I haven't posted lately, actually I haven't done much of anything lately. Just sitting in my recliner thinking about how I 'ought' to get up and do this or that. That and spending an incredible amount of time on facebook and other nonsensical websites. Basically, I've been depressed over nothing. I think it is a side effect of my surgery (good excuse, huh) and from not working. Understandable, yes; desirable, no.
Anyway, whilst perusing the 'net, I came across a couple of interesting items I decided I'd share with you.
Cracked.com shares 5 Things You Do Every Day That Are Actually Addictions
Here is something I gleaned from their list:
Salty foods may in fact act as an antidepressant, the brain's way of rewarding us for staving off extinction. And just as with any addiction, the brain doesn't know when to turn it off -- the pleasure centers of your brain get accustomed to the high, demanding more and more. And, just to make things even worse, salt may actually contribute to changing our brain chemistry, so that instead of feeling full after eating, we just keep craving more. Combining it with fat and other elements in junk food is actually thought to be about as addictive as heroin.
They also talked about chewing ice as an addiction which lead me to The Cold Water Diet
and on to the The Chocolate Diet. The Cold Water Diet simply tells us what we already know; drinking water helps you to lose weight. The Chocolate Diet, alas, is not about eating lots of chocolate and losing weight, which in my opinion would be the ultimate diet, it is about drinking a cup of xocoatl daily. Xocoatl, for the purposed of this diet, a bitter drink made from unsweetened cocoa and water.
Then there is the Sleeping Beauty Diet, based on the principle that when you are sleeping, you aren't eating.
The Five Bite Diet lets you eat whatever you want, as long as you only take 5 bites. Give me a BIG SPOON, baby!
The HEGAN is a vegan diet for men only. It's supposed to show the 'manly side' of the vegan diet. So, all vegans aren't homosexual wimps?
And if that is't enough for you, there are the REALLY WEIRD diets perfect for those with Pica**: Cotton Ball Diet, Breatharianism (you eat light, seriously), the Soap diet (not a typo), and the Tapeworm Diet (gross). Or how about the Air Diet? This is where you 'pretend' to eat. Didn't I read about that in a Raggedy Ann and Andy book once? Andy was hungry and Ann gave him an 'air sandwich'. My daughter and I would have air sandwiches and air milk when she was hungry for 'snacks'. (she was 3!)
There are the ever popular single food diets: Egg Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet. But they get boring quickly, so you might want to add an ingredient; The Beer and Ice Cream Diet, the Wine and Cheese Diet, Pickle and Ice Cream Diet (no, wait, that's a pregnancy craving, scratch that one.)
A friend of mine once told me that his doctor put him on the 'If It Tastes Good Spit It Out Diet.' Which makes me think of Fletcherizing. That is chewing your food from 32 to 100 (depends on what web page you read) times and then spitting it out. Plan on eating alone if you decide on this one.
Hats off to self-proclaimed “fat boy” Dan Radice. He’s supposedly trying every fad diet out there “to view the effectiveness of each.” Hmm, why don’t you just read up on them like the rest of us, Dan? He has tried the cabbage soup diet, the chocolate diet, the Atkins diet and is still going strong. He has lost 42 pounds to
date. We hope his doctor is on standby.
Lately I've been on that old standby, the See Food Diet. If I see food, I eat it. Which explains a lot.
Well, I feel much better after eating that bag of potato chips. I think its time for lunch. ;)
* my apologies to vegans, homosexuals and wimps everywhere **Pica is a disorder where a person craves things which are not food.
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