Diet...???
What does the word diet conjure up when you hear it?
For me the word diet just means the foods I eat in a day/week, I've never really thought of the word as relating to a 'fad' diet, or a restricted calorie diet. I was once asked, "Are you allowed to eat chocolate when you're on a diet?", this was after informing a guy that my diet was going well. I had to explain to him that 'diet' to me means whatever I'm eating as part of my daily plan at any particular time in my life, and that, yes, of course I can eat chocolate....and that I could eat anything I wanted. I was 8stone 4 pound and was eating everything in sight, pretty much every day...so I was not restricting foods at all. He was a bit confused, since he had the thought pattern of 'diet' meaning restricted foods, or just eating bowls of cabbage soup...
So, the word 'diet' is really not a good word to use, since society seems to see it as a restrictive thing, anyone else come across this.
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