A friend of mine and I were discussing diets we’ve tried. Have you ever played this game? The "Oh, I did THAT diet" and the "OH, yes! I remember eating frozen grapes for two weeks!"

No? You don’t play the Diet Story game? Well, consider it your lucky day. Today? We play.

I mentioned before that I was reading the French Women Don’t Get Fat book. In this book she recommends Leak Soup for a one weekend purifier to start the program. My friend and I laughed. "That reminds me of the time…" and off we started playing the Diet Stories game.

So far, to date, I’ve done the following diets:

• South Beach
• French Women
• Body For Life
• Low Glycemic
• High Carb, Low Fat
• Running-all-
  the-time-and-not-eating
• Various SELF magazine diet plans
• and writing down, daily, my consumption. For. Three. Years. (1992-1995)

Wow. I wish I had a dime for every time I said I was hungry. I’d have a lot of dimes. Which in turn would pay for my high chocolate and wine and coffee consumption now-a-days.

My point is this (hi! I have a point!) we do crazy things to "get the body of our dreams’ but is the body of our dreams really worth those crazy things? Or is it worth making the healthy choice to get up, work out, drink water, fill your tummy will good food and get enough sleep?

15 years after my first diet, I’m only now starting to learn. Share what you’ve learned in our forums. And then? Let’s start being healthy. The non-diet way.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 am and is filed under Fit Body & Mind.