A Clarification

[bloodyrosemccoy]

For gods' sakes, people, I'm not cutting out carbs completely forever and always until death do I part. That would be dumb. The damn thing is a plan to balance my diet. Balance it! I'm just trying to get away from The College Ramen and Pop Tarts Diet I've been on.

I repeat for people online and off who respond to my cheerful commentary on an experiment with solemn disapproval: I am not suddenly cutting carbs completely; the idea was to reduce the carbs, and gradually rearrange their place in my eating habits. I'm just trying to fix my food intake, because right now it is not healthy, and reduce the carbs and fix which kind I do take and add some other good nutrition.  BALANCE, I SAY!  I AM EXPERIMENTING WITH HEALTHY FOOD!  WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP TELLING ME TO QUIT?!

*GASP*

*SPUTTER*

*turns off rampant caps lock*

*ahem*

It may be possible this experimentation is giving me mood swings.  I'll work on that.

Comments

[luinmir.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I understood this to be so, but I can see how people may have gotten the wrong impression, especially if they are only sporadic readers of their friend's page.

Sounds like you're having this problem "irl", as well, though. I think that where diet is concerned a lot of people are used to otherwise perfectly rational people suddenly deciding they're going to eat nothing but kale and drink their own urine or something. I think a lot of people kind of assume that this means that they are the only voice of reason. I know that I've had my share of friends on stupid and crazy diets, and it's always frustrating. So I can see how people are ready to assume that you've gone off the deep end, too.

Still, it's got to be annoying when you are genuinely just trying to get more nutrition from your meals.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been trying like hell in posts and conversations to get across that I make a distinction between "I'm on that diet where you only eat almonds in flax seed oil," and "I'm trying to eat more vegetables and less birthday cake as a main course meal," and that the idea is to--well, I gave it to you in the last comment. But I wrote that post mostly for amusement's sake, because I thought it was funny what my brain was doing.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

*giggles helplessly*

Still, I'm sorry you're being dorked at. I happen to distrust the South Beach Diet, but I'm in the "I think you'll end up driving yourself nuts with the fiddly to no lasting effect" camp, rather than the "OMG you've gone off the deep end intervention STAT" camp, so.

I could easily be wrong, after all, I distrust a great many things that are widely accepted as perfectly sane.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, my approach to any dieting fad is that they're more like guidelines, anyway. ;)

[shriekingsnape.livejournal.com]

my bad. shouldn't have made the assumption. It was an instant reflex that i developed from wanting to smack the people I know because a bunch of them got caught on the atkins thing. the probably cut meat out completely when that was the craze, as will. I don't know much about south diet, but I'm guessing its somewhat similar to some of the other eating habit changing life things (observe how my sentence structure is royally fucked. Thats what I get for trying to learn Dutch and brush up an my Spanish at the same time.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Oh, not just you. There was a long line of people, and I finally snapped after an IM conversation.

I told luinmir up there that it's frustrating for me to keep having to reiterate that I make a differentiation between "I'm on that new diet where all you eat is almonds in flax seed oil for half a year" and "I'm trying to eat more vegetables and less birthday cake for dinner." I've researched this one a bit--it's supposed to be pretty good, especially for people with PCOS--and the plan is to use it more as a template than as a hard and fast rule. ("They're more like guidelines, anyway.") But I know enough people who have started dumb and counterproductive diet fads that I can see how you'd get the wrong impression. It wasn't you; it was the deluge of comments from every corner of my world yesterday that got obnoxious.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Don't be shy, tell us how you really feel!

I told someone I was trying to lose forty pounds in a year and got this massive lecture about starving oneself and fad diets and blah blah blah. Um, yeah. I'm cutting portion sizes, trying to eat less junk food and trying to get more exercise.

Is this society fucked up about eating, or what?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* I figure I'm entitled to one really bitchy post every four months or so.

Yeah, the trouble is that people hear "diet" as "crazy fad counterproductive diet." Of ourse, if they discover you've lost it and started one, it is their solemn duty to save you from yourself. There's this sense that every attempt to chage your diet is a response to a late-night TV commercial. No wonder people are scared to try to change their BAD habits--the social pressure against it is stunning.

[placetohide.livejournal.com]

I read in a study that something like 95% of people who go on a diet gain all the weight back when they quit, which is a bummer. Nothing wrong with trying to find better food balance, though, I think more general things like that are really helpful.

[raks-star-maiya.livejournal.com]

This post seriously made my brain hurt. (And it's not your fault).

Refined carbs and sugars make your blood sugar spike and cause inflammation in the body on a cellular level. Need proof? Cut 'em out for a couple of days and watch your skin calm down and clear up.

Not to mention, refined carbs are nutritionally devoid. You get more bang for your buck eating whole grains, veggies, legumes and lean proteins, and those foods are more satisfying. This is not to say that you should be an Atkins zealot or replace all sugars with potentially toxic alternatives like Splenda and Equal. That's not nutritionally sound, either. But I believe that nearly everything you put in your body should have some nutritional purpose. (Except when it comes to the occasional cocktail, for me).

Maybe my moderate consumption of starchy foods has dumfounded me too, but I don't understand why some people love to backlash against those who eat healthy. I get this, too. I love the people who tell me that I'm too thin and need to go eat a hamburger. 1. I'm 4'11" and was not genetically built for curviness or bulk. 2. I don't have a death wish, and 3. Did I mention that I'm a vegetarian?

Anyway. Just wanted to say that I feel ya on this one. And keep enjoying healthy foods, and all the great things they do for your mind and body. I've actually inspired a lot of the naysayers in my life to eat better--or at least replace their Cheetos with the organic equivalent. hahahahaha

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not even going that far. I'm just trying to clean up my snacking. And I have trouble with refined carbs because of PCOS.

So thanks. It can get frustrating ...