In an perfect world, I would be on a low carb Paleo diet with a gluten-free side of everything. I've tried many restrictive diets and I can truly say I was not better off for it. In hindsight, I can see how these diet fads work and are reliable in a test vacuum. But, these diets that forbid certain foods because they are evil, have not been healing or helpful for my over all health and well-being. Was I lazy? Nope. Did I "cheat" and eat naughty things? Nuh uh. As I tell my amazing doctor, 'I would eat dirt everyday if you told me to', and I mean that!
I love science and all the new and upcoming data they can provide to us that make our lives better. But, I have come to the conclusion that diets and all ways of eating are probably very unique and individualized, like snowflakes. I am so guilty of being a food snob and telling people what they should and should not being eating because the latest diet craze said so. I wasn't personally getting the results those diets promised, but, it would come around...eventually. When I got tired of being stood-up by these promises, I started going into a feeding frenzy and ate what I wanted. Eventually, I calmed down from the disappointment of diets that wasted my time and money. I decided to go back to eating how my body was used to eating, the innate knowledge my body always had and that I obnoxiously ignored for so long.
