I hate dieting. Most people know this about me due to the fact that no matter how much I complain about my figure, I continue to eat basically the same foods. I have found that if you want to lose weight, the absolute worst thing you can do is go on a "diet" and decide to cut things entirely out of your diet. In my experience, this will only lead to failure and general hatred towards the world at large when in the presence of carbohydrates. Rather than be extreme and cut things completely, simply eat less of it and more of healthy things, exercise, and eat smaller portions. It's simple.
Salads in particular are one of the worst mistakes of dieting. Not to say that salads are not good for you or not delicious, because I personally love vegetables and eat salads whether I am dieting or not for both the taste and nutritional value. However, my boyfriend introduced me to a phrase the other day which I have found to describe salads perfectly: "just enough food to piss me off." The other day I was feeling particularly defeated when I looked at myself in the mirror, analyzing every pooch and roll and mentally beating myself up for gaining weight over the summer. So when I went to work that day at 4, I decided to eat a salad for dinner rather than a hoagie to cut down on carbs. As I spent the next 7 hours waiting tables and carrying fresh, cheesy pizzas to tables, this proved to be a terrible mistake. The energy lasted me for maybe 2 hours, and only made me more hungry. I learned the other day that professional eaters expand their stomach by eating massive amounts of lettuce, which expand the stomach. So, when people eat nothing but salads for diets, they are actually expanding their stomach's capacities for taking in food, making it harder to become full when they get around to eating real food again, making the diet pointless.
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