The Grace Diet


This is either going to be a major part of this blog or I will start a new blog just for The Grace Diet. For right now I will just make it a part of this blog. The Grace Diet can actually be incorporated into most weight-loss programs. It is more of a style of diet than a specific diet plan; although it does have a basic structure to it. My basic diet helps control Diabetes and Kidney Disease. Your basic diet might be for something else. I do realize that there are some people who have to be on a very strict diet or suffer major consequences. For those people this diet might not work very well. But for some people this just might be the only diet that will work.
I came up with this diet, because I was having trouble staying on my Diabetic/Kidney Disease Diet. Mostly because there are so many things that I was used to eating that aren't on it. Also there are a lot of things on it that I'm not used to eating , to the extent I need to, anyway. Mostly the fruit and vegetables. I've always eaten fruit and vegetables, but not to this extent. (Except maybe for the time I went on a Fruit and Vegetable Diet, for three days). I was used to eating these foods, but also foods not, on the diet, too. Such as chips, cookies, and some candy, not a lot. But after being diagnosed, with Diabetes I realized I can't eat like that now. Also with the Kidney Disease I'm not supposed to eat salt. So being on an eating plan, with no sugar and no salt my diet became very bland. I had to do something to enjoy my food and not jeopardize my health in the process. So I came up with "The Grace Diet." This is a diet that's not a diet. You do have to have some guidelines, but the Grace makes it a lot easier to not give up and quit. The way it works is to find a healthy diet, for your basic diet. A dietitian actually wrote my diet, to help me control the Diabetes and Kidney Disease, as well as lose weight. Also the diet I'm on helps control my blood pressure and cholesterol, too. Then to your basic diet, which you should plan on being your permanent diet, apply Grace. This means stay, on your diet most, of the time, but, on special occasions, like holidays and birthdays, it's ok to indulge a little. On these occasions go ahead and eat something that's not, on your diet, if you must, and don't worry about it. Just proceed, on the diet, as if you hadn't gotten off track, at all. I'm not saying to eat so much sugar or salt that you make yourself sick. Just enough to not feel so deprived. You have to use common sense. So to sum this up. Find a balanced diet you can stay on until you lose the weight you need to lose. And then adjust it for a lifestyle diet.