Have you ever been on a diet? If so, how successful was it? Did you lose your desired weight?

Like EVERYONE on the planet who eats, I am on a diet.

I don't do a special diet to lose weight, I have dietary restrictions to keep me from gaining weight.

I try to limit my fat intake. Which means I seldom eat pizza, mayonaise, butter or margarine, donuts, pies, peanut butter. My willpower is not all that strong otherwise I would be showing more sixpack, but I just try to keep my gut from hanging over my belt, which is becoming the acceptable general appearance in the U.S.

I gave up on diets a LOOOOOOOOOONG time ago when it finally hit me they're only effective if you stay on them for the rest of your life until you die, and what's the point in that?

Nope, never been.

I've changed my eating habits to specifically lose weight before and yes, it did work.

Unfortunately if I say diet to myself I am instantly starving. I was very thin until I hit my 50's, so I never had to diet . I can thank my grandmothers genes for that, we had kids and we lost all the baby fat and then some. In those days no one accused me of being anorexic, today they would but I was perfectly healthy. Now I'm fat but I am also old so I don't care a whole lot.

You can't spell diet without d-i-e.

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Well breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam
Lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham
Dinner one chicken wing broiled not fried no gravy no biscuits no pie
And this dietin' dietin' dietin' dietin' sure is a rough way to die

So pass me a carrot stick peel me a prune a glass of skim milk and that's all
Turn off the TV for the Big Mac commercial it's drivin' me straight up the wall
And I'm think' of french fries sausage and waffles spaghetti and cookies and cake
And each night I'm dreamin' of chocolate ice cream and
I'm starvin' to death when I wake all for your sake

You're fixin' the kids all those creamed mashed potatoes
But it's bouillon and water for me and you got a lock on the refrigerator
Lord knows where you're hidin' the key
And while I am starvin' for food late at night I'm starvin' for lovin' from you
But you say that when I can see my own dick you'll be glad to look at it too

So supper two pieces of cauliflower raw some beefsteak the size of a nail
One sliced tomato a small dab of slaw I swear I ate better in jail
Stop eatin' that pizza right under my nose girl that's the least you can do
And put down that candy bar while I am singin' I'm starvin' my ass off for you
And when I am dead with the insurance paid you'll look down at me and you'll grin
You'll say well the boy tried and he suffered and died
But don't he look good when he's thin

After I had my baby, I went on a diet. That lasted all of a week and a half. Finally, I just went back to the gym and began sweating off what I ate. I'm almost down to my pre-baby weight. Not quite, but almost.