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Fad Diets
Weight loss diets are big business very big business. Last year alone, Americans spent an estimated $46 MILLION on diet products, books, and programs. That's a lot of bucks!
Weight loss diets have been around for a while now. William the Conqueror was so disturbed about the weight he had gained that he locked himself in a room, ate no food, and drank only alcohol. Sounds like fun, but it didn't work. He died when he fell off of a horse, and he was so obese that the clergy had a problem fitting all of him into his stone sarcophagus.
I remember my grandmother going on the banana and pineapple diet. She ate nothing but bananas and pineapples for several weeks. She didn't lose any weight because she ate so many of them, and after she gave up that fad diet, she never ate another banana or pineapple as long as she lived.
Some of the fad diets that come along are weird, some of them are laughable, and some of them sound so reasonable that one would think that maybe the painless road to weight loss had finally been discovered. The old eat less/exercise more tried-and-true road to weight loss isn't much fun. So if a painless weight loss diet has been discovered, the world wants to know what it is.
The Atkins Diet was a biggie. The diet said that the problem of weighing too much wasn't caloric intake or lack of exercise. The problem was carbohydrate intake. We were told to eat all of the meat and meat products that we wanted; just avoid vegetables and all grains and we would lose weight without being hungry. The thing is, the plan did work for a while. It just didn't work forever. Pounds were lost and promptly regained. The body needs a well-balanced diet to function correctly, and it simply will not put up with that kind of abuse for long.
A good diet is one you can stick with even when you have lost all of the weight you want to lose.
BONUS : Famous Quotes about Weight Loss Diets
Marlene Dietrich, the famous actress, once said, "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." I couldn't agree more, so here are some of my favorite quotations about dieting for the purpose of losing weight.
I couldn't find out who wrote the TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) pledge, but it is excellent, and I want to include it here: "I am an intelligent person. I will control my emotions and not let my emotions control me. Every time I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego or dull my senses, I will remember. Even though I overeat in private my excess poundage is there for all the world to see. I will take off pounds sensibly."
Mae West, well known and loved for her wicked humor, said, "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."
The entire cookie industry tells us that "A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand."
Daniel L. Worona is a well-known humorist who specialized in diet humor. He said, "Question: How do you get a couch potato to do sit-ups? Answer: You tape the remote control to his ankles."
Joe E. Lewis was an American comedian and singer. He once said, "I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in 14 days I lost two weeks."
And we all remember that funny fat man, Jackie Gleason. Jackie fought his weight for most of his life. He said, "The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it." Yep!