The Diet Dance

I started another new diet today...I won't tell you what it is until I see if it works. But let's just say it is rather unconventional but in an odd sort of way it makes sense to me. And I didn't have to buy hardly anything to get started! Have I piqued your interest yet?

Diets can be tricky. Sometimes they require adding items to your shopping list that are expensive, oversized (like my HUGE container of Metamucil), or just plain wierd. After a few months all that extra stuff goes into the trash or gets stuffed to the back of my pantry until I throw them out a few years later. Diets get trickier when you have to shell out money to join a gym, because everyone knows working-out is essential to a good diet. Then there are the chemicals you need to take as you diet; garlic pills, fish oil pills, flax seed oil, coconut oil. I could go on, but you get the picture.

Another thing about diets is that they always begin with a New York Times bestseller! So one can't simply begin dieting, there is much reading, research and preparing to do in the initial stages. Next comes the grocery scouring...you know...slowing walking through the grocery store, eyes peeled for foods that look yummy, delicious, or chocolatey but also pass the "read the label" test. Once the groceries are all unloaded at home, you are starving because you have only been allowed to gaze on all your favorite fat filled friends when you realize you have nothing to eat because you have to prepare and cook it first!

Sometimes people might end up watching reality TV programs based on weight loss and dieting. That's when you know you have hit a "dieting low." Also, it may seem like a logical step to begin looking for support from fellow dieters on-line, I have heard there are millions of blogs on the subject :) Luckily, I haven't been that desperate, yet. (Or have I?)

There are many charming and not so charming names for diets, too. South Beach, Beverly Hills Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, even some that have been around for years like the Scarsdale Diet or the infamous Cabbage Soup Diet, ugh!
And then there is the instant weight loss program, don't even get me started on liposuction and lipodissolve. That is Cheat Dieting for the wealthy!

But this diet is different. Based on scientific principles of digestion, it is so simple and so cheap that one can simply shop for food in a normal sort of way so long as one attends to the matters of digestion while one eats. No...I'm not going to be bulimic or use laxatives...but this is just as simple.

Ah, but I have already said too much, and as I really have no clue whether it works or not, I will remain optimistic. But if it does work, and I drop all this unsightly weight around my middle, I shall be the first to pass along the diet.

For now, it shall be known only as: Rhonda's Mystery Diet. Talk to you in ten pounds!