Blood Type A+

"The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.  By the second day you're off it." - Jackie Gleason

Yesterday I was visiting my Mom and she starting talking about the Blood Type diet.  She had the book on the kitchen table and she started reading parts of it to me.   We are both A+ and she was reading off the A+ food list.  It says the only protein type A’s should eat is chicken, cornish game hens, turkey and some types of fish.  

As she was talking my mind drifted off and I was thinking about a big juicy hamburger, or meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, or maybe some nice thick pork chops with a bowl of applesauce on the side.  I realized that no matter what diet or plan of eating I tried to attempt in the past, the minute something was restricted it became the object of my desires.  

And I am not alone in that. It’s our nature.  Take a kid and put three toys in front of them and then tell them it’s okay to play with the toys except the middle toy and then leave the room.  I guarantee that as soon as you are out of sight the kid is playing with the middle toy.  It’s nature!  And if the kid isn’t playing with the toy - they are sitting there using massive amounts of willpower trying NOT to play with the toy.  Either way all the attention is focused on that toy!

That is what dieting is like for me.  It brings out my petulant kid - who  wants what she wants and won’t be told what to do!  There is something more exciting and desirable about the forbidden.