Hey! Remember me? I'm that girl with the diet blog! Obviously, I'm feeling better. Here's what's up:
After I came home from the hospital, I was on my white bread diet for about 10 days before I started eating regularly. A week after that, The New American Diet began.
I hated it. There were a few reasons:
1. Aside from a shockingly delicious hummus recipe (if anyone wants it, let me know), the other recipes in the book are ridiculous. It's as if they wrote down a bunch of random ingredients in unmeasured quantities and sent them off to be published. The contents of one breakfast burrito were not even close to fitting in the specified 8" whole wheat tortilla.
2. It was also rediculously expensive. At forty-ish dollars a day, I could have my meals delivered to me by singing delivery men on golden bicycles.
3. It was WAY too vague. I need a few more guidelines than a bunch of recipes that don't neccessarily assemble well. I did like that there was a specific exercise program in the book, but as far as the eating was concerned, it feels like a free for all within a limiting organic box.
For a second, I forgot about the frozen bananas. Those were also excellent, but a woman cannot exist on hummus and frozen bananas alone.
Who is this diet good for, then? I would say that people who need to loose a lot of weight and want to do it somewhat organically would benefit. And make sure that you have a lot of money.
So! My next diet venture is actually not coming from a book. I'm going to be using the Lose It! program.
Lose It! is a calorie counting website/iPhone app. You input your stats, and it tells you how many calories you should be eating in a day to achieve your weight loss goals. Right now, I'm on roughly 1600 calories a day. This one is fun, because it's free! If anyone wants to join me, you can become my friend on Lose It! by inputting my email address: buckywaters@gmail.com.
Come join me, friends! You have nothing to lose but some ugly flabby neck jiggle!
