Dieting is Becoming Less Popular

Perhaps the word 'diet' is going out of favor? I myself prefer to say that I'm on a 'food plan' because it doesn't make me feel deprived of enough food or of foods I like. But 'food plan' just means I'm balancing my nutrient needs and working towards a goal.

Great! Maybe this will work better! After all, dieting in the 1990's didn't work so well. Of course we all know that it's the lifestyle diet that you are eating that works over time. These short term 'diets' are just the agony of defeat!

I just wish that thinness wasn't so prized...not that we should all go and gain 100 pounds. Simply wish it was still considerd goddessent to be softenned just like in those paintings from the Renaissance when collar bones were rare and ribs showing in women was unheard of. I wish i could be considered "thin" at 5'5 120, an easy weight for me, but no, "i shall strive to walk and leave no print in my sted"-

I think this is misleading.... everyone's on a diet!
And the newest plan for 2007 is also the easiest.
It's called The Logic Diet.
Check it out at:
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the logic diet ... all this CRAP they advise you to eat!

Well, being American, middle-class, white and female i too feel the "need" to be a size 2, but i'm not willing to starve to achieve it anymore. "Mia-para-me", please talk to someone. I used to be a friend of Ana, then i got fat (212 pounds, 5'3", size 18), then i got healthy (135 pounds, size 6). I started on the South Beach Diet and ended up modifying it as the weight came off. Now, I eat more healthfully on a regular basis but I don't begrudge myself a cookie or a couple of truffles now and then.

I'm on the 'illogical' diet, being the contrarian. And it works!!

I'm on the Canada Food Guide Diet. I eat what they recommend for a women (although a little lest bread and cereal more veggies and fruits) and get active 5 times a week through running, biking, swimming, tobogganing, wrestling, gardenning, shovelling snow, house cleaning. I'm losing some pounds but lots of inches. I've lost 30 inches since last April. *good job Genn, (patting my own back)*.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/fg_rainbow-arc_en_ciel_ga_e.html (food guide)

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/guide/ath-tah_e.html#tip2 (fit guide)

It works well and I don't feel deprived because I have a yogourt for dessert twice a day.

You can look whatever you way you want to look. It is your decision. Don't blame society for pushing a certain look on you.

If you, Mia, felt that at 120lb at 5'5" you were fine (or let me be really revolutionary: 140lb at 5'5"), you'd find out there are lots out there who also think you are fine. Yes, there would be a few (most of them teen girls) who think that any more than 90lb at 5'5" is fat. But who cares about their opinio, as long as you feel good?

I never told anyone I was on a diet when I decided to change my lifestyle. The reason was because I associated diets with being temporary torture that you endure for a couple months to lose some weight. Then you go "off the diet" and can eat whatever you want again. I learned the yoyo diet cycle from my mom, who is an expert at it by now. She fully expected me to not stay "on my diet" for as long as I have...even though it's just healthy eating, not really a "diet". There are certain foods I don't include in my "diet" only because I don't like how they make me feel, not because some dumb book says they're "off limits". Nothing should be "off limits" and I think a lot more people are realizing that and creating their own diets based on their personal food likes and dislikes. I think more people are getting educated about nutrition too, so they are better able to form their own food plans. Basically, you should do whatever works for you and not worry about if it's the "perfect" eating plan or not. If it works for your lifestyle, then it's perfect.

Well said, Spectra!

I think the term 'going on a diet' is the thing we have to change. I have used 'change your diet' for many years now and let me tell you it works! I am not a psycho-therapist or anything of the like but there is definitely a change in the mindset when you use different sets of words for the same meanings.