The Skinny Rules
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RULE 1: Drink a Large Glass of Water before Every Meal – No Excuses!
I drink water heavily throughout the day, so I guess this counts as "before" every meal.
RULE 2: Don’t Drink Your Calories
Exception: Coffee creamer, but that's carefully measured/logged.
RULE 3: Eat Protein Every Meal – or Stay Hungry and Grouchy
I try to, as often as I am able. Chicken is my friend.
RULE 4: Slash Your Intake of Refined Flours and Grains
I have, dramatically. The only grains I get any more are oatmeal, brown rice and the occasional tortilla. Oh! And quinoa.
RULE 5: Eat 30 to 50 Grams of Fiber a Day
Check.
RULE 6: Eat Apples and Berries Every Single Day – Every Single Day!
Love apples, dislike berries. I have an apple probably 3-4 times a week.
RULE 7: No Carbs after Lunch
I disagree with this, but my carb intake is already fairly low. As long as it fits in to my macros, it's in.
RULE 8: Learn to Read Food Labels So You Know What You Are Eating
It took me a long time to be good at this.
RULE 9: Step Guessing About Portion Size and Get It Right – for Good!
Measuring cups/spoons are my friends!
RULE 10: No More Added Sweeteners, Including Artificial Ones
Nope. Will not do.
RULES 11: Get Rid of Those White Potatoes
I haven't had potatoes -forever-. I love them D=
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
Usually.
RULE 13: Get Rid of Fast Foods and Fried Foods
No fast, no fried in over a month.
RULE 14: Eat a Real Breakfast
Every day!
RULE 15: Make Your Own Food and Eat at Least Ten Meals a Week at Home
I make all of my own food. Breakfast lunch and dinner.
RULE 16: Banish High-Salt Foods
I avoid high-sodium as much as I can. Working on cooking with spices instead of salt.
RULE 17: Eat Your Vegetables – Just Do It!
With pleasure!
RULE 18: Go to Bed Hungry
I can't. I have terrible dreams about eating everything.
RULE 19: Sleep Right
7-9 hours most nights.
RULE 20: Plan One Splurge Meal a Week
Eh...I'm not sold on this one. I'll splurge on an item, but I won't go more than 200 over my cals for the day.0 -
RULE 2: Never drink Your Calories
I read this book a few years ago and found a good smoothie recipe in it. I never caught onto this contradiction until now.
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Ok... water sprayed all over my monitor! :laugh:
*looks for paper towels and then goes to refill her water bottle*
:drinker: oops. I drank calories 'gin0 -
I'm confused. Rule 7 & 12 contradict each other. If I had a "meatless" day, what may I for dinner that has zero carbs and is meatless?
Eggs or fish would be my guess.
Fish is meat...Eggs have 1g carb per egg. Boo, it's a contradiction that was clearly missed by the author. Unless they use the "net carb" magic (not that it's bad, people do have a legitimate use for that, I think?).0 -
Found the rules posted online:
RULE 1: Drink a Large Glass of Water before Every Meal – No Excuses!
RULE 2: Don’t Drink Your Calories
RULE 3: Eat Protein Every Meal – or Stay Hungry and Grouchy
RULE 4: Slash Your Intake of Refined Flours and Grains
RULE 5: Eat 30 to 50 Grams of Fiber a Day
RULE 6: Eat Apples and Berries Every Single Day – Every Single Day!
RULE 7: No Carbs after Lunch
RULE 8: Learn to Read Food Labels So You Know What You Are Eating
RULE 9: Step Guessing About Portion Size and Get It Right – for Good!
RULE 10: No More Added Sweeteners, Including Artificial Ones
RULES 11: Get Rid of Those White Potatoes
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
RULE 13: Get Rid of Fast Foods and Fried Foods
RULE 14: Eat a Real Breakfast
RULE 15: Make Your Own Food and Eat at Least Ten Meals a Week at Home
RULE 16: Banish High-Salt Foods
RULE 17: Eat Your Vegetables – Just Do It!
RULE 18: Go to Bed Hungry
RULE 19: Sleep Right
RULE 20: Plan One Splurge Meal a Week
Disagree with no carbs after lunch (my lunch is carb-less). Go to bed hungry he means don't eat after dinner? Which is fine. Everything else lines up with what I do.
Way too complicated. I do the exact opposite of quite a few of them and I manage just fine. For one thing I've never gone to bed hungry. And I eat carbs all day long.0 -
RULE 1: Drink a Large Glass of Water before Every Meal – No Excuses!
Never did this but okay.
RULE 2: Never drink Your Calories
Oops, sometimes I do
RULE 3: Eat Protein Every Meal – or Stay Hungry and Grouchy
I typically do but not doing so doesn't affect my mood or typically satiety. .
