What food beliefs do you have? Did you grow up with them or develop them as you got older? Our wonderful girlfriend, the Faux Diet Queen, discusses some of the crazy food beliefs she has.

The Faux Diet Queen (or as we affectionately call her, FDQ) has agreed to share her latest (and last) weight loss journey with us as a regular feature at Girlfriendology. We hope you’ll join us to cheer her on, nudge her back on track when she strays, and generally giggle along.

From the Faux Diet Queen:

Over the years I have collected enough Food Baggage to open my own luggage store. Like most baggage, Food Baggage is heavy (accounting for nearly 12% of my body weight). And like the airlines, my hips charge extra for carrying the nonsense around.

Here are five of my all time favorite Food Baggage Tips Tricks Beliefs Bits of Ridiculousness that I am trying to lose.

• Weight loss should be instantaneous. In this age of instant gratification, it seems we can have everything just as soon as we want it. If not instantly, then at least we have the option of paying for overnight shipping. It
• If you eat standing up, the calories don’t stick because they slide right off your hips. Obvious, right?
• If you break a cookie in half, you’ve broken all the calories in half. Even if you eat both pieces.
• If you eat chocolate before your period, it counts as murder prevention not as calories.
  
• All calories are created equal; you might as well eat chocolate.

It’s not easy to lose Food Baggage. It has a way of finding you, even if you leave it standing by itself on a crowded corner someplace.

It’s not comfortable to be without the Baggage. I’ve been carting it around for so long, it feels like a part of me.

For right now, I’m content to put aside these five. I think they are the carry-on bag of my luggage. I’m not sure they ever fit in the overhead compartment, but at this point I’m ready to leave them to their own destination.

The Faux Diet Queen is a Girlfriend and a Half, trying to find her Skinny Self. She promises to be absolutely truthful in this blog (although she may stretch a point now and then) and to share the good, the bad, and the frustrations of weight-loss.

Previous Faux Diet Queen adventures: Meet the FDQ on her journey to being fit.

Girlfriendology / Debba here: We love our girlfriends no matter what size jeans they wear or what the scales tell them if they’re brave enough to get on them. (Something I personally avoid like the plague.) But, we also want our girlfriends to be around and healthy for a long time. We’re sharing this journey that our girlfriend, FDQ (the FAB Faux Diet Queen) because it’s what girlfriends do – we go through life and diets together (and shoe shopping, and highs and lows …). Join us on her journey to fitness and good health. We’re excited for her to motivate and inspire us all!

p.s. If your food stories fall into a more serious topic, like emotional eating, we’ve got a great girlfriend for you to meet too – ELLEN SHUMAN. She’s shared great advice on emotional eating on various guest blogs and podcasts. (Her podcast on emotional eating is our #1 listened to interview so lots of us have some emotional eating issues or friends/family who do.)

Tags: #FDQ, diet, emotional eating, Faux Diet Queen, food baggage, lose weight, Weight loss

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