GM Diet Cleanse - REALLY??

A month of yo-yo dieting after 8 years of trying to stay thin, and that daydream of the Genie and the lamp creeping back into my subconscious has me ready to try something different. I'm going to bowl left-handed.

You see, back in my single years, I was on a bowling team in the winter.

I live in the midwest. We have little to do in the winter. Don't judge.

I was a decent bowler, mostly went for the beer and socializing. But I did enjoy bowling well. I mean, who likes to do something...crappy. Crappily??  Who likes to perform poorly? Every once in a while my form would be off.  I'm right-handed and I would be throwing gutter after gutter. I tried altering my stance, I had people (well, mostly, drunk friends) watch me and critique. I kept my eye on the head pin. I pointed with my thumb as I released the ball.  Nothing would work.

So I would switch hands. One frame. Two balls. Left-handed. And it would magically correct my form. Neither of those balls was worth a single pin, usually. But they were worth the sacrifice because I'd come back stronger the next frame, my form back to normal. My right hand working as it should.

After a half dozen plus years of battling the carb creep, failing and succeeding, I'm ready to left-handed bowl.

The polar opposite dieting philosophy to the Atkins plan (or South Beach or Beachbody, or whatever else has since copied the Atkins philosophy), is the GM Diet/Cleanse. Low-fat, restrictive as hell, loaded with sugar (natural...in the form of fruits, but still sugar), and tending to make one perpetually hungry for seven full days, it seems the perfect selection for my theory. My oldest stepdaughter introduced me to the concept when she did it about the time I was starting my latest fat fast/induction cycle. She lost 11 pounds on her 7-day GM Diet, I lost 10 on Atkins, but gained back 4. But then...I stalled.  She hasn't lost a whole lot more, but didn't really need to.

My logic is, as in bowling, if I shock my system into doing the exact opposite of what I want it to do, it will stop being resistant to the magic of Atkins. I plan to do the full 7 days of the GM Diet, then jerk my body out of Reverse and straight into Drive. Transmission be damned.