Comments on: Don’t touch that diet!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:49:23 +0000

You are a great testament to the fallacy of dieting. It really is just a lifestyle change, isn’t it – eating to live rather than living to eat.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:43:30 +0000

Writing this as I finish up my bowl of “oats!” I’ve not “dieted” for years! Just using the word, put me in a BINGE mood! I absolutely just don’t eat like I use to. We still have the snacks (just ask Sarah, Beth, Neale and Alyson!), but I rarely touch them after indulging in the first bite from the bag.

And when I got on the scale this morning, something I also rarely do, I am below 140….phenomenal! Don’t know if I’m in a “healthy” state, but I do feel I am no longer “fat!”

Have a Wonderful Wednesday. (I wonder if you are notified that I this post is here 4 months after you’ve written this blog!?)

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By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:05:32 +0000

Yvonne, I think I have several “wise” ones. Wonder how that came about?

Re: keeping the temptations out of the house. The grocery store is certainly the first battleground. You know what they say: Stick to the outside aisles!

Oh — the separate little icons? You can thank WordPress for that. It comes with the software. I’m certainly not clever enough to design them.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:03:09 +0000

The “pejorative connotation,” Jan? That’s one of those phrases I understand in context but would never think to use. It is a great word; I’ll see if I can work it in somewhere sometime.

And thanks for your endorsement of my thoughts. If you do it right, the best kind of eating can also be the simplest.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:55:57 +0000

Looks like you got a wise one there, Cheryl!

wish I was as smart about keeping temptations out of the house.

By the way, I REALLY like the separate little icons for all commentators. Makes it easy to see who has two comments…

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:58:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with what you have written. And I absolutely agree with you about the pejorative connotation to the word ‘diet’. Unless we’re fasting, we’re all on a diet! What’s ‘in’ the diet makes all the difference.
Also, I have no scientific evidence to back any of this up, but it makes sense to me, and helped me shed some unwanted weight. I eat whenever I want. Whenever I get hungry I eat… I just don’t sit down and make a big meal. I always have fresh fruit, baby carrots and raw broccoli in the fridge, and a bag of raw almonds at my desk. When I get hungry, that’s where I go. It’s quick, easy, there’s no mess to clean up, and I eat until I feel satisfied. Repeat as necessary. At this point, I only make one meal a day, the rest is snacking.
It helps not to buy bags of potato chips or pretzels or Good n Plenty when shopping, because if that stuffs in the house, that’s where I go first. I don’t even go down those aisles any more… don’t need the temptation!