When it Comes to Dieting, I Disagree With Everyone. :)&-=
When it comes to dieting, I really do disagree with everyone. Having lost 112 pounds from my top weight, and no longer experiencing any desire whatsoever to stress eat even when I've had stress stacked on stress on top of stress I'd say that makes my view worth considering no matter how different it is from every other diet on the planet.
I've been browsing the many diets reviewed at the Daily Plate. There are too many for me to even get a decent sampling of, but so far every one of them has built in splurge days. Clearly everyone I talk to thinks that's reasonable and anything else is unreasonable.
I'd like to debate that point with you, right here, right now. Using the analogy of being abused by a significant other and being abused in our relationships with food.... after we break up with physical abuse, do we 'splurge' and go out with an abuser again because we love abusers loving on us so much we can't ever completely break up with that abusive shit? Well yeah, actually there are women who are like that.
And remember, there are many of us who have put a foot down firmly and meant it when we said, "I'll never keep loving anyone who abuses me. Not ever again. They abuse me once and they're OUT." I quit being abused absolutely cold turkey, in an instant, while being kicked in my pretty face. I was 18. Since then one man has hit me. He hit me once. I never spoke another word to him. Not one. He called at least 20 times. I didn't yell, scream, cuss, explain, or even hang up the phone hard. I just kept hanging up. If I saw him coming down the street I'd turn and go the other way. I respect myself too much to love an abuser. And I am a mother of two daughters. I couldn't possibly set the example of allowing that kind of abuse. What kind of mother wants to teach her kids it's okay for them to let others abuse them? Not me.
Now we get to the analogy part... why splurge? Why do we call eating things we already know are unhealthy for us - splurging? I am not comfortable putting food in my body that doesn't sincerely love and nourish me. The greatest dinner of my life was at the Arena Restaurant, the other night where I ordered a cold salad plate, for the best salad I ever tasted, (I brought my salad and dressing from home,) and a patty of their leanest ground beef. I drank a rum/almond silk slushy a 153 calorie rum drink that is delicious (I brought the almond silk and 90 of the calories came from the rum)..... and it was all heavenly food. (Dr. Oz says one drink a day is good for us). My lean friend, Danielle, a barrel racer was there having supper and insisted on picking up the tab for such an important moment in my life. She was eating a fried chicken tenders salad, with a high salt content in both the salad dressing and the coating on the chicken. That's okay for her, she can eat anything. She is genetically immune to excess salt. It never increases her appetite and she has no children to influence.
Enjoying that restaurant meal more than I had ever enjoyed any restaurant meal, I realized, it is like when you dump abusive jerks, you actually find far truer love, and you enjoy it far more. I know the real meaning of comfort food. It satisfies hunger, it feeds my body's true needs, it doesn't make me crave excess food, it tastes delicious.... good grief people, what on earth could be more comforting than what truly nutritious foods bring to the table??
The same way I didn't stop having love in my life just because I refused to love abusers, I haven't stopped loving food... it's just that once I decided to quit the hardest job in the world (being the fat girl) the food I love is only, absolutely only truly healthy food, and I only love it in healthy amounts.
It's like when Mitch read in my cards once, "Lollie, this new guy coming into your life will be so good to you you'll want to throw rocks at the past one..." the past one that had been my abuse wake up call and whom I had thought was the greatest love of my life.... Hells bells I didn't even know what love looked like or felt like until Tim Dickson entered my life. Mitch's cards couldn't have been more correct.
So I'm suggesting the most outrageous weight loss program we've ever heard of, break up with foods that abuse our bodies. I don't mean break up part time, or break up and go back to cheat, I mean hard core BREAK-UP with abusive foods. I know it sounds crazy, but when we do it this way, our brains shift gears and fall madly in love with truly healthy food. And whether it sounds crazy or not, that's exactly what happened to me.
Here's another analogy, say you've got a high octane sports car.... have you EVER said "Hey! I know, let's splurge this weekend! We can use the lowest octane fuel and add sludge to the oil, whaddaya say?" Well, duh. No. How many years do we typically keep a car? How many years do we expect to keep our bodies? Oh yeah, that's right our entire lives. So, what are ya saying? You love and protect and take care of your CAR better than your own body? Think about it. It's time to get mad. Right now. If I were you, reading this I would have to get mad at someone, either Lollie for suggesting something so, so very radical, or the food manufacturers who intentionally add excess salt, fats and sugars to every manufactured food and hire the best brain programmers in the world to write the best brain programming in the world and then tell us we're just watching commercials.
Pick your poison. Either I'm the bad guy, or they're the bad guys.
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