Just Do It!

What a great motto....if it were only that easy. Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Herbal Magic, I thought I had heard and knew about all of them until I found the Weigh Down Diet....frankly scary. They claim obesity is a sin and to eat other than when you have hunger pangs is to commit a sin.....Yikes!

What ever happened to actually enjoying food for the love of food? Not talking glutony, just enjoying the pleasure of a nice sit-down home made meal in the company of friends or family...would that also be considered a sin?

I'm not obese, I'm overweight, but with size ZERO models on the cover of every possible imaginable magazine on every newstand, overweight is the new obese. Argh.

A day at a time. Doesn't work. Or maybe it does, I just maybe haven't had too many days-at-a-time. My day-at-a-time lasts a day and when something from the "forbidden" group is eaten, that's it, you might as well just call your day-at-a-time bye bye. By now, I am probably the biggest theory expert on diets, proven, tested and failed. My point...diets don't work. Once you've forbidden yourself from any food group, that's it, your bound for failure. Might as well just start off with a cheesecake binge.

Portion control, key to living a healthy, happy balanced life, enjoying all the foods and losing weight. But how do you portion control when you are having cheescake? Two tablespoons just won't do it. How do you get to the point where you know you have to stop and you can actually push your plate away so that you don't have to beat yourself after?

Just Do It! Eat half the plate and push the rest aside....Toss it immediately or feed it to you dog or put it in a doggy bag....just don't eat the whole thing...I think I'll try that....Just Do It!