Crazy Diet Stories. I know you have them.
October 11th, 2008 by Christine
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A friend of mine and I were discussing diets we’ve tried. Have you ever played this game? The “Oh, I did THAT diet” and the “OH, yes! I remember eating frozen grapes for two weeks!”
No? You don’t play the Diet Story game? Well, consider it your lucky day. Today? We play.
I mentioned before that I was reading the French Women Don’t Get Fat book. In this book she recommends Leak Soup for a one weekend purifier to start the program. My friend and I laughed. “That reminds me of the time…” and off we started playing the Diet Stories game.
So far, to date, I’ve done the following diets:
- South Beach
- French Women
- Body For Life
- Low Glycemic
- High Carb, Low Fat
- Running-all-
the-time-and-not-eating - Various SELF magazine diet plans
- and writing down, daily, my consumption. For. Three. Years. (1992-1995)
Wow. I wish I had a dime for every time I said I was hungry. I’d have a lot of dimes. Which in turn would pay for my high chocolate and wine and coffee consumption now-a-days.
My point is this (Hi! I have a point!) we do crazy things to get the ‘body of our dreams,’ but is the body of our dreams really worth those crazy things? Or is it worth making the healthy choice to get up, work out, drink water, fill your tummy will good food and get enough sleep?
15 years after my first diet, I’m only now starting to learn. How about you? Share your stories with us in the comments…and then? Let’s start being healthy. The non-diet way.
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April 24th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Oh God, I read “Leak Soup” and thought it was some sort of Alli-side-effect-type cleansing diet. Urgh.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Not a big fan of dieting either. But to please my healthy husband we are trying to “eat better”. Turns out its the best diet I’ve ever done.
So simple - eat more raw - eat less meat. Exercise. Not radical - just a little better than you ate last year … and then a little better.
New reader by the way - thanks for your great site.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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October 13th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I don’t know about the Leek Soup, but I did like the rest of French Women Don’t Get Fat. It was pretty straight forward. Eat food, not too much, know when to say when, and drink water. Wouldn’t life be great if that were as easy as it sounds?