Yesterday was International No Diet Day, a day where you are encouraged to question the sensibility of getting by on shakes and meal replacements, starvation or carb-deprivation, and just learn to love yourself, if only just a little bit. Assuming that people did ditch their calorie-counting, what does May 7th become? Just as there's no 24-hour smoking cessation program, can you really revert back to the natural instinctual eating of childhood in just one day? Or do you freak out about that defiant muffin, the glorious and guilt-free chicken fried steak you ate yesterday? Do you step up the Stairmaster, maybe cut even more calories to make up for it? Do you go back to fake food? Do you (*shudder*) start looking up the recipe for Master Cleanse? I hope not.

If anything, International No Diet Day should be a much needed wake-up call. On average, the price per pound lost through the diet industry is staggering. How many women do you know who have been on a diet for the last 15 years and are still trying to lose the same 20 pounds? I love that International No Diet Day exists but I beg of you, don't let May 7th become an insane bounce back trying to recover from one day's escape from body hatred.

The comments want to know how long you've been on a diet.