Dieting Delilah - I help diet

The urban legend is that the soldiers of the Soviet Union would eat this to stay lean and fit, but that’s highly unlikely.

I’m a medical resident. I work long shifts, skip meals, then eat when I can as fast as I can. I used to carry chocolate bars in my pocket because they were filling and the sugar rush would wake me up. Yeah, I know, doctors don’t lead very healthy lives.

But I was getting really big and feeling really heavy and sluggish. I needed to lose weight, and not by starving my already exhausted body. The easiest solution was finding low-fat convenience food. Energy bars, muesli with milk, carrot sticks. It’s easier than most people think, a lot of this is in the supermarkets already.

“My husband and I love good eats. We enjoyed trying out new restaurants. We putter in the kitchen together. When something great happens, we celebrate by making elaborate dinners.
He wasn’t very happy about switching to what he calls my “cow food”—
salads, cereals.

And I didn’t feel like making two separate meals, to keep him happy while sticking to my diet. Despite everything I’d give up because it was simpler to just cook something he enjoyed.

"Steve and I had a really rocky relationship. We'd fight a lot, and sometimes he'd threaten to pack up and leave. I guess I felt I had to work harder to keep him. I'd freak out when I'd gain weight, go on a diet, ask him if he thought I was fat. Or sometimes I'd get so depressed about something he said and eat like a cow, then wake up guilty and scared that he'd hate me, and starve myself again.

Reason 5 - and very probably: your diet was a scam.

 

Sorry, but not all diets live up to their hype.

Reason 4: Dieting for the wrong reasons.