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February 4, 2012

By Deanna Brown Corsicana Daily Sun The Corsicana Daily Sun Sat Feb 04, 2012, 07:48 PM CST

Corsicana — If ever you’ve been one, like me, who battles their weight constantly, no doubt you’ve been on some weird diets.

Just the other day, I forgot part of my lunch and Bob Belcher offered me a packet of tuna from his desk drawer. It reminded me of a time about nine years ago when I was on a specific diet, and brought those little packets of tuna to work with me daily, along with a banana. My office scent was never inviting during that spell. And I never lost a pound.

I’ve tried diets where I ate lots of grapefruit. Those weren’t bad, because I really like grapefruit. It’s just not a handy thing to whoop out of your purse and eat in an elevator.

The diet where you eat only meat (what was it, Atkins?) doesn’t really stick in my mind, though it seems like we ate lots of bacon. I didn’t lose any weight on that one, either. I love bacon, especially if it gets a little charred.

Then there was the one with the green beans and the beets. And lots of carrots, if I recall.

Yep, you got it. No pounds lost with that one, either.

So, because of my health issues of late a friend’s mom recommended a website to both me and my own mom, called greattastenopain.com.

I visited the website finally, and have to admit, what this lady says makes sense.

Now mind you, this is not a diet. It is an eating plan. Big difference. There are no big claims you will lose weight (which is good, since I’ve been following it a month and I haven’t) but it does purport to facilitate better health.

I’m not good with all that anatomy/science type stuff. If you’re interested, just check it out.

The premise is that if you combine your foods properly, you’ll no longer have stomach pain, acid reflux, heartburn, and along list of other ailments this lady claims are caused by improperly mixing food, and thereby causing poor digestion.

I will say that I was taking heartburn meds around the clock, and was still waking with a burning in my chest prior to starting the plan. I now only take those if I fudge on the plan, because I just don’t need them anymore.

Because I have a tendency toward lazy, I only looked at the first sample day of the eating plan, and made myself a food list for the day to take to work. My co-workers know it is still morning if I’m eating oatmeal. They know if they see me eat an apple, I should not have eaten anything three hours prior to that or 20 minutes afterward. And my carrots and peanut butter in the afternoons are how they know 5 p.m. can’t be far off.

Janet has declared this a “weird diet.”

All I know is I bought two books off this website, one that describes all the reasons to eat this way, and the other is chock full of recipes I’m just too lazy to attempt.

All the testimonials on the website of people who’ve used the plan purport weight loss. In actuality, my lack of weight loss could be from the fact I have yet to give up coffee.

The first day I tried the plan, I woke up and had a nice big steaming cup of Constant Comment instead of my customary 6 to 8 cups of coffee. Two hours later, I was laid out with a migraine so bad I had to cover my entire face and head to block out the light and no meds would make it let up.

Not sure, but that may be a sign of a serious caffeine addiction.

So, I’m still stepping it back, trying to wean myself off the coffee slowly. I’m down to 4 cups now. Whereas before, reporters drink coffee all day and all night, right? I lived by that credo.

But it’s a new day for Deedee. She wants to be around to see those grandbabies grow up!

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Deanna Brown is a Daily Sun staff writer and editor of Ex•plore Magazine. Her column appears on Sundays. She may be reached by email at dbrown@corsicanadailysun.com. Want to “Soundoff” on this column? Email: soundoff@corsicanadailysun.com

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