My fresh resolution to Review All The Books is going to lend you some insight into some of the embarrassing shit that I read. Alice, I can hear you making fun of me from here.
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In Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? she admits to loving diet books, and I was like, WOMAN, yes. Because so do I.
It isn't even that I follow the diets, because omg so much work. But sometimes my own personal diet veers off into Giving Me Diabetes Now And Alzheimer's Later territory, and diet books are friendly reminders about all the foods out there that I LIKE and that would probably do me better service than a Costco box of ice cream treats. It's like watching Hoarders to get you moving on your housework.
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The thesis of this one is that eating a diet lower in fat and higher in carbohydrates spikes your insulin levels so that the fat you eat gets trapped in YOUR fat and then your body gets hungry because it can't access that fat, on account of all the insulin. The whole 'feed your brain' bit is kind of incidental to the book, but makes for an eye-catching title.
And I'm already sort of on this ship, even if I'm not captain (all the best foods are carbohydrated, and the best of THOSE are refined to the nines), so for all the sciencey parts I was like, Yes, fine, good, this makes total sense. And because I'm just trying to stop my downward spiral of ice cream treats rather than trying to lose any weight, I skimmed over all the pep-talky bits. Also because they were awful and contained such inane, generalistic babble as 'how it feels to be overweight is never good.'
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The middle third is recipes, which is really why we are here, and the last ten pages are just an elaborate ad for Vita-Loss, or whatever. I have a hard time taking you seriously when you've developed your own Lose Weight Quickly pill and are trying to shill it to me.
The Moroccan stew looks kind of good, though.
In Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? she admits to loving diet books, and I was like, WOMAN, yes. Because so do I.
It isn't even that I follow the diets, because omg so much work. But sometimes my own personal diet veers off into Giving Me Diabetes Now And Alzheimer's Later territory, and diet books are friendly reminders about all the foods out there that I LIKE and that would probably do me better service than a Costco box of ice cream treats. It's like watching Hoarders to get you moving on your housework.
Sort of not the right attitude, but let's.
The thesis of this one is that eating a diet lower in fat and higher in carbohydrates spikes your insulin levels so that the fat you eat gets trapped in YOUR fat and then your body gets hungry because it can't access that fat, on account of all the insulin. The whole 'feed your brain' bit is kind of incidental to the book, but makes for an eye-catching title.
And I'm already sort of on this ship, even if I'm not captain (all the best foods are carbohydrated, and the best of THOSE are refined to the nines), so for all the sciencey parts I was like, Yes, fine, good, this makes total sense. And because I'm just trying to stop my downward spiral of ice cream treats rather than trying to lose any weight, I skimmed over all the pep-talky bits. Also because they were awful and contained such inane, generalistic babble as 'how it feels to be overweight is never good.'
NEVER GOOD, new bride. Heed the Brain Surgeon.
The middle third is recipes, which is really why we are here, and the last ten pages are just an elaborate ad for Vita-Loss, or whatever. I have a hard time taking you seriously when you've developed your own Lose Weight Quickly pill and are trying to shill it to me.
The Moroccan stew looks kind of good, though.