I have never - no never - been on a diet. I don't believe in diets, if by diet you mean a temporary change of eating habits that will allow you to ditch weight after which you will resume doing whatever the hell you please until you get fat again. That's no way to live. Up until now I've tried to eat like a sensible human being and get exercise, letting the weight take care of itself. I've been low-level suspicious that while I consistently choose the right foods to eat, I'm lousy at portion control. If it's yummy and it's reasonably healthy, and I want seconds, seconds happen.
That is, until today. Today is the first day of the rest of my eating habit change. A day of compromise. A day of thought. And most of all, a day of eating. On Friday, I got in email, a 1500 calorie meal plan of whole foods (i.e. real foods, not preprepared - no weight watchers weirdness or lean cuisine) for 1 day's worth of food broken into 5 meals. I grocery shopped. I fussily measured out low fat salad dressing and chicken breast. I assembled a mountain of fruit. And I ate. (Everything but dinner so far.) The verdict? Eh. It's ok. I will not starve to death. I will get exceedingly bored until we can communicate a little better about the range of things I can put into my meal. 3 oz portions of chicken and endless salads are just so interesting. I can do yogurt and fruit for breakfast for ages without a problem though.
Anyhow, this is a 3-days-on, 1-day-off kind of diet. It'll be really interesting to see if the things I *want* to eat on my day off change as the diet progresses. The goal? I have no weight loss goal. I would like to be back to a really loose fitting 10, a snug size 8. That'd be the size I was when I graduated from college. With muscle, there's no telling what that weight would actually be.
Posted by karen at June 16, 2003 12:00 AM