Waking Up Me!

For many of us, a diet has come to represent the verb form of the word rather than the noun ( dictionary.com ): Noun:  The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats. Verb:  Restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight. The noun form is what we should be doing to live this life of ours and the verb form is the act of doing that. Yesterday, I started what is referred to as eating clean. Eating in this way was not  but Tosca Reno who is the author of The Eat-Clean Diet,  The Eat-Clean Diet  Recharged,  The Eat-Clean Diet  Stripped, and cookbooks featuring recipes for this lifestyle as well. As she states on her website about the "diet" : " Eating Clean is not a fad; it’s a way of life. " So many so-called diets are not lifestyles, but are ways to drop weight which is only a short-term fix.  If you are an emotional eater like me, you may be bound to being a yo-yo dieter who loses and ga...