Extreme Diets

I have to admit, there's been the moments where I wish that I had the self-control to go on a stricter, more drastic diet.  At the same time, I don't want to endorse anything like anorexia or starving yourself.  There has to be a way to lose the weight without going to unnatural measures of forsaking food.  Besides, food is too damn tasty.



Mmm, all the oxygen I can eat.

    If anyone happens to read this blog, I want there to be a story unfolding here of a girl making better eating choices and losing the weight in a healthy way.  But there's still the temptation of having a super low calorie diet that will take off pounds like a dropping stone, or finding a diet pill that works and is supremely strong.

I've always heard the warnings against crash diets, and losing weight too quickly.  The trouble for me is that my weight gain has been so extreme - isn't that just as dangerous?

The main reason why I know I should take the longer path is because it will help me build healthy habits.  If I lost the 100 lbs overnight, there wouldn't be a switch in my head to suddenly flip and make me into a exercising machine who eats like a rabbit.  I'd end up gaining the weight right back, because I haven't unlearned these bad habits.

As daunting as it is to realize that it will take me about a year to make my goal, the rewards will be more than just the immediate pleasure of being a smaller size.  It will take me a year to build up healthy habits, like training myself to get rid of fatty foods I don't need, finding healthier choices and making them my new favorite foods, building an exercise routine, figuring out how to eat 3 meals a day without overloading on calories, figuring out how to keep an even calorie goal when I do reach my target weight, and learning how to treat myself without breaking my diet.

So, as tempting as an extreme diet is, I recognize that cutting corners isn't the way to lose weight for good.  Learning how to cut calories and build healthy habits is.