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The Only Kind of Diet I'll Do

I'm not one that likes diets in the slightest. Like "I'm not going to eat gluten ever again." Are you fucking allergic? No, then why the fuck are you doing it? I had to eat gluten free for a few weeks last summer because they thought I may have developed an allergy to gluten. Thankfully, I didn't because gluten free food is limited as all mighty fuck here and it's fucking expensive.

I don't think you should do diets to lose weight when you're the high end of the normal range or even a little overweight. Those people of "My 600 lb Life", I think they need diets at least long enough to get done to a healthier weight.

I think if you're going to do a diet and you're in a normal or even a little above a normal weight range, you shouldn't do it to lose weight. I think you should do a diet because you want to feel better physically. For example, if you are getting constipated frequently, and you change your diet to help fix that. Or if you're trying to slim down fat and gain muscle tone. Note: that muscle weights more than fat so you'll most likely gain weight as you put on muscle.

I've mentioned before that I do clean eating. I don't know how many of you know what clean eating is exactly. I'm going to explain it. It's a diet, but it's not limiting like a lot of other diets. I don't do it lose weight or gain muscle tone. I do it because I sleep better, I feel better physically when I have to do things like marching band and running. I don't feel bloated as often, especially during my period I don't bloat that often anymore. I used to have the worst fucking period cramps imaginable. Like I wouldn't be able to get out of bed hardly and I would vomit because my uterus was cramping that hard. I saw something on Tumblr about clean eating and I looked into it. I decided to give it a try to see if it would help at all. It did.

Now I would also like to note that I think this part is very important (to me personally) but also slightly ironic because of the fact that I do work at McDonald's and that's not clean eating in the slightest. To get started, I'll explain what clean eating actually is and what is tends to help people out with.

Clean eating entails that you don't eat processed foods as much. By that I mean of course you can go out to McDonald's occasionally, but you should limit it to like once or twice a month at max. In cleaning eating you eat whole foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, no artificial ingredients or preservatives, sugars, saturated fat, and trans fat. I don't follow this to a tee because of course anything in moderation won't be bad for you. I just limit the things that contain these to a minimum, like I look at the actual serving size and measure it out or I eat less than the serving size. Pretty much focus more on non-processed foods than processed foods.

Now what are the benefits of eating like this? Reduced time of getting diseases/getting sick, increasing life quality, longer life expectancy, better sleep, healthier body and mind, etc. I used to feel so tried and sluggish throughout the day all the fucking time until I started eating clean. It gave me more energy, which I generally use to stay up and write.

Generally, you don't eat three meals when clean eating but 5 or 6. Not 5 or 6 big meals, but you take what a normal meal size would be if you ate three meals and divide it in half. So you're still eating the same amount of food, just more spaced out. The reason behind this is boost your metabolism. Also, don't skip breakfast, so many people do, and I did for the longest time.

Fucking meal prep. Plan your fucking meals out for entire fucking week. It doesn't take that long, half hour or so. If you're like me, your mom or dad (in my case step-dad) cook pretty much all the time. But that doesn't mean you can sit down with your parents and make it a goal to eat healthier as a family. It's easier that way. (Besides, my brother is in 99 percentile for this weight and it's doctor's orders he eats healthy so my mom makes us all eat like him).

Carbs are not fucking terrible like people want to think. There is a difference between good and bad carbs. It's the processed foods that have the bad carbs. Stuff like fruits, vegetables, whole grains such as brown rice. They carry more than just carbs too. They have fiber, vitamins, and minerals your body needs.

Limit fried foods. So that's pretty much every fast food restaurant (except Subway, at least around here). Yes, I'm talking about McDonald's here. They fry most of the food there. Hell, this may seem like a waste, but because I work there I get a free meal for every shift that I work. I don't use it, and if I ever do it won't be often, like once in a blue moon. The point, get rid of so many fried foods (it's perfectly okay to eat once in a while) and eat food that is grilled, poached, roasted, steamed, broiled, baked, etc.

Read the labels on your food. If you can't pronounce it, it's probably processed. Now I can read some of the things, but I can tell what's it's made up of because of the chemistry class I took. But, that's also a good guess that it's processed.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Drink half your body weight in ounces of water. Take your weight and divide by 2. That's how much water you should be drinking. Carry a water bottle around with you. It helps you remember to take a drink. Hell, I carry around a gallon of water around with me.

I've also said, I don't drink pop. I really don't. I haven't had any since November of last year. I also don't really drink juice unless it's 100% real fruit juice. I drink a lot of water and tea. Right now, I'm also drink Gatorade because I'm sick and need the electrolytes to stay hydrated properly. It's grape flavored and here I'll list off the ingredients in it: water, sugar, dextrose, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, salt, sodium citrate, mono-potassium phosphate, glycerol ester of rosin, blue 1, red 40. I don't even like Gatorade, I'm literally drinking it because I'm dehydrated and trying to get the electrolytes back in my body.

If it says diet on it, don't eat it. It's usually only lighter in fat meaning it doesn't have as much fat. It's usually the same amount of calories though. Also, a lot of the time, the sugar is doubled in so called 'diet' food.

Exercise more. I run a mile for band every day I have band camp. I also take a 4 mile walk every day (granted most of that walk now is just me playing Pokemon Go).

Eat whole grains. I don't eat white bread and I haven't for years. I love whole grain wheat bread. I think it has so much more flavor and it's better for you.

Eat more vegetables. The other day my mom made bacon wrapped asparagus. I didn't eat the bacon. I picked the asparagus out of the bacon and then threw the bacon away. (One reason being is that my mom didn't cook the bacon the way I like it because I want it crunchy not rubbery.)

Cut back on so much salt. My school's method for doing this? They refuse to give us salt. It's not even on our french fries.

That pretty much gives you an overview of my diet. It's not that hard once you get started. Start slowly and work your way up.

You can still eat foods that are normal processed like chicken nuggets and burgers. It's called make them yourself. And no I don't mean "Well I bought this at the store and put it on the stove or oven to cook." What I mean is make it homemade. You can make homemade chicken nuggets. My grandma does it all the time. As for homemade burgers, all you need is organic, fresh ground hamburger. (My family always goes up to the local butcher shop and sees what the ground hamburger is made of.) Then, all you do is take that ground hamburger, mix it with some eggs so it sticks, then my family adds onions for taste.

It's not so hard, just watching what you eat and how much.