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I Ate Lettuce For a Year

I ate lettuce for a year Only lettuce And drank water Lost sixty-four pounds I have gained it back and sixty pounds more I was young then, more disciplined Now I am old; no one notices old I can be any size I want. I could be nine hundred pounds. No one would notice So now I eat barbequed chicken, refried beans, mashed potatoes, beef and noodles, cheeseburgers, pepperoni pizza, frozen spaghetti, frozen lasagna, For dessert I have coconut cake, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, triple chocolate cake with frosting, cinnamon apple strudel, cherry cobbler with vanilla ice cream, key lime pie, or whatever else I want. I cannot drink coffee unless I put in three packets of sugars, a bit of chocolate milk, and a packet of sweetened hot cocoa. These are foods I do not eat: vegetables, fruits, or lettuce. I cannot stand to even look at lettuce.

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Date: 10/18/2021 7:26:00 PM
(chuckling) but I don't know why. I'm amazed, because I love salads. When I snack, I try to snack on fruits. Tonight for dinner I had raw celery, raw carrots, and a peanut butter sandwich. Yum! Then, I ate four pinapple rings for dessert.
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L Milton Hankins
Date: 10/18/2021 8:08:00 PM
No, I'm not, actually. Truth be known, I eat what I like. I love peanut butter sandwiches, and I often have a garden salad when I'm too lazy to cook, and that is most of the time the summer. I start cooking in the winter...things like spaghetti and stews and such.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/18/2021 7:48:00 PM
This is so beyond my scope, I have no words. You must be so healthy!
Date: 10/18/2021 2:50:00 PM
I'm surprised you survived at all, Caren!!! Getting all that weight back must have been devastating? / Maurice
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/18/2021 7:48:00 PM
It is just something that has happened.
Date: 10/18/2021 1:54:00 PM
so funny, Caren. but they WOULD notice if you were 900 pounds because society is all about noticing stuff like that. I went a week eating nothing at all in order to get back my original weight when I left Madrid to return to the states. I lost the ten pounds I had gained in that marvelous country . today I highly doubt I could redo that starvation diet. I make it a priority today to eat 7 veggies (or some fruits) daily . Cancer got me to do this. Otherwise, I could be eating my old ways!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/18/2021 7:49:00 PM
Cancer changes people incredibly fast Andrea; I hope it never comes back to you.
Date: 10/18/2021 9:55:00 AM
I feel more or less the same! I do try to get in some veggies and fruits but isn’t life a bit too short to just deny yourself.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/18/2021 10:56:00 AM
I do not like fruits or veggies any more sadly.
Date: 10/18/2021 2:30:00 AM
Being happy in your own skin... What could be more satisfying than that.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/18/2021 6:42:00 AM
I am pretty happy with myself.
Date: 10/17/2021 4:07:00 PM
great ending! i don't blame you one bit - i'd never eat lettuce again either. it's amazing the things we did when we were young to "improve" ourselves. it's great to be older and not give a hoot!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/18/2021 6:43:00 AM
No one should have done that to their body and yet I did. All I did was eat lettuce and drink water for one year; I looked like a starving waif and I thought I looked "good".

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