I forgot all about it--today is International No Diet Day!

Y'all have a great Mother's Day weekend.

I used to buy Woman's World. It always had diets of every sort on the front cover. Now I look and chuckle. Forty pounds fast? You've got to be kidding.

And have you noticed how the diet articles are always announced near the big chocolate cake, or whatever dessert they're featuring on the cover?

On another note, has anyone noticed how the strangest things can make you want to diet?

This morning I was on You Tube for something, and happened across some videos that a morbidly obese (hate that term) woman was making to chronicle her weight loss.

This led to some videos about people that struggle in the four, five, six hundred pounds or more range.

Just seeing things like this scares me, and makes me want to get smaller ASAP, and of course we all know it doesn't work that way.

I had eaten 2 slices of cinnamon toast for breakfast, which would have been fine, but those videos scared me--or ALMOST scared me--back into low carbing. I found myself making sausage links and an egg because that would "start me off" on a low carbing day.

I didn't need that extra food on top of what I had already eaten, and it wasn't anything I wanted to eat anyway, so all I did to myself was eat extra calories I didn't need.

Needless to say, I am NOT going to be low carbing. I'm just picking up the day from where I left off, and will choose something I WANT to eat for lunch.

Enjoy your Saturday, everyone. It's actually not raining here in Vermont for the second day in a row. Maybe it'll help reduce some of the severe flooding around here.

Good for you, Becky, for moving on. And I know all about those crazy things that make you want to diet. Everyone talks about it!!!!!

Last night I didn't stop when satisfied and regretted it. I couldn't get rid of that full/bloated feeling until this morning. It wasn't a binge. I was just for some reason determined to finish what was on my plate.

My problem is grazing. Not always but too often.

I'm a grazer too. I don't really binge--I just graze, a little of this or a little of that, and sometimes there aren't long stretches of time between each thing.

I do best when I keep myself too busy to eat, or at least, too busy to be constantly "foraging" for something.

So, are y'all working on one particular aspect of IE or working through the book or ???

Hi, Susan...Welcome! I can't speak for anyone else, but I like to use this thread for "thinking out loud", and to see what everyone else is up to.

Right now I'm trying to permanently escape the diet mentality, and cut down on my daily weighing habit.

I always do much better when I'm staying away from anything even remotely seeming like a diet or restrictive eating plan, and getting on the scale only once in awhile.

My problem is, either somebody I know, or something I read, always pulls me back into another diet attempt, and all it does is cause me to yo-yo, gaining even more weight than I already need to lose.

Are you following the book at the moment?

Hi, ladies...What a beautiful, sunny spring day in Vermont! Hopefully, it'll help the flooding recede.

I have a question. Do you think we have to figure out WHY we ever started doing emotional eating, or do you think it's okay if we don't ever really know, as long as we're working on cutting it down or out?

Evelyn Tribole's book, you mean? I own it and I've read it more than once, but I haven't been eating very intuitively lately.

My therapist told me long ago that in the end, it doesn't really matter. There will always be stressors around that will make you want to do it, so figuring out why you started isn't really going to help you stop.

Yes, that's the book I meant.

I have the book too, but my sister borrowed it several years ago, and I haven't gotten it back yet. But I don't really need the book anyway--all I have to do is go back to eating the way I ate back when I was naturally thin, before I got on the diet merry go round, which messed me up and added a LOT more weight than I probably would have gained if I had never started to diet.