eDiets on the Brain

I just stink at moderating myself.  I don’t know why.  I can moderate the kids, moderate the bills, moderate other people, but when it comes to moderating myself, I am awful.  I have dieted all of my life, but my greatest successes have been when I have let other people tell me what to eat.  Why is this??  I just don’t get it at all. 

So I have had my eye on eDiets most recently.  I have watched this company for quite a few years now, and they are always so tempting to join, but really over the last year, they have gotten almost irresistible.  They have every diet known to man just about, and they are always up on the current dieting “trends” – isn’t that sad that we have dieting trends??  Currently their featured diets are:

• eDiets.com Weight Loss Diet
• Atkins Diet (check)
• Winter Diet (huh?)
• Glycemic Diet (probably the one I am most interested in)
• Mediterranean Diet
• Slim Fast Optima Diet
• Trim Kids

Mind boggling, no?  There are so many choices.  Which one is right?  Years ago I went on a diet with some of my fellow church goers that was based on the Bible.  Basically it said to really listen to your body, it will tell you when and what to eat.  The Atkins diet wants you to eat like “early man” – meat, veggies, nuts and berries.  To me, these two concepts sort of merge.  I think that these things were put on the earth for us to eat, and that is what we are supposed to be eating.  I don’t know, its a big ol rat race.  What I do know is that I need not have too many choices, it works better for me for someone to tell me exactly what to do. 

I got a horoscope in my email box this morning, it said this:

LEO – The Boss (July 23 – Aug 22)
Very organized. Need order in their lives – like being in control. Like boundaries. Tend to take over everything.  Bossy. Like to help  Others. Social and outgoing.  Extroverted. Generous, warm-hearted. Sensitive. Creative energy. Full of themselves. Loving. Doing the right thing is important to Leos. Attractive.

The part that caught me was the “Like Boundaries.” That has crept up all day for me, and it is creeping up again.  I think I need boundaries, I certainly do in the food department.  Darn it.