Dieting

I'm extremely proud of myself. I've been on a low-carb diet for 5 days. I try to go on this diet a lot but I never stick with it for more than 1.5 days. My mood was excellent yesterday and the day before. It's a not a noticeable mood. I'm a very quiet person so I don't show when I'm in a good mood. While I am an extraverted feeler, it never really shows the way it does in most people. My mood dropped last night. It may be because my glucose levels are super low. The only carbs I've had are from fruits and veggies. I also had crust off chicken pot pie yesterday, but only because I had worked out before. My work out was amazing. This diet gives so much energy. Even though I don't have the heightened mood, I can still feel the diet's effects. When I'm eating normally, the carbs give me security. On this diet, it's like I can see the world about 10x clearer. My cognition is incredible.
This is diet is the reason I went vegetarian. I became vegetarian in March 2008. I then became lacto-vegetarian March 2010, vegan April 2010, back to vegetarian January 2011, pescetarian April 2011, and starting this October, I starting eating chicken. I still don't eat red meat. I went vegetarian to have a name for myself. I wanted to be different. In middle school, it wasn't enough to just like a band no one else liked; in my mind, I had to do something radically different, go vegetarian. At the same time, I did care about animal cruelty. I still do. At the time, I thought it was common sense to go vegetarian. Even still, I have a hard time knowing that I eat chicken and fish. It's cruel. But sadly, I care more about being lean than eating animals. I don't eat beef because it's actually bad for your health. So is smoking cigarettes, but I already am beef-free so it'll be easier to stay that way. I eat chicken because it is so much cheaper than fish. Ideally, I'd love to be a pescetarian. Maybe once I do my own grocery shopping. I'll reassess my diet.   Right now, there are only certain food I will eat lean poultry, non-white fish, fruit, veggies, legumes, beans, and quinoa. Everything else is poison. I'll eat white fish because it's still nutritious I just hate the taste. On this diet, I'm only eating the foods I mentioned. I never drink sugar drinks. I'm always on a carb spectrum. Sugar drinks bring me to the high carb spectrum, which is suicide. They make me unhappy and fat. The only good thing is that they taste good. However, my "safe-foods" are also tasty. It's unfortunate that there is no fast food place where you can just order straight up whole food, like a cup of carrots or something.
I also thought going vegetarian would help me lose weight. It actually made me fatter, in a way. Before going vegetarian, I ate a lot of everything. A lot of protein, a lot of fat, but a monstrous amount of carbs. It's not meat that makes people fat, it's the potato chips, fries, coke, etc. I also believe that diet drinks make people fat. I don't drink anything with aspartame because it makes me rage, but I can drink Sucralose. I love the blue Monster energy drinks. Vegetarians see the obese Americans and think it's from the meat they eat. Part of it is that they don't eat lean meat. They'll have breaded chicken fingers. Vegetarians may think bacon wrapped scallops are also unhealthy, which they are. However, bacon is better than a cookie. They're both wicked high in saturated fat but the cookie has sugar while the bacon has protein.
I actually did lose a huge amount of weight going vegan. As a vegetarians, I became a carbomaniac. Now I'm a carbophobic. Since my mood is so good when I don't have carbs, I wonder if my depression in 9th grade may have been cause or been worsened by eating so many carbs.
If you're reading this and want to lose weight. It's not enough to just eat small portions and excersize, you have to also watch what you're eating. You can lose so much more weigh by smart dieting alone then passive dieting and excersize. If you're an N personality like me, this is my suggestion. For S personalities, they like moderation and small steps better so they'll probably do better passive dieting and excerisize.