The hardest thing about not dieting is when a friend loses a ton of weight on a diet and looks great! Seeing my friend's weight loss has increased the temptation to start dieting again. I won't do it because I really want to follow through with my experiment and follow through with all of you. I truly believe that diets make people who are already in a normal weight range more fat.
Here's why...Every time I go on a diet the first few days/weeks are great! I see a loss and immediately feel like my life is running much more smoothly than it ever has before. Then the deprivation starts to set in and all I can think about is whatever I am restricting myself from eating. Sometimes fruit, sometimes bread, sometimes ice cream, and any other number of forbidden items. I end up super stressed and if something negative happens, I run to the prohibited food for comfort.
I have to admit, today was the first day (since I started a week ago) that I felt a noticeable difference. My thoughts were not consumed by food and I was noticeably happier. It is incredibly relaxing and freeing to not be consumed with calories, POINTS, or fat grams. Even though I was tempted to count calories and lose weight like my friend, I'm glad I didn't. I posted this pic of Sara Ramirez, of Grey's Anatomy, because I think she's beautiful and bountiful.
Why?
06 March 2008
I think I can, I think I can...
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Sad thing is, Sara doesn't look like that at this point. She's dropped over 30 pounds since the beginning of the writer's strike back in November. While not a size 0 (thank god), she's lost those signature curves. She's lucky enough to be gorgeous at any size, but I loved her curvy.
Best of luck with your experiment. I am very interested in your progress.
That is sad. I wonder what happened?
She said stress, mostly. Out of work. Hating LA. Trying to figure out what to do. She came to the east coast and was happier. Now she is heading back. She's never been as big as she appeared on the show. It really does add 10 pounds or more.
At my brother's work place everyone's on this special diet food, in the form of a cookie--he calls it The Cookie Zombies. And he's having that same problem, where people are losing weight and they're all "wooo I look great", while he's just trying to eat healthy and cut his portion size.
The thing I think people also forget about dieting etc. is that your body needs a wide variety of nutrients. It's not all about weight, you need to be healthy!
That's funny and sad. I've been hearing about this alleged "cookie diet". I think it was mentioned in US magazine. They reported Kelly Clarkson tried them.
Speaking of cookies, I made some "real" ones last night and they were delish!
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