RULE 4: Slash Your Intake of Refined Flours and Grains
Never...bagel, bagel, bagel
RULE 5: Eat 30 to 50 Grams of Fiber a Day
I'd be pooping furiously. ...
RULE 6: Eat Apples and Berries Every Single Day – Every Single Day!
I would burn out sooo fast. . I eat them sometimes...
RULE 7: No Carbs after Lunch
Lmfao. No. How in the world am I to eat my pint of Talenti at 10pm while I watch Fairy Tail?
RULE 8: Learn to Read Food Labels So You Know What You Are Eating
Cause knowledge is power! Once I learn to read, I can ignore almost every "skinny rule"
RULE 9: Stop Guessing About Portion Size and Get It Right – for Good!
Yes, L2foodscale
RULE 10: No More Added Sweeteners, Including Artificial Ones
Why? Theys calorie freeeeeeeee.
RULES 11: Get Rid of Those White Potatoes
NEVER!
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
BOO. HISS. Make every day bacon day.
RULE 13: Get Rid of Fast Foods and Fried Foods
No. Mcflurry and Mcwraps for life
RULE 14: Eat a Real Breakfast
As opposed to a fake one? Mine Is at 12pm....
RULE 15: Make Your Own Food and Eat at Least Ten Meals a Week at Home
K.
RULE 16: Banish High-Salt Foods
Why? Sodium isn't really problematic unless you have a medical condition. I sweat sometimes..
RULE 17: Eat Your Vegetables – Just Do It!
Okay...
RULE 18: Go to Bed Hungry
FUUUUUU! Nope. Never have, never will
RULE 19: Sleep Right
I Agree... Not hungry
RULE 20: Plan One Splurge Meal a Week
....okay , but if I'm practicing moderation, I don't even need this really. ..
Gave me a good laugh, good reply+++++
Don't understand why people flock to overly-restrictive diets when they can have all the foods they want, just practice moderation.0 -
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
I don't even think I have one meal a day that's meatless . . . . snacks yes, but actual meals almost always have lean meat of some kind in them . . .0 -
too many rules for me...0
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I have the Kindle version, bought it a couple of years ago, and I don't follow any of the "rules", however, I do like to use the omelet, chicken and fish recipes every once in a while.0
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RULE 7: No Carbs after Lunch
RULE 10: No More Added Sweeteners, Including Artificial Ones
RULES 11: Get Rid of Those White Potatoes
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
RULE 13: Get Rid of Fast Foods and Fried Foods
RULE 14: Eat a Real Breakfast
RULE 15: Make Your Own Food and Eat at Least Ten Meals a Week at Home
RULE 16: Banish High-Salt Foods
RULE 18: Go to Bed Hungry
RULE 20: Plan One Splurge Meal a Week
These are ones that i find either complete BS or completely worthless.0 -
RULE 1: Drink a Large Glass of Water before Every Meal – No Excuses!
Never did this but okay.
RULE 2: Never drink Your Calories
Oops, sometimes I do
RULE 3: Eat Protein Every Meal – or Stay Hungry and Grouchy
I typically do but not doing so doesn't affect my mood or typically satiety. .
RULE 4: Slash Your Intake of Refined Flours and Grains
Never...bagel, bagel, bagel
RULE 5: Eat 30 to 50 Grams of Fiber a Day
I'd be pooping furiously. ...
RULE 6: Eat Apples and Berries Every Single Day – Every Single Day!
I would burn out sooo fast. . I eat them sometimes...
RULE 7: No Carbs after Lunch
Lmfao. No. How in the world am I to eat my pint of Talenti at 10pm while I watch Fairy Tail?
RULE 8: Learn to Read Food Labels So You Know What You Are Eating
Cause knowledge is power! Once I learn to read, I can ignore almost every "skinny rule"
RULE 9: Stop Guessing About Portion Size and Get It Right – for Good!
Yes, L2foodscale
RULE 10: No More Added Sweeteners, Including Artificial Ones
Why? Theys calorie freeeeeeeee.
RULES 11: Get Rid of Those White Potatoes
NEVER!
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
BOO. HISS. Make every day bacon day.
RULE 13: Get Rid of Fast Foods and Fried Foods
No. Mcflurry and Mcwraps for life
RULE 14: Eat a Real Breakfast
As opposed to a fake one? Mine Is at 12pm....
RULE 15: Make Your Own Food and Eat at Least Ten Meals a Week at Home
K.
RULE 16: Banish High-Salt Foods
Why? Sodium isn't really problematic unless you have a medical condition. I sweat sometimes..
RULE 17: Eat Your Vegetables – Just Do It!
Okay...
RULE 18: Go to Bed Hungry
FUUUUUU! Nope. Never have, never will
RULE 19: Sleep Right
I Agree... Not hungry
RULE 20: Plan One Splurge Meal a Week
....okay , but if I'm practicing moderation, I don't even need this really. ..
