D.I.E.T.

Having been so obsessed with "dieting" for several years of my life, I decided to look a little deeper into the word that has encompassed my life for so long. "It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change" most people now say. Yada, yada, yada ... I've attempted to change my lifestyle so many times I'm surprised Robin Leach isn't knocking on my front door (guess it's because I'm too poor from buying diet food). A quick look in Wikipedia gives the following definition: "Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight". Key word there is CONTROLLED. So I look at my life ... I control the backbone of a very successful carpentry business; I control an entire household (but don't tell my hubby that); I control my own Avon business; why can't I "control" my weight? So I decided to "acronym" (is that a proper use of the word?!) the word DIET to see if I could come up with a logical answer. Google wasn't much help, when I typed in D.I.E.T. it came up with tons of ways to "diet", most of which I've already tried ... I think my name actually came up there too. So ... I took it upon myself to try to come up with it on my own.

D.I.E.T. : Dying Inside, Eating Terrible ... nah, way too Emo
D.I.E.T. : Denial of Ingesting Everything Tasty ... ok, other than adding the "of"
I even tried it backwards T.E.I.D. ... obviously doesn't work like "stressed" spelled backwards (desserts)
D.I.E.T. : Don't Ingest Extra Treats ... THERE IT IS!!! Like it!

So there's my answer ... that's where the control lies.

Thanks for reading!
Janet xo