When I was growing up I was on a very
strict diet:
a) Always eat everything
on your plate.
b) You always have to take
a sizeable portion of anything you’re going to eat. Dad
determined what sizeable meant.
c) You always have to try
something for the first time. In the case of green beans,
it’s always the first time – You’ve never had
them sliced this way before; or You’ve never had them with
almonds before.
d) No cookies within an
hour before a meal. And,
e) No fair using Cool Whip
for your first scoop in an ice cream cone.
I really had it rough on this
Childhood Diet.
It wasn’t until I went to
college that I really started gaining weight. So, much so, that I
had to stop taking seconds. Luckily, the food got so bad at college
that I eventually ate nothing but salads. This was my first
experience with an Avoidance Diet. This type of diet
includes avoidance by counting calories, and just plain
avoidance.
Since it was a church college, I also
learned the art of Spiritual Dieting. This is where
instead of saying you’re dieting, you say you’re
fasting:
• Would you like some
dessert? Oh, no, I’m fasting from dessert today.
• I’m sorry, I
didn’t know you didn’t like broccoli or I would have
left it out. Oh, no, it’s not that. I’m just fasting
from broccoli at the moment.
• We’re out of
mashed potatoes today. That’s ok, I’m fasting from them
anyway.
See how spiritual it sounds?
Then there’s the Fantasy
Diets:
==> See food – If I see
food, I eat it
==> I can have all the dessert I
want, so long as I don’t eat any entreés
==> Chocolate is a vegetable.
It’s made from cocoa beans and beans are a vegetable
==> And the latest title, Eat
the food you want for the body you crave
And there’s the
Switcheroo Diets:
• Instead of eating
lots of carbohydrates, eat lots of protein
• Instead of eating
lots of protein, eat lots of carbohydrates
• I’ll trade
you a piece of cake for two fruits
And for those with MCS, there’s
the Extreme Diets or the Diets from
Hell. The first of these diets is the Elimination Diet. You
go on this diet to find out what foods you’re allergic to
– as if you didn’t already have a pretty good idea.
Basically this is a rice and water diet. Oh, sure, there are a few
other things you can eat, but basically, it’s a rice and
water diet. So, for a week, you only eat the very basics, then you
start adding in things one at a time to see if you react. In the
end, you find out that the only things you aren’t allergic to
are rice and water.
Then there’s the Acid/Alkaline
diet. This is a switcheroo diet where you eat more alkaline foods
and less acidic ones. Guess which foods are acidic. You’re
right – proteins like beef. And guess which foods are
alkaline. You’re right again, your favorites – green
leafy vegetables. Due to the results of the elimination diet, you
were already on the Acid/Alkaline diet and didn’t even know
it!
And the Rotation diet. Never eat the
same food twice in the same week. When the only foods you can eat
are rice and water, following the Rotation diet is extremely
difficult.
And so, over time, you revert back to
the Spiritual Diet:
I thought you were allergic to
peanuts. It’s ok, I fasting from my diet today.
Book 2 My World of Food
Written by Dale Stubbart
Blessed by Terry Stubbart