Gave me a good laugh, good reply+++++
Don't understand why people flock to overly-restrictive diets when they can have all the foods they want, just practice moderation.
Because sometimes (and I'm not saying this about the OP, it's just a general statement) it's easier for people to have someone tell them what to do, how to eat, when to eat it and how much of it to eat (and lead them up to the belief that it will happen overnight because they'll sleep off the pounds) than for people to sit down, do the research and educate themselves on how to moderate, portion control, and proper exercise.
Again, just a general statement from my experience.0 -
How about this:
Keep it Simple Rules:
1. Figure out a reasonable calorie deficit
2. Accurately and honestly log your food
3. Find an activity you enjoy that gets you up and moving
4. Have patience
5. Rinse and repeat0 -
How about this:
Keep it Simple Rules:
1. Figure out a reasonable calorie deficit
2. Accurately and honestly log your food
3. Find an activity you enjoy that gets you up and moving
4. Have patience
5. Rinse and repeat
That'll never work. People refuse to accept the simple fact that they eat too much. It's much easier on the psyche to be told you just haven't been eating the RIGHT foods in the RIGHT way because you didn't know any better.0 -
RULE 1: Drink a Large Glass of Water before Every Meal – No Excuses!
Eh...depends on the meal...breakfast and dinner no...lunch eh...
RULE 2: Don’t Drink Your Calories - I will and do
RULE 3: Eat Protein Every Meal – or Stay Hungry and Grouchy - Agreed
RULE 4: Slash Your Intake of Refined Flours and Grains - eh hasn't hurt me
RULE 5: Eat 30 to 50 Grams of Fiber a Day - I don't track it
RULE 6: Eat Apples and Berries Every Single Day – Every Single Day! - eh apples make me hungry
RULE 7: No Carbs after Lunch - I call BS on this one
RULE 8: Learn to Read Food Labels So You Know What You Are Eating - Yes
RULE 9: Step Guessing About Portion Size and Get It Right – for Good! - Yes
RULE 10: No More Added Sweeteners, Including Artificial Ones - psh not a chance
RULES 11: Get Rid of Those White Potatoes - Heck no
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless - no
RULE 13: Get Rid of Fast Foods and Fried Foods - I don't think so
RULE 14: Eat a Real Breakfast - eh I do but that is a choice
RULE 15: Make Your Own Food and Eat at Least Ten Meals a Week at Home - eh
RULE 16: Banish High-Salt Foods - psh
RULE 17: Eat Your Vegetables – Just Do It! - sure
RULE 18: Go to Bed Hungry - NEVER
RULE 19: Sleep Right - if you can control it sure
RULE 20: Plan One Splurge Meal a Week - Psh...
so basically for me I agree eat veggies and protien, get sleep, weight and measure portions, and read food labels...all the other stuff will not make you skinny...or slim or lose weight.
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I am glad I'm a breaker of rules0
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RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
I'm not really against this one.
Huge cheese ommellete for breakfast, with hashbrowns and coffee.
Grilled peanut butter and banana sammich with an apple for lunch. Oh, and a Diet Coke.
Snickers bar and a yohoo for a mid afternoon pick-me-up.
Enormous bowl of mac&cheese with a garden salad for dinner.
There, no meat. I'm a vegetarian!0 -
I just read Bob Harper's Skinny Rules and loved it. I'm just starting working on my health and exercise (day 4 woooot) and I really love most of his advice. I'm just curious if anyone has had success using the rules or the recipes?
Rules are made to be broken. Especially bad ones.0 -
RULE 2: Never drink Your Calories
Oops, sometimes I do
RULE 4: Slash Your Intake of Refined Flours and Grains
Never...bagel, bagel, bagel
RULE 7: No Carbs after Lunch
Lmfao. No. How in the world am I to eat my pint of Talenti at 10pm while I watch Fairy Tail?
RULE 8: Learn to Read Food Labels So You Know What You Are Eating
Cause knowledge is power! Once I learn to read, I can ignore almost every "skinny rule"
RULE 9: Stop Guessing About Portion Size and Get It Right – for Good!
Yes, L2foodscale
RULE 10: No More Added Sweeteners, Including Artificial Ones
Why? Theys calorie freeeeeeeee.
RULES 11: Get Rid of Those White Potatoes
NEVER!
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
BOO. HISS. Make every day bacon day.
RULE 13: Get Rid of Fast Foods and Fried Foods
No. Mcflurry and Mcwraps for life
RULE 14: Eat a Real Breakfast
As opposed to a fake one? Mine Is at 12pm....
RULE 18: Go to Bed Hungry
FUUUUUU! Nope. Never have, never will
RULE 20: Plan One Splurge Meal a Week
....okay , but if I'm practicing moderation, I don't even need this really. ..
You. I like you. :drinker: Although I'll probably eat my Talenