Calorie Counter Queen

I think I’ve gone on nearly every diet know to woman. My journey started after age fourteen. Before then, I was like a fan of “eat all that you can.” Sparse eating days were far and few between. My eating habits were those of a starved wolverine. I have the gene called FTO; it means I don’t get full when I have eaten lots of food; it’s in my DNA! Translation: Everything I eat, I still want another mouthful. . . another. . . and another, and since I am this way, I had to start on diets, helping fat to melt away! I did a lot of crazy diets in my teenagehood - like eating just bananas all week long. Any dietition will tell you THAT’s no good, but I was young and stupid, and I’d go along with all the diet fads, which were wrong, just crazy wrong. I found a good one – Atkins, and later I found out I am the Blood type O, so my body is its best eating lots of protein (Keto), but I’d go without those carbs I liked so much, and that made me depressed until I read a book in which O’s “good carbs” were addressed. “Eat 4 Your Blood Type” Diet helped me well to know the types of fruits and other carbs I ought or ought not eat. More weight I lost and then kept off a few more years or so! I gave myself permission to even sometimes cheat, for if you’re being mostly good, there’s no sin in a treat. All along with every diet, I’ve made sure to count the calories that each day I’ve consumed. You can ask me anything. I feel like I’m a fount of knowledge. Knowing calories so well, I have presumed to know each day my “number;” If I go over, I feel doomed! ‘ In the last two decades I’ve still been up and down. But mostly I am fit from exercise. In counting of the calories, I think I wear the crown. I just forego my lunch if for dinner I want fries! Also I make sure each week to fit into my levi’s! I got real fat for a few years, but then I got right back to a healthy weight not too hard to maintain. Imperfect habit I don’t lack. From eating yummy foods I do not constantly refrain, but I’m very careful that those pounds I don’t regain. Finally, I learned what’s best when cancer came to me. What I learned from getting that disease was eat antioxidants! A wannabe nutritionist I now fancy myself to be. I make sure to get in all the fruits and veggies that I please. I think that in nutrition I’ve gained lots of expertise! March 27, 2023 For the Expertise In Verse Poetry Contest of Jaymee Thomas