying that I once heard is: "nothing is more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal's," which basically means that there is no one solution fixes every problem. So telling me to not eat the sugars I don't eat, or to cut back on the processed food I don't eat, doesn't really teach me anything. It's like you are telling me to make my water wet.

Hmm... maybe best to look at "Why do I have Fat?"

A current reality tree (CRT) is a way of analyzing many systems or organizational problems at once. By identifying root causes common to most or all of the problems, a CRT can greatly aid focused improvement of the system. So if the system is my body, I should be able to use a CRT to find the cause of Fat.

I eat healthy and I exercise regularly, both of which do not lend themselves to having Fat, so it must be something else. What about volumes? Can too much healthy foods make you fat; possibly. Eating too much healthy food makes you fat. So, according to the CRT, my problem is eating too much. So I tried to eat single servings instead of double-triple serves, but Fat stays with me. And I need to get rid of this enemy called Fat. So, if my enemy is Fat. And, Fat's enemy is skinny. Then Skinny is my friend. So how do I get Skinny? If I ate how Skinny eats, would I not just be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire?

So many questions, no real answers

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I was thinking about your comments on being comfortable with one's own body image. Then I wondered what kind of comfortable a person needs to be to participate in that charity fun-run where everyone runs about the city streets in their underwear.

gld
Community Member

Just a thought, could it make it easier to enter a fun run if you pictured in your mind everyone not wearing anything. I feel it could put a smile on your dial while you are attempting to complete the run.

SubduedBlues
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member
if you really want to go down that road, gld, where everybody is wearing nothing... then the Sydney Skinny is your go; it's an annual charity nudie swim. Though the uncomfortable bits are beneath the surface of the water, there is always that dreaded 50m walk from your towel to the water, where everyone gets to see what you're actually made of. 🙂