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You know you're out with an Atkins dieter when he won't look you in the eye because he's staring at your french fries.

Unless you're, say, allergic to gluten, Atkins is a sad way to live. *clutches pasta tightly*

Also, when people go on diets, do they ever intend to go off of them, or is it a permanent kind of thing?

Hee! So true. :3 I hope someone metaquotes you.

Sad, that.

Some people seem to stay on them forever. I don't think I could deal.

It's vastly amusing when it happens. :)

It's pretty funny, actually. :) Tonight it was the french fries. Sunday breakfast, he was eyeing my toast like it was Eliza Dushku.

It almost makes you long for the good old days when men looked at your breasts.

Almost.

I thought that diet were supposed to have end points. You know, "I'll swear off carbs until I'm 50 kg." But then you gain it all back, so you have to start dieting again, and then suddenly it's been years since the last time you had pasta. Scary.

*nods sympathetically*

One of my best friends is an Atkins dieter. When she falls off the wagon, it's cake and chips in a big way. When she's on the wagon, I just don't order chips when I eat with her: I like to have her full attention...

Depends on the diet, I'm thinking. Me, I'm doing South Beach, which means no fries/pancakes/pasta/POTATOES for me, though after the first two weeks I'm now able to eat whole grain stuff. First two weeks is hardcore suckage, but honestly, after that, it got easier. Not just that the diet got easier, but the resisting did too. I got a sandwich with unexpected fries this weekend, and let my mother eat them with only a small pang. I remember they taste good, but eh. I've got a shot at getting back into my skinny clothes!

There's two ways of looking at what happens when you reach the weight you want. 1: You go to phase 3 of the diet, and stay on it forever and ever amen. 2: You go off the diet, but with a new awareness that you're not sixteen anymore and can't eat everything you want, so you stay away from some things. 3: Screw it, I can always go on the diet again if I gain the weight back! I'm aiming for 2.

3: Screw it, I can always go on the diet again if I gain the weight back!

This one is just not healthy. Also, if high school girls are any indication, it leads to a lot of "I'll starve until prom and then gorge the day after!" I'm a fan of exercise, mostly from habit. Also, it's easier for me to work out strenuously than it is to avoid food that I like.

That was the sarcastic one. So far as exercise goes, I've had and let lapse too many gym memberships to really believe that "this time I'll stick to it!" I'm trying to exercise, but it's a whole lot more realistic for me to commit to exercising caution with my food choices than to exercising itself.

Oh, I know. Sadly, I had many classmates during junior high and high school that were completely un-sarcastic about (3).

Crazy teenagers aside, suus cuique mos.

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