It’s December, and the parade of food has begun. The cookies, candies, parties, and special meals won’t let up until you’ve shoveled black-eyed peas into your mouth on New Years Day. Figure in Thanksgiving, and you have six straight weeks of assorted feasting. Nobody can really blame you for putting on a few pounds over the holidays, can they?
This fellow came up with a novel diet plan: he only eats when he is hungry. That means not eating because “Gosh, that looks good” or “Everybody else is” or “It’s on my plate” or “It will just go to waste if I don’t” or “It’s lunchtime” or “It’s traditional” or even (particularly) “I’m depressed/stressed/tired/bored.”
He lost 50 pounds that way, and kept it off. His buddy tried it, lost 35 pounds, and seems to be keeping it off. They eat whatever strikes them, without counting calories or fat grams or carbohydrate grams, and stop when they are full. There are no forbidden foods. They do eat their vegetables.
Sounds worth a try, doesn’t it?
If you don’t like that idea, there’s the No S Diet. Here’s a fellow who decided to say NO to Sweets, Snacks, and Seconds except Sometimes on Special days. I like the fact that he admits up front that you can’t lose weight by eating a lot of sugar. I like even more that he addresses (like the first fellow) that our overriding diet problem as Americans is we just eat too darn much. And I really like the fact that it allows for a treat on the weekends or a piece of cake on your birthday. His approach to diet is very honest, and it’s worth a read no matter what your dietary paradigm. It’s hard to argue with his results.
In closing, the housing bubble may deflate slowly as Americans Just Say No to overpriced real estate markets, the GOP says they want to start a secret biological research and defense agency, but it sounds more like a biological warfare facility to me, more states start to say “No, thanks!” to Federal education dollars, how to reduce your chances of being hacked, and finally by way of follow up, I told you months ago that DINOs like Joe Lieberman should expect to have their Congressional seats challenged.