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January 2, 2004
I Do What Everybody Else Does. It Makes Me Feel Safe.
So I'm starting a diet at the beginning of the year. Not on purpose, but because I knew that starting a diet right before going away for Christmas to see the in-laws would be a bit touchy. A pleasant side-effect is that at this time of the year, the diet products I chose to buy are on sale. Since I'm going on Atkins, I needed to get some supplements. Saved a huge amount of money with the sales, but I think I'll buy them online in the future, as they seem to be cheaper.
So, why Atkins? Well, I come from a long line of women who have died too young from diabetes. Atkins may be able to help me control that. And the dietary suggestions seem to be fairly straightforward.
How does a vegetarian do Atkins? Eggs. Eggs are your friend, apparently. Not bad, since I like eggs a lot, and cheese, too. But the fact that I've been eating fish this year will help a lot. We're also going to give duck a try and see if it makes me as vilely ill as chicken does. I don't know; I think I might have had duck once or twice as a kid, but not in the last twenty or so years.
The biggest sacrifice is bread. I do like eggs and toast quite a bit, but there will be no toast for me for at least two weeks, if not more. Bummer.
One thing I have discovered is that eating the Atkins version of peanut butter cups makes you not want to eat peanut butter cups ever again. I guess that's positive. I wish diet product makers would realize that one of the appealing things about peanut butter cups is not that they have chocolate, but that they have soft, oily, salty peanut butter in the middle. Dammit. Anyway, hard chocolate things with a dry, somewhat peanutty filling are not my idea of fun. (Note: as I was walking out of the grocery store with my new Atkins booty, I noted a giant display for white-chocolate Reese's peanut butter cups. Heaven help me.)
Posted by ayse on 01/02/04 at 8:56 PM