The Undiet

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…”
— Shakespeare, Henry V

I want to lose weight but diets haven’t worked for me. So I have a new plan. It involves not eating.

The trouble with diets is that when you eat a little food each day you stay hungry. But if you don’t eat anything, your body adjusts and after a few days you’re not hungry. You really aren’t. It’s magical.

But I’m not fasting. I make at least one glass of vegetable juice each day. I like juice by itself, but I kick it up a notch by adding flavored psyllium fiber. That replaces some of the fiber that the juicer removes. I also drink an isolate protein “shake” each day. Isolate protein is almost pure protein.

I make my juice because the bottled vegetable juice from the grocery store is often mostly tomato juice that has been pasteurized. It’s good for making a Bloody Mary but I question how healthy it is. Heat destroys some nutrients. It also contains added sugar and salt and chemicals that probably are not found in your average vegetable, such as potassium chloride, magnesium carbonate, disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate.

I hope this “undiet” works. When I look down, it would be nice to see my toes again. I know they’re still there, but I wonder what they look like. It’s been too long since I’ve seen them.