Fast Diet | Alanis Morisette on Eating Well Rather Than Going On a Fast Diet

Alanis Morisette on Eating Well Rather Than Going On a Fast Diet

Over the years, singer Alanis Morisette has talked quite openly about her struggles with extreme dieting. As a teenager in the music business, she has confessed to developing various eating disorders (including anorexia and bulimia) as a direct result of being pressured by powerful people in the music business who demanded that she stay within a certain weight range. She has said in interviews that there were periods during her youth when she subsisted on nothing more than pots and pots of black coffee, bits of melba toast, and not much more. She knew it was not healthy, but at the same time, she felt extreme social pressure (and industry pressure) to conform to a certain body weight, and so she did.

After a difficult breakup in recent years, her weight went up and she decided she wanted to do something about it, but she did not want to go on a fast diet or a fad diet or a crash diet or a starvation diet. She wanted to be healthy in her approach to eating. At this point, she has also mentioned publicly, she read a book on the subject called “Live to Eat,” which she found very inspiring. She also started to work out quite intensely. In fact, she is training for a marathon and hopes to raise money to help other people who have struggled with eating disorders. For her, she finds that she feels healthiest when she is on a vegan diet and works out on a regular basis.

She finds that this is a lifestyle change that she has been able to maintain for some time and hopes to keep it up forevermore. Of course, a vegan diet is not the right choice for everyone. But for her it is. The point is, she opted not to jump on the latest fast diet or fad diet bandwagon but instead chose the right set of lifestyle changes for herself, as everyone should do for themselves. A fad diet or fast diet can work for a while, but permament lifestyle changes that include getting plenty of exercise and eating healthy, energizing food are the long term solutions.

(FYI: It is important to note that the book that Ms. Morisette advocates, Eat To Live, is not written exclusively for vegans or vegetarians. It actually contains diet plans and diet advice for both vegetarians/vegans and non-vegetarians.)

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