Has anybody else gone down that dark path known as "The Spring Diet?" Does anyone else feel my pain? Today I had a breakfast of 2 boiled eggs & 1/2 cup of raw oats (tricky to eat in the car, but I managed!), lunch of baked pork & green beans, 10 pecan halves, one cheese stick & for my grand finale, a dinner of baked pork with one slice of whole grain bread & some snap peas.....Can anybody guess what diet I've started? THIS IS DAY # 1....I'm sure they'll be starting a pool at the office soon as to how many days I'll make it before I give up...Oh, BTW, I'm drinking......WATER. Must I change my screen name to WATERDoc now? Woe is me, what a world, what a world......

.......I'm melting...... but not because of any diet I'm on! I don't know what diet you're on Doc, but diets never work! Exercise always works, with plenty of water and NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO soda!!!


ROSE

My dear Rose....as always you speak the truth in love--LOL! I'm drinking water till I'm up to my eyeballs & have been decaffeinated since Sunday....AND have been going to the gym at 6 AM!!! Once I get things reasonably under control again, my goal is to ONLY exrcise & FORGET the diet! (although this one actually is a very healthy diet overall & one I should just stay on on general principles....fruits & veggies & all that...)
Today's update: I just finished baked fish & ASPARAGUS. (Those who know me well are gasping in shock by now!) And now, since I am DECAFFEINATED AND BORING, I will be going to bed early so I can get up at that ridiculously early hour to get to the gym!

Doc, I applaud you and cheer you from the sidelines. I don't know what it is going to take for me but I don't think I'll ever get to a healthy weight. Perhaps I should be praying and fasting...the fasting could work in two ways, I suppose!

Keep us updated so that I might 'catch' something from you (and my it not be the fat that you lose!)

Doc: I just talked to my daugther on the phone and she's been doing her best to diet. Right after some success she started having terrible pain and they have been doing tests. The results of the tests limit her food further so I made a suggestion she might just follow, I will share it with you. Go to your favorite market and pick out the most attractive boxes of cereal. Open all the boxes you have chosen. Get a large green trash bag... not clear 'cause it will make you cry every time you look at it. Throw out all the UN-OPENED bags of cereal and eat the boxes. Oh, yeah, and keep on drinking the water, you will need it. Exercise is also good. Lug the garbage out and then bring it back in three times a day. You will be surprised how heavy all that cereal is when you are carrying the bags up several flights of stairs. I sure hope you don't live in a high rise like I do.... 18 flights!!! Whew!

Katie42

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DewDoc,

Not sure what diet plan you're on, but as long as you're eating healthy and drinking your water intake without depriving yourself too much, I say go for it!

I have been on Weight Watchers and I am LOVING IT!!! I love having choices! I choose when I'm "bad" and when I'm picture perfect with healthy intakes in the day.

Anyway good luck and remember to think of this phrase in your weak moments: "This to shall pass." It does too, those cravings will pass.

God Bless
~Byrd

Hi Doc,

I don't know what diet you're on either but if you don't get the results you want, I would suggest Weight Watchers. My husband & I went together and he lost 56 pounds & I lost 30 pounds. As Byrd said, you have choices and that makes it easier. Good luck on whatever way you do it. Don't get down on yourself if you cheat. Just start again the next day. One day at a time, with God's help, you can do anything!
Gnome

Katie42 - liked the diet suggestions though my partner was not keen... plenty of fibre in that diet.
We have given up crisps for lent - not that I eat loads, but am helping partner on that one. Her trouble is not what she eats, more quantity, especially when it comes to chocolate. I have a big bar of the stuff, I can eat it a few squares at a time, over a week or so. My partner has a big bar... she can eat half or more in one go! She says it's like a shark after blood - once you get a taste of it you want more.
We have resorted to her making me hide the chocolate and dishing out a few squares at a time on request.... oh, and playing Badminton seems to help a bit too! And eating vast amounts of fruit salad.............

I'm beginning to look like a banana......

Wanderer--I feel your partner's pain when it comes to chocolate, as do many on these boards! The shark after blood analogy is actually quite appropriate! Moondragon & Gnome, I've done Weight Watchers & agree it's a great program & probably the one I'm most likely to stay on longest. In fact, I devised my own version of the "Points" system before it ever came out as "the Points system!" Katie, the cereal boxes for fiber actually sound like what this diet is like....Not really, I guess, but I am NOT a veggie person. So I don't get cravings because my only snack choices right now are things I prefer to never eat again in my natural life--LOL! Bear with me, though. In just 36 hours, I'll be able to add one glass of wine a day & THREE bite-sized dark chocolate bars a WEEK--WHoo hoo!!!! I'll be beside myself!

More diet woes......I was whinning to my wife that I had gain a little weight. She suggested that the problem just might be our ancient scale. Now in the back of my mind I was thinking probably not but hey you never know, right? So we bought a new scale and now I gain 10 lbs. just by stepping on the stupid thing. So I gained a new scale, 10 lbs. but then almost lost 125lbs, AKA the wife.....lol....

Maybe you should take the scale back & tell them it's broken, Rio.