Diet Mania

     I was reorganizing some bookshelves last weekend and discovered I’m even more of a Dilettante Dieter than I thought.  Here are the diet books and diet cookbooks that were scattered around various bookshelves in one room:

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Fattening

Intuitive Eating

How to Never Look Fat Again

I Can Make You Thin

Master Your Metabolism Cookbook

The Most Decadent Diet

Eat To Live

The End of Overeating

The Gluten Free Vegan

My Diva Diet

Cook Yourself Thin

The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen

Shortcuts To Big Weight Loss

The Biggest Loser Fitness Program

Zone Meals in Seconds

Fast Food Fix

Eat This, Not That

The No S Diet

When Food is Love

A Guide To Ending Compulsive Eating

The South Beach Diet

The Biggest Loser Family Cookbook

Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine

The Beck Diet

Health and Weight Loss Breakthroughs

8 Minutes in the Morning

Dr.  Atkins’ New Diet Revolution

Eating Well Diet

Low-Carb Bible

Eat to Live

The End of Overeating

Eating By Design

400 Calorie Fix: The Easy New Rule for Permanent Weight Loss!    [You gotta love the !]

You Can Think Yourself Thin

     See?  There’s a reason I’m crazy.  These are just the ones I forgot about over the past decade.  (I have many more scattered throughout the house.)  I learned from some, and others are not worth the time I spent reading them, or the space they take up.  Some of books were bundled into the “give away” pile.  One particularly condescending and ignorant book was thrown against a wall, then dropped into the garbage.  In other rooms, I have at least eight Weight Watchers Cookbooks and tons of point counters for restaurants, point counters for home cooking, etc.  I have been on nearly all of these diets at one time or another in the last fifteen years.  Not a single one of them helped me change my eating habits forever.  Not a single one of them helped me lose and keep the weight off.  Scary.  Crazy scary.