Haitian Beatz

The older I get, the more I find myself worried about my weight. Well, not so much my weight, more so my health.  For us non scientific folks, weight is usually our indicator of health. I continuously say to

myself, I do not want to go into my 30’s with any kind of unhappiness about my weight. The last year and half I have truly been on a journey to discover what works for me.  I have never been a person that fits into the norm anyways. And even when I find a norm that I fit into, I usually need to tweak it and make it my own and it’s no different with food. We are not cookie cutter people, so the trick with everything is to find what fits our personalities, budget and lifestyle.

There are many diet crazes out there. And honestly I have tried quite a few of them. I use to beat myself over that very fact too. But I have come to realize that it is ok. How else will one determine what is best for them if they don’t try different things- it just so happens, sometimes it is lots and lots of different things.

Below are some food regimens that I have tried. Some were simply to lose weight, others were my attempt at trying to figure out a way of eating long term that would make sense and work for me in my goal to be physically healthy.

Atkins Diet
Atkins Diet revolutionized the way popular culture thought about food in the new millennium (even though the diet had been around since th 70’s). During my college days, pretty much everyone I knew, had tried the Atkins diet at some point. What was the appeal? In a nutshell, The Atkins asked you to eliminate or minimize to almost nothing, the intake of carbohydrates (sugars and starches) from your diet. The focus is on protein and vegetables. Since fruits have sugars, you virtually cannot eat fruit either, at least not in the initial stages. The Diet has 4 stages: Induction, Ongoing Weight Loss, Pre-Maintenance, Lifetime Maintenance, but the induction is the killer. You can have steak, eggs, burgers, and anything fatty that your heart desires. Yup,  you can eat all you want of the bad stuff that your doctors have told you not to eat, but you can’t have rice, bread, pasta, or anything flour. No sodas or juices of any kind. Talk about restrictive. Imajine sa, no du riz avek pwa kongo, no Macaroni au gratin, no salad russe, nope!