According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a diet is, "a: Food and drink regularly provided or conusmed, b: Habitual nourishment, c: The kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason, or d: A regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight."(merriam-webster, 2015)
I asked friends what the word diet meant to them and some replies were the same as what I thought before where the word diet makes you think of starving yourself. When I was in school my thought process on the word diet changed. I stopped thinking of it as a way to lose weight and often feel hungry and started looking at it as a lifestyle change.
The word diet and the word dieting are two different things. Diet talks about the food you eat, fruits and vegetables are part of a balanced diet. Dieting is something you do to lose weight or make a change in you life, I am currently dieting to lose weight. We all eat foods as part of a diet because a diet is what you eat not what you do. Anything you eat is part of your diet. Diet is not a bad word. It does not mean hunger or limiting yourself. Your diet is your eating habits!
There are so many diets out there to try though and it is hard to determine what will work best for you. I know I often have people telling me about the different diets they are on and the changes they have made but I believe that just because a diet works for one person doesn't mean it will work for another.
Here is what I have decided to do and I need your help to do it. I am going to try several lifestyle diets and see what I think works the best and which I personally like. I am going into this unbiased and trying not to discriminate, I will even eat seafood if it calls for it! I will journal what I eat and how I feel. I know it is a short time but I will try each for 2 weeks. I feel this will help me at least get a feel for each diet. I will not be trying any of the fad, lose weight fast diets, I think they are unhealthy and not helpful. So what is a diet you would like to see me try? Leave a comment and let me know what you think I should try. I will be researching each diet and seriously trying as many as I can. Wish me luck and watch for my weekly updates.
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Diet. (n.d.). Retrieved June 7, 2015, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diet
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