The Lazy Person’s Two Step Diet (Easy)!
Posted: Thursday, July 08, 2010
by e
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Who has time to count calories? Or shop for exotic, low calorie, super foods, (acai berries?) or sign up for all the latest fad diets? I certainly know that I don't.
I remember times in my life when dieting was not a problem. Playing football and burning up three or four thousand calories a day made weight control easy. As a matter of fact, I had to conscientiously try to gain weight! (Tons of Big Macs and milkshakes).
These episodes required no particular effort on my part to lose weight. Weight loss happened automatically and relatively painlessly. So why should anyone have to put up with rigorous discipline and asceticism when trying to lose a few pounds? Why not just do it naturally without even having to think about, play with, measure or weigh, or obsess about food? If that sounds good to you, here are the two simple steps to the Lazy Persons Diet:
Step 1. Determine to eat one big meal a day at or before noon. You can cook in the evening, put it all in the fridge and take it to work the next day.
Breakfast should be a quick bite of some fruit and maybe a cup of coffee or green tea. That's it.
Dinner should be the lightest meal, maybe some fruit juice (watered down 10 parts water to one part juice - fruit juice is very high in calories!), a handful of nuts or sunflower seeds, and coffee or green tea.
No eating between meals, no snacking. Drink coffee, tea (without cream or sugar - use stevia), or watered down fruit juice. Snacking is a psychological problem connected to boredom and depression.
Step 2. Eat whatever and as much as you want for lunch, but always begin with your fruit first, then desert (go easy on desert!), followed by salad leaving the main course for last. This effectively dulls the appetite and encourages leftovers. As soon as you feel the least bit full, close the lunchbox and take the leftovers home. They will provide better use in the garbage disposer than in your stomach. In time, you will learn how much to pack and not waste food.
Three things are important about these two steps: one is that eating in the evening is not healthy for many reasons the least of which is stroking the psychological dependency on food which raises its ugly head most vociferously in the evenings in front of the big screen! Have you cut a little path in the carpet from the TV to the fridge! Stop it! Stop your psychological dependency on food right now. If not now, when?
Another important thing is that food consumed after noon contains twice as many calories as the same food consumed before noon, it's a scientific miracle - or at least it seems that way considering the weight we pack on when we eat in the afternoons and evenings.
And the third important thing is that fruit inhibits cancer but only if it is eaten on an empty stomach. Fruit or fruit juice in the morning on an empty stomach, fruit-first at lunch on an empty stomach, and fruit or fruit juice in the evenings on an empty stomach - thats key.
And if you are concerned about starving to death on one meal a day, keep in mind that Buddhist monks regularly fast for up to 30 days at a time with no food other than a little fruit juice and water and survive quite well, some living healthily into their hundreds (the skinny ones last the longest). After about the third day of a fast, feelings of hunger disappear. The advantage of fasting to a Buddhist monk is that the mind become extraordinarily calm and focused, and meditation progresses rapidly. The advantages of your fasting is that you will lose weight because according to laws of physics, you cant help but lose weight!
So this is your new bumper sticker. Cut it out and paste it on your fridge.
Escape From the Tyranny of Food: ONE MEAL - FRUIT FIRST.
(Always check with your health care practitioner before beginning any kind of diet).
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Top-level comments on this article: (8 total)I am a little over weight I'll probably try dieting soon."Get skinny - live long!" I think Spok said that once in a Star Trek episode. Maybe not.
Whatever works, E.! This makes a refreshing change from all the obsessions about how not to be obsessed!Most diets are so enmeshed with food that food is all a dieter thinks of. He or she might lose a few pounds but they will be put back on post haste. This diet can turn into a very healthy lifestyle if one can get accustomed to it. Thanks Jennifer.I was watching somebody being interviewed about dieting and I thought, the problem is they're focusing on the food. If they focused on what they really need, the food problem would disappear.So true Jennifer. Lots of psychological problems built in around food - obsession, dependency, boredom, lack of discipline, loneliness, etc.
Judged by my diet I now know that I am lazySounds like your diet is pretty good, Mike!
Great! Now I'm hungry. Resist, resist! Oh well, guess I got to die from something, excuse me while I go make a sandwich. lolHah! Yep, that's how it works. 5 minutes of pleasure and 23 hours, 55 minutes of remorse. (What kind of sandwich?)
That was a good article E-- snacking is a psychological problem connected to my illusionary love for ice cream LOL- Always- EllaAhh, the wonderful reality of Butter Pecan in a waffle cone! Thanks Ella.
Thanks for the weight-loss advice Ray, it makes perfect sense. Now, do you have a solution for my SearchWarp addiction?Thank you Brianna. I began a reply for your question but it became so involved I decided to post it. It's called "What's Your Favorite Addiction?" and is now available for reading.In summary, I would say that SearchWarp can either be an addiction, or a great source of information for going deeper, depending upon how you use it.
Very interesting way to lose weight. As I get older, the harder it is to lose and keep the weight off. Right on about the snacksHah! We slow down but our appetites don't! Happens to athletes when they stop competing as well. It pays to get skinny, however. Less trouble for all the joints and organs.
I really liked your article.Thank you so much Kaneta, for reading as well as commenting.Metta.....e
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