[William Wallace]

Originally Posted by heidrun

My food-past wasn’t so great when I think back. I made the classic mistakes of eating the wrong food at the wrong time. First my breakfast:

If I had any breakfast to begin with I ate maybe 1-3 hours from the time when I woke up. If there was some leftover chocolate from the binge the night before, I actually ate that, thinking it was so great that at least I had SOME breakfast. Actually felt kind of proud, since I really thought that stuffing something in my mouth at the morning hours would actually help with my weight problem, because I had read that breakfast was a very important meal. Yes that is true, BUT NOT IF YOU ARE ONLY HAVING CHOCOLATE!!!!! GEEEEEESZZZ could all that excess fat I carried have limited blood flow to my brain!!??? Well breakfast wasn’t that great. I remember that if I had a toast with a lot of butter and some cheese, then I felt I was eating soooooooo healthy, and the cucumber that I put on my toast that one time every year really made me feel like I was in total control over the food, that I was inch(es!!) away from getting thin, I could literally feel the pounds drop off while I happily ate my toast with 0.1 oz of cucumber and 1 oz of butter. Self-deception anybody?? Well at least I thought that was something you could use on toast.

I can't count how many times I had pizza for breakfast in college Needless to say those days are over.

Originally Posted by heidrun

These are the indicative signs that you probably aren’t eating enough vegetables and fruit:
1. You don’t even remember buying them
2. When you open the vegetable drawer bats come flying out
3. The vegetable drawer has its own biosphere that involves invertebrate and 3 types of fungus that haven’t been detected yet in Iceland.
4. The cucumber in the bottom of the vegetable drawer has evolved consciousness.
5. You really can’t tell what the green-red-grey-purple-black thing in the right corner was originally.
6. You are afraid that you will discover Alien life every time you open your fridge (well hell with it, chocolate doesn’t even have to be in a fridge).
7. You come home discovering that your fridge has disappeared, only leaving black sluggish goo on the floor, leading to the front door.

Although I will say I've frequently forgotten about vegetables or gone away for a few weeks and forgot to throw things out before I left. That will do it as well.

Originally Posted by heidrun

And the things that I ate that I thought were so good for me. When I actually thought that if something said “DIET” on the package it meant that I could eat 50 oz of it and still lose weight because they probably put some magic ingredient in it that actually would make me lose weight if I just ate enough of it. Well it was just the same junk-food as the thing it was trying to imitate, maybe with a little less fat or less calories, or less sugar, but still junk. When I actually thought that eating a strawberry ice-cream counted as fruit, because it said strawberry!! When I thought that a little chocolate bar wouldn’t hurt…. Well if you are having 5 in one day IT WILL HURT!!

That's like going to a Wal-mart or Costco (discount store) and spending just as much money because everything is cheaper because you got a better deal! I'm guilty of that too.

Originally Posted by heidrun

It was not until I changed my diet that I was able to face my choices and tear down the self-deception, so it could never hurt my nutritional choices again.

I think you meant to say once you changed your lifestyle We all know diets yield no better than temporary results