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It’s Not a Diet, it’s a SOUL-LIT!
The change wasn’t overnight, but I began to feel differences throughout my life rather quickly
There’s a sketch from MadTV that I think of a lot. A man & woman are seated at a restaurant, and the woman is, she insists loudly, not on a DIET, she’s on a LIVE IT. The woman, played brilliantly by Nicole Sullivan, is obviously hungry to the point of weakness, but she can’t/won’t order anything on the menu because of the LIVE IT she’s on. The joke, of course, is that she insists that her ridiculously strict eating plan not be referred to as a “diet” because it has the word “die” in it and that’s negative. No, her plan is a LIVE IT because it’s designed to help her live better — so positive! But she’s hungry, she’s angry, and she’s unpleasant.
I don’t want to be any of those things.
Still, my mind returns to that sketch often, as it does to a host of MadTV sketches (for my money, more consistently funny than SNL). As is so often the case, the humor comes from the fact that there’s at least a kernel of truth in the idea.
I’ve long been opposed to “diets.” Other than not eating meat because of spiritual objections, I haven’t generally imposed a lot of boundaries on my consumption, and that’s been a good and bad thing. It’s been good in that, although I…
