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I Tried Every Diet. None Fixed Me

I still remember the grocery cart full of grapefruits. Thirty-six of them, because I'd calculated exactly how many I'd need for two weeks of "before every meal." The checkout person didn't ask. Then it was cabbage. Bags and bags of it, convinced this time would be different. The soup tasted like disappointment by day three, but I kept going because the scale moved. Five eggs every morning during my "high protein phase." I told myself it was science, not desperation. Each fad felt like hope wrapped in restriction. Grapefruit, cabbage soup, eggs—I collected them like lottery tickets. The weight came off, came back, came off again. I wasn't hungry for food. I was hungry for control, for the feeling that I'd finally cracked some code everyone else knew. Turns out the code was just eating like a normal person. Took me years to remember what that felt like. #DietHopping #FoodControl #NotJustAboutTheScale #Health #Diet