Dieting.

I have always, always been one of those douchey people who look down on being healthy. I take a secret, kind of sick pride in my lack of willpower, as anyone who knows me in real life has seen when I've drank excessively or bought a new gold thing for my apartment (not real gold.) I once made the mistake of explaining to a dude I didn't know very well how I ate so much of something delicious that I threw up, which pretty much made him think I had an eating disorder, even though it was the opposite and I just have a really bad gag reflex. I don't have a gym membership. The last time I ran was years ago.

But with a wedding coming up, a certain pink dress and photos I need to be wearing it for, I started to feel nervous. Every girl thinks about her weight a lot, we just learn it's not really socially acceptable to talk about it openly. I mean, plenty of girls do, but it kind of sucks for everyone else around. And I started to feel insecure again.

Then this weekend, a friend told me all about how he and his girlfriend had started the Four Hour Body diet, by some guy who apparently writes all kinds of self help books (also famous for the Four Hour Workweek). Normally this is something I'd sneer at, but this friend who's opinion I usually trust insisted that it worked super fast. It was actually getting to the point where they'd both kind of lost too much weight.

Now, I didn't buy the book, but you can find everything about it for free. Basically you eat no sugar, and no carbs at all, not even brown rice or whole grain things. No tofu. Only certain cheeses, and no beer, liquor or white wine (this rule I need to bend). Meat, legumes, and non-starchy vegetables, and that's it. And then one day a week, you eat whatever you want, which supposedly spikes your metabolism so you don't starve to death.

I'm going to try it (as well as I can with no willpower) and see what happens. Hopefully I don't die.

Update: Eating all protein and no carbs destroys your alcohol tolerance. FYI!