Stop wasting your time on those cockamamie diets like the cabbage soup diet that doesn’t do anything but give you gas or the high protein diet that stresses your kidneys.Try this on for size. I am opening my column with Unpopular Statement #1—which is: I am tired of being called a Skinny Bitch. It’s sooo not true—well, at least, the first part isn’t. I am not skinny. I’m 5ft. 6 in. and have weighed 118 pounds since high school. Want to know my secret? Okay, you asked for it. Here’s Unpopular Statement #2. I never diet. Really.
You see, dieting is about denying yourself the things you want. I deny myself nothing: I choose to be healthy, and this takes only two things. 1. Eating healthy and 2. Regular exercise—that’s it. There, I said it—so shoot me.
Listen to me, my Northern Virginia girlfriends and everyone else on the planet. Stop wasting your time on those cockamamie diets like the cabbage soup diet that doesn’t do anything but give you gas or the high protein diet that stresses your kidneys. They don’t work. Instead, start consciously making choices to eat natural, healthy foods.
Aren’t you sick of listening to women who tell you they “eat nothing” but still gain weight? Well, I hate to rain on their Self-Pity Parade, but that’s a scientific impossibility. M&M’s might weigh nothing but they contain hundreds of calories! No matter how one might try to rationalize it, Snickers bars, Big Macs and DQ Blizzards are NOT healthy foods. You have to get real and eat natural food; you know, food that has more nutritive value than the packaging it comes in.












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In my quest to find inspiring moms who have made healthy changes in their lives for the next issue, I could not help but become aware that while I was searching for moms who would inspire you all, I was lacking inspiration myself.
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