I agree about the usage of “diet”. Generally it’s to be something restrictive for a specific thing, as if you’re only on a diet when you’re too fat or something, and that otherwise, you’re not on a diet. In that respect, it sounds like not being on a diet is optimum as if eating whatever you want is the ideal (yet it acknowledges at the same time that you can’t keep that up forever without having to diet again). There’s a different usage there… one is a noun, your diet, as in the things that you eat, and the other is a verb, to diet, meaning to restrict certain foods or eat specific foods in order to bring about a certain effect.

Well, currently I’m just generally eating things like muesli or porriage with soya milk for breakfast and some red bush tea mostly (I have to say that breakfast is my most habitual mealtime, I tend to have the same most of the time, I enjoy it that way). Then lunch and dinner tend to be things like stir fry vegetables and brown rice, or salad and chips, smoken salmon sandwiches sometimes, occasional meat for a kind of roast dinner (potatoes and steamed veg), and then fruits or plain potato crisps or a brown roll with some margerine on for a snack if I’m hungry, maybe some nuts or seeds at times. Red lentils now and then, tofu or mostly various beansprouts in the stir fry. Generally just drink water, though sometimes other teas or maybe pure apple or orange juice, sometimes blend up some cooked vegetables and lentils into a soup, or blend some fruits and soya milk into a smoothie.
That may not sound very varied, but when you consider the different types of fruits, vegetables and salads I have it’s far from having the same meals over and over again. I tend to have 4 or 5 different things in a salad, and a similar number of things in a stir fry, so there’s a big scope for various nutrients there. That’s about as specific as I can be, obviously that changes over time depending on what I feel like eating or cooking or preparing, or if I’m eating out somewhere. What I’ve said there is just “the things I generally like to eat”.. I’m not all that specific in terms of a plan. We get a lot of fresh organic produce delivered to us from a farm in Devon (Riverford Vegetables), which is mostly seasonal, and so tends to be varied as well.

So yeah, that’s the main diet there (but don’t let that make you think I don’t eat the occasional cake or icecream or bit of chocolate, I just haven’t done over the last few days)

But indeed, you describe some very familiar processes. Wanting something to drink, and stopping by the fridge on eh way to the faucet, considering that coke can.

The word of “diet” is a curious one, for it’s meaning has changed so much for us! Nowadays, it’s what I personally feel is a very American concept. You gorge on fatty things, and then you simply remove it all by eating differently for a week or two, and you’re thin again! The older word was far better, and fits your method much better: A consistent system of food intake. Simply organising what you eat for all your time, not denying yourself, but not gorging yourself.

Simply thinking about what you’re doing!

As always my friend, you’re an odd one, which is why you always come with these interesting experiences! This post has made me interested though, what exactly IS your current diet?