Dieting is Such an Ugly Word!!!

First Blog of the rest of my life!!!
Hello fellow dieters...I may assume that you are a dieter, or you probably wouldn't have gone to the trouble of reading this blog. As my tile states, this is the first bog I've ever written, although have been meaning to write about this subject for YEARS!!!
The first question I had to ask myself is; do I really have anything of value to say, to write, to provide you, a fellow dieter, that you haven't already been told over and over again? Probably nothing entirely new, to be honest! What I do know is that after almost four decades of dieting, there is absoulutely NO magic pill, no potion, no quick fix to permanently address this issue. Don't stop reading just yet though.
What I may be able to offer is a plan...not a diet, but a plan that you and I can work on together. Perhaps a good place to start would be to provide a bit of my life long history. I think of my life long struggle with weight as if I've been riding the "roller coaster of weight," it is the best analogy to explain how many times I've been up, way up that hill called gain, and ridden it back down on the other side. The fact that it has been, and will always be my lifelong ride, may lend a bit of credibility to what I have to say.

I don't know about you but am I the only one who resents those woman who write books and make a ton of money on their weight "issue," the ones who post a pre-birth picture of themselves and call it their before picture, and use their "after" picture, which is the size they always are when they aren't pregnant, as their after picture. They then feel the have a right to preach "how they did it" to the rest of us. Us, being the life long losers and gainers and losers....and gainers! I am fed up with those ladies who have not done any real "time" on the coaster, who feel that one time up the hill called gain, and back down on the other side, is enough to allow them into "our club." They have no right to even ask to belong..they know not of what we live, every day, year in, year out.
How about that other friend of yours, the one who weighs about five pounds over her ideal weight, who has decided that since she hit 30 something, she had better be working on that itsy bitsy "tire" around her middle so it doesn't get out of hand...whatever! Go on a three day diet, you light weight, (literally), lose that three to five pound weight gain, and stop whining about it!!
You are NOT one of us, you are not welcome to spout off about how you "lost it" either!

There are REAL dieters who have been up and down those hills since childhood, and if we are not careful everyday of our lives, that coaster cart starts climbing ever higher, ever higher.
I was born in the early 60's, a time when nutrition and health and exercise was a part of the weekly Jack LaLanne Show, it wasn't part of my daily life, nor really anyone else that I knew. Oh sure, there was that weird neighbor who I'd see riding his 10 speed bike to and from his house everyday, but again, he was weird! Still and all, I was by far the heaviest kid in my class almost throughout my entire school age years. No one I knew of my skinny friends were ever driven to an after school club, class or activity. We all had no time for mom to drive us places after school, as we were all too busy playing outside, every night until the street lights went on. Is there a correlation? Of course there is!!
More on that next time!