Chronicles of a Late Bloomer

Today, I got sort of excited about this book, The Vice-busting Diet, based on the reviews over at Amazon. I was excited, that is, until I browsed through the first few pages and found the following quote:

The top three major diet vices that contribute most to obesity are sugary and/or soft drinks, fast food, and television. (page 8)

Well, shoot. I don’t drink soda, and haven’t for nearly 10 years.¹ I don’t watch television, and haven’t for over 3 years.² Since attempting to change the way I eat, I haven’t really consumed fast food, either. I had already identified it as my biggest food weakness and taken drastic steps to eliminate fast food from my eating plan.

So.

I guess all this proves is that we each have to write our own life-altering bestseller based on what works for us as individuals. I’m getting to the point where I’m pretty self aware. I’m better at pinpointing my own unique problems and developing strategies for overcoming them. In the end, the only life-altering program I can write is one for my very own self. Everything else is just platitude for the masses.

This week, my top 3 diet vices are:

1. Fancy restaurants.
2. PMS cravings.
3. Buying into the myth of easy answers and paperback cures.

1. I gave it up for Lent as a missionary and never went back. [↩]
2. Minus the incident a few weeks ago when my boyfriend (the movie junkie) and I hooked up the rabbit ears to watch the Academy Awards and snark about gowns and tuxes. [↩]