Comments on: Jesse the Sagittarian: big, Bigger, BIGGEST

By: Dina

Dina — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:00:33 +0000

Eventually my body tells me to stop. Like when the holidays roll around and after 3 days of sneaking leftover pie after 10, I’m sitting there trying to work with my eyes rolling back in my head and all I want is MORE PIE.

I go on a semi-vedge diet to try and undo the damange, and I run every day with my dogs. It’s interesting though, that I can’t get out of my “string bean body” mentality from childhood where I ate whatever I wanted and still got asked if I was anorexic.

Those days are GONE and I’m looking more like my chubby Italian grandma (she’s gone too ) every day.

By: SaDiablo

SaDiablo — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:37:00 +0000

Jupiter rising in Cancer… Hell, yes, I over-indulge! In everything, really, but mostly with food.

I’ve learned that the best method for me is food journalling plus a restricted calorie diet (slightly over my basal metabolic rate) combined with about an hour and a half of exercise a day (30 min cardio the rest weights). And, since I’m a hedonistic eater, I don’t fight my cravings. I just eat less of whatever it is I’m craving – otherwise I’ll eat, say, an apple when I want pasta. Then yogurt, then half a sandwich, and so on and so on because I want pasta, dammit, and nothing else will do! And I end up eating way more calories than if I would’ve just had some ramen sprinkled with parmesan in the first place.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:55:04 +0000

I have jupiter in my first house so yeah, I know how you feel. I don’t have a sweet tooth but…I like salt & crunch & carbs so…tater chips and fries are my weaknesses.

By: shell

shell — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:41:07 +0000

I’m a yo-yo over-indulger.
To counteract it, I yo-yo work-out.

Bad thing, I know.

By: wyrdling

wyrdling — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:37:25 +0000

i focus on the chocolate craving. one bit of really really good dark dark chocolate with lots of chocolate mass and cocoa butter and not so much butter, milk, and sugar goes a really long way. a lot farther than chocolate chip cookies.

so, i focus down hard on what i’m really craving and ignore extraneous stuff. still a lot of calories, but i make every single one count!

By: dreamsAreality

dreamsAreality — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:44:26 +0000

“I am like a kid for sweet things. And by the way, why don’t you ever have a pudding at your tablydott (table d’h´te), Mr Schomberg? Nothing but fruit, morning, noon and night. Sickening! What do you think a fellow is – a wasp?” ~Victory, by Joseph Conrad

By: Alma

Alma — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:05:08 +0000

I need to quit sugar also. I am dreading it – it was my very first addiction and has lasted my entire life. I used to eat Kool-aid mix, lemonade mix, even Tang powder. I would put sugar on my ice-cream.
I guess I have to give up carbs also? I would kill right now for a big squashy piece of white italian bread slathered with grainy honey from Sicily. Or marmalade. Or raspberry preserves.

Yes, I have a million cavities.

By: Valkyrie

Valkyrie — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:50:44 +0000

Thanks for that reminder, Kathy. That’s been my experience too. It takes about 3 days of serious withdrawal symptoms, then I forget why I even liked sugar. (But it’s still easy to get back on the stuff.)

This will be how I ring in Pluto-in-Capricorn. Out with the sugar!

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:44:49 +0000

I have a sick addiction for good quality chocolate. I just can’t stop eating them! I have a weakness for chocolate with coconut as well.. My Jupiter is in Virgo in 5th in my natal chart.

How I counteract this? A LOT of physical activity! Having an Aries Sun and Ascendant naturally drives me to physical activity. I train for races (currently working on Half marathon training) and I occasionally weight train, yoga, and attend dance classes (for creativity since I am a creative).

That’s how I counteract my chocolate addiction

By: Elsa

Elsa — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:28:21 +0000

kathy – same here. Did the same thing but fell off the wagon. Back on for 2 days now. Ugh.,