New Year's Resolutions

This year I am making a resolution. My resoltion:

This year, I will NOT go on a diet

Yep, you read that right folks. There will be no low carb, no carb plan for me. No Weight Watchers, no Jenny Craig, no Slim Fast, no watermelon and cabbage diet, no skipping breakfast, no counting points, no counting calories.

This year I will be eating food and enjoying it!

That's my plan, simple as that. I met with a nutritionist and sometimes it takes sitting down with someone to open your eyes. We talked about my habits which have a proven track record over the years. Follow a "diet" to the T, do well, lose weight... everything's great but you miss those "bad" foods. For me, one taste of the "bad" stuff, and all is lost! My nutritionist described something called "deprivation". This is when you try and be SO good that by the time you eat, you are SO STARVING, you eat whatever is in sight. She explained that food is not "bad" and people who eat yummy, delicious foods are not "bad". So if someone is serving tiramisu at a playgroup and I eat some, that's OK. I will take a small piece and enjoy it! I don't need to then go home and eat everything in the house because I couldn't stick to "my plan". It's OK, eating tiramisu is OK! It's all about choices and I will try to make more healthy ones. And when I want something that I love, I will have a small amount. No deprivation, no binging. That's my plan. Slim Fast says "Give us a week, you'll take off the weight"... I'm saying "Give it a year"...