The Cookie Diet: Why Not; And What’s Next?
Posted on October 15, 2009
Filed Under Health & Wellness, Science & Medicine, Weight Loss
Surprise, surprise – a new diet! Cookies and weight loss? I’m certainly not knocking it; after all, I did write an article called, “The Dunkin’ Donuts Diet.” Can you lose weight eating cookies? Of course you can. Do diet plans really work? Of course they do. Every diet plan works for some people; but no diet plan works for everyone. And that should tell you something about the true nature of weight loss. Not surprisingly, experts have said that the cookie diet is another bad idea. But, honestly, what do experts really know about anything? Just like the rest of us, they know what they’ve been told – and a very small percentage of that is even remotely close to the truth. If experts knew so much, they would have already solved all of our problems, now wouldn’t they?
Experts shun the cookie diet because it is lacking in fresh produce, etc. Pay attention, experts: There are many places in the world that lack fresh produce and always have. Humans are famous for adapting; we can eat anything and thrive. As long as the Earth has been populated by humans, we’ve been putting things in our mouths to determine if we like the experience or not – not to determine if it is a part of a well-balanced diet. Humans are survivors. Humans are vehicles for experience. “Experts,” on the other hand, are people who paid good money for answers and cling tightly to the information they were given – if they didn’t, it wouldn’t be valuable. Every diet plan is created by some kind of expert; and every diet plan is opposed by some other kind of expert. Experts are a dime-a-dozen. Don’t you wish cookies were as affordable?
There is a simple truth about life and all diets seem to ignore it. Life is for living – not for worrying about what you’re eating. Imagine ancient humans who were happy to find anything to eat – not neurotic about eating enough servings of this or that. Think about animals, for example. Cows are made of meat, bone, muscle, fat, etc – just like humans. Yet cows make those delicious steaks out of grass and water, air and sunshine. Elephants and Gorillas are very similar; they are very large and are vegetarians. And look at dogs; they’ll eat whatever you give them. It’s pretty easy to find those elements in practically anything we eat. How our bodies shape those elements, however, is a matter of psychology. Interestingly, dogs typically won’t be overweight unless their owner is. Hmmm… Humans are made primarily of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon; and we’re formed around some energetic or informational design. We’re made of the same basic elements of most every living thing; but we take on a different shape. I submit to you that our shape is not so much determined by what we take in as what we take in is determined by our shape – psychologically, that is. In other words, it’s not what we’re eating, it’s what’s eating us that makes us fat.
Stressful thoughts and beliefs cause the release of stress hormones that slow our digestion and convert undigested food into fat for storage. Coincidentally, stressful thoughts create uncomfortable feelings most of us soothe by eating food for distraction. Medicine is famous for interchangeably using the concepts of “causation” and “correlation.” Food isn’t causing us to be fat; stress causes us to eat AND it also causes our bodies to produce fat. Stress is the enemy – not food. This is the reason diets are famous for not working. All diets will cause the body to burn off some excess fat; but, if there is no change in our thoughts and beliefs, our body will take the first opportunity to restore the status quo – with a little extra protection this time. Ancient scholars, philosophers and holy men alike, told us that we are the products of our thoughts and that the health of our bodies is determined by the health of our mind and thoughts. Learning to be happy is essential to good health.
So eat those cookies. Eat donuts. Eat whatever you want. But first, get a life and get a grip on your thoughts and emotions. If you do, you’ll find you don’t have as much time or desire to eat. But, if you don’t get a grip on your mental life, you’ll probably find that you have a knack for turning even diet food into fat. A cookie diet? Why not? It certainly isn’t any more or less ridiculous than any other diet plan. But, whether you believe it or not, what you do with your mind, thoughts and life will determine if and how long you maintain any success or results you may experience. The cookie diet will work if you believe it will and allow it to. But no diet will work if you don’t change your mind and thoughts — the mind and thoughts that created the stress that created the fat in the first place. And that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
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“it’s not what we’re eating, it’s what’s eating us that makes us fat” WOW. I can’t express enough how hard the truth of this statement hit me while reading your wonderful post. Lately, I’ve been uber positive, scarily productive and full or vim and vigor; however, I’ve put on some extra pounds that seem unwilling to depart. I realize that a part of me is reacting to all my recent accomplishment with fear (stress). What a terrific reminder for me to focus on my responses to life instead of the numbers on my scale. Thank you.