The History of Dysfunctional Eating

 

[My photo today is about being able to enjoy food. As I write this, I've got vegetable soup on the stove and carrot soufflé in the oven and a giant salad in the fridge, because I want them, not because I feel I have to have them.]

 

 

I was probably around 17 when I started really dieting for the first time because that was the era of the skin tight designer jean. Nothing could come between you and your Calvins [I never wore Calvin Klein because I could NOT STAND Brooke Shields who was their spokes model at the time]. I wore Gloria Vanderbilt.

The roller coaster ride went something like this over the course of 31 years:

Slim Fast [chemical laden diet shakes]

Low fat everything
Fat blocking diet chews [I don’t recall the brand]
Weight Watchers [I was never a member because I refuse to pay them, but I followed their rules]
Low fat everything
Slim Fast [because maybe I didn’t do it right the first time?]
Curves [if dieting doesn’t work, try obsessive exercise]
Low fat everything
Calorie counting
Slim Fast [gotta keep trying!]
Fat gram counting
Low fat everything
Salad
Live Don’t Diet [low fat everything]
Eating for Life [low fat everything]
Calorie Counting
Insulin resistance diet
HAES
Paleo *
Keto [high fat everything]*
Counting carb grams
Whole 30
Keto

NO DIET

I’ve been looking back at this blog at all the posts about eating and weight loss and it’s sad. I’ve been so indoctrinated, just like everyone else, that I need to adjust my eating to conform to some type of pre-approved, man-made plan that someone else who wanted to make some money decided was the proper way for humans to eat. I guess my next real step is to stop talking about it for good – but I still find I need some type of support, even if it’s just reading my own blog posts. I’d like to find someone else who is in the same boat.

 

*I’m not actually knocking keto or Paleo – they taught me a lot about nutrition and exposed the lies of the diet industry to me. They were probably the first steps in my learning to actually eat for health.