It's very bizarre. According to an article in today's New York Daily News, actress Ginnifer Goodwin claims that because of Weight Watchers, she's "never had to diet."
Er, hello? Now if I'm not sorely mistaken, Weight Watchers IS a diet. How is that no one ever mentioned this very well-publicised fact to Ms Goodwin? She told PEOPLE "I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers." Which, apparently, she's been doing since she was nine years old.
So, because she's been on a diet for 23 years, she's never had to diet. That doesn't make sense.
I appreciate that Goodwin has avoided the very unhealthy pattern of yo-yo dieting by maintaining her weight through an eating programme, and I imagine that since she started so young (which is controversial in itself), this maybe has allowed her to set up a lifetime habit of control that she is able to stick with. But it doesn't change the fact that she is following a diet.
So please Ginnifer, don't tell people otherwise. You may be in a perpetual 'maintainance phase', but you are on a diet.
I'm Andrea, and am obsessed with creating fabulous food. After I managed to ditch dieting, the reason Chocolate and Beyond was born, it seemed natural to evolve my site into a foodie blog. More so since I also ditched animal produce to be vegan. Now, I love showing how inventive cruelty-free cooking can be. And sometimes I like to rant, too. I wouldn't be myself otherwise :) x 
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