It's stupid. While some people swear by it, I just can't. I made it a little more than a week. Over the course of that week, here's what I learned:
1) I really don't eat that much bread or pasta anyway. Adding a menial amount of crushed crackers or bread crumbs to one of my recipes is not preventing me from losing weight. Nor is one bowl of protein and fiber packed steel cut oats in the morning.
2) More veggies are good. I actually love vegetables to begin with - especially when they're fresh - and I have been making more of a conscious effort to make more of them since I started this a week ago. So that's a plus.
3) Shiritaki noodles are disgusting. I didn't actually eat them because the smell was so rancid (the package actually tells you to boil or microwave the noodles first to help weaken the "natural aroma" of these nasty things). They smell like chemicals.
4) I just can't do "diets". Just knowing that I couldn't have something only made me crave it. So yes, I totally failed.
Well, at least I tried it, right?
You did NOT fail because you decided to stop following someone's guidelines that weren't working for you. "Diets" might work for the short term, but really it's our long-term behaviors that matter. I think diets are attractive because they promise results in the near future — but in the long view that really counts.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I completely agree with you :)
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