Dieting Doesn't Work

So I haven't been very focused on this for the last few days. I have been eating mostly fruit and some greens but then at night I have been giving in to tofu cravings. And it seems weird to be craving tofu, of all things! And I went out to dinner at a Thai place and had mainly raw and cooked veggies.
I'm not trying to be perfect about this whole thing. I have tried "dieting" for so many years that today I tend to agree with this:

Diets fail because they are predicated on a desire to replace something ‘bad’ with something ‘good’. This kind of illusory thinking sets up all kinds of resistance in an already threatened system. We all are habituated or ‘addicted’ in a sense to whatever we require to maintain an acceptable level of function. The things we depend on should never be thought of as bad for us as this type of thinking just adds to the negative impact of our environmental circumstances. Rather we might consider a gentle systematic approach with an eye toward becoming differently adapted to a more helpful set of environmental signals. There need not be any sense of substituting something good for something bad...

..It appears much is being made of specialized diets consisting of most or all uncooked food. Though an interesting twist in the history of diet reform as a means to physical and spiritual enlightenment, the suggestion of ‘raw food’ as a single point solution falls short of providing a complete reality map one could follow to a satisfying conclusion. With the level of compromise most of us have experienced at least on the physical level, even the most gradual attempts to reform our environment will eventually be met with insurmountable resistance. Diet as well as any other environmental outcome is the result of years of adaptation which controls how we filter our universe. Perhaps it would be wiser to consider gently transitioning our filtering interface rather than using another’s will power as a crutch. BLINDGURU

So I've eaten the last of the tofu and I am consciously making a decision to not buy more. I am curious to find out what this is about. I highly suspect it is emotional so guess I'll have to feel something.


Everything in this room is eatable. Even *I'm* eatable! But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. Willy Wonka