"I'm on a diet." You can almost hear the smug vindication or the remorse for impending deprivation, pick your poison. Our culture has loaded that word with all the emotion in the world.

We often struggle with using the word "diet" on Elastic Waist, because really, you might not be on a diet. Some of us aren't on diets. Some of us just want to follow any regime that allows us to stuff our piehole with bacon (we're not naming names, however). But we also want to bring you healthy yummy stuff without judgment nor prescription, which is why we love Sneaky Kitty's recommendation of the term "Happy Eating". It's not a diet. It's something you're doing to make your body happy. Whether your goal is to lose weight or gain it or stay exactly the same but superloaded with vitamins and minerals.

So today's Random Goodness is that you ditch the word "diet" from your mental vocabulary. No more diets! Not now, not ever! Happy eating and happy bellies, no matter what shape they are!