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11/30/2003 Archived Entry: "DIET UPDATE"

DIET UPDATE

Well, I've not melted and left a blob of butter where I once stood, but despite the lack of evidence, I think my diet might be working. I guess I won't know for sure until I return in February to the doctor who will take a look at all my blood levels. Our bodies are made of chemicals and he's really into weighing and measuring chemical levels. I'm sure he'll let me know right away which one is in control of my body. I’m hoping all the prognostications in the South Beach book prove right in my case.

Diets have not worked for me. OH, one did...the one where I ate every other day. I can't believe I could do that. That was a long time ago and I lost weight. I was also told to get off it so I did and regained the weight I’d lost, plus some.

I joined some weight-loss club, the name forgotten, in the early 80s where I had to buy their food and eat it. That was horrible. Only some anorexic bulimic person could manage to eat that food. I sure couldn't. Plus…I was constantly starved, irritable and grumpy.

So, faced with the South Beach Diet, as I am, I find it just might be working. I’m encouraged that it and the Atkins Diet have worked for many others and continue to work.

Statistics say that if present trends continue everyone in the US will be FAT by 2040. That’s terrible. When I was in grade school/high school, I only remember a handful of students who were overweight. It was very rare. Look at our kids now. We’re doing something very wrong.

I look forward to “bacon and eggs” for breakfast, but limit myself to true bacon and eggs. This morning I had egg beaters with fresh diced onions, green peppers, tomatoes and lots of Serrano peppers mixed in. That will tide me over quite well, thank you, until I figure out what to eat next with steamed or stir fried veggies. It’s pretty painless and I don’t feel deprived. I was not even tempted to eat mashed potatoes, gravy and dressing during our Thanksgiving dinner. But there isn’t any way I could have survived a diet that said “just push away from the table of wonderful food that Ally cooked for you”. That just doesn’t work for me although I see it working for others all the time.

I know I’m not eating those things I’m not supposed to eat, and I’m not even hungry for them. I thought I’d be curled up in a ball, naked in the corner by now without bread, but I’m doing very well in that department. I don’t think about bread and toast and how good it is. Well, right now I am but I’m not tempted.

The thing about diets is that you hope you’ll see results right away. I suppose some people who carry around cisterns that gather up liquids will see some immediate changes, but I figure it took me 20 years to put this solid weight on and I can’t expect it to take less time to rid myself of it. Well, maybe by the end of next year things will be different. We’ll see. The possibility is close at hand.