The Problem With Diets and Diet Books

Fat Chance Blog

So it is a few days before the new year. I just bought a unlock key for MarseEdit so I can start blogging from my Mac again. Right now I’ve got 2 blogs but may have a few more. That’s not here nor there.

As can be seen from this not very unique title, Fat Chance is a blog about me, a fat fat fat lady. And my adventures over the next year or so as I try to just be a fat lady and sooner or later a formerly fat lady.

Right now I’m trying to figure out what diet to follow. I’ve looked at a bunch.

Flat Belly Diet
South Beech diet
This diet where you eat every 4 hours diet
And there are some I’ve downloaded from the library for the blind but haven’t listened to yet, like this one from that TV show “The Biggest Looser”…

I love reading. But I don’t like reading all these diet books. The problems I have with them is they all say they are the best. Of corse they are going to say this, I’m not as dumb as I look, I know and you know they are all going to say this because they want you to buy, and me to listen to them and think they’re the best. They even have doctors who, if they aren’t the inventors of the diets, have backed them up with research. And there are “true stories” by people who somehow did the diet, whatever it is, before the book was published who have lost heaps and heaps of weight and their lives are so much the better.

Another thing is the food.

It isn’t that I couldn’t eat more healthy. I’d love to. I love fresh fruit and veggies and like baked or grilled fish and chicken. Frankly I think fast food is over priced and gross. The problem is my partner Larry and our two toddlers Skye and Ben don’t want to eat this stuff. Well Skye and Ben would eat whatever you give ‘em but Larry is picky. No Tofu for example. No things that are strange sounding. No veggies. More or less I guess if it isn’t deep fried, frozen or cheep he won’t eat it. Or if it is complex to make or has yogurt in it or is something not American, American-mexican, chinese take away or something like that. “If I don’t like it I am not going to eat it” he says.

Well every thing I’ve read in the diet books has weird or strange things, things that are expensive or require you to read the package… This is another problem Larry doesn’t like to read anything on the packages so if I need say organic unsweetened frozen peaches, or a particular brand or type of something it will not happen or if it does there will be much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth. I wish we had this peeped service where you just shop online for your food and it comes to your house. That way I could say I need x y and or z and it wouldn’t be a giant federal cast trying to get whatever.

I need a diet. “How to lose weight but eat stuff you can find at walmart that isn’t weird or hard to find that Larry won’t complain about getting and or eating. that doesn’t cost an arm and leg…” I should make that diet. Then I could write a book, make loads of money and spend it getting lip suction or something like a personal work out trainer.

Then I could say my diet is the best. Only it really would be because it would be the diet for the rest of us.

That is another thing. Some of these books say you don’t have to work out. Really? That doesn’t sound very doctorly of the diet people to sy this. I can not use a gym and will have to do my working out on my stationary bike, the treadmill, weights Larry says we have laying around and whatever working out I can get from cleaning the house and running around after Skye and Ben all day. And the WII. That is what my folks got us for Christmas. There are fitness ages, my blind friends have used or heard of and this will be another option. I don’t think you can drop weight safely without some sort of workout even if it is something little at first.

I think the diet I’m going to try is going to be the one I heard about on Dr. Laura’s ado show. it is the eat less move more diet. You control what you eat and move more. For now this seems the best. Will still try and eat healthy as I can afford without causing a range war with Lary or the kids. He’s all for me loosing weight and eating better he just doesn’t want to jump in…

I wish he would. It would make the menu planning not so hard. But I do have support from my friends and family, especially my dad who is ending his life in a bad way simply because of his choices in health and not working out and eating crap and being fat. I love my dad but I’m not dying early or dealing with all the health problems he dealing with. Hell no. If I have to die well we all have to die but I’m not going to bring it on myself because I didn’t want to get off my butt or I thought another 2 letter of Coke was a must drink thing. Hell no.