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

[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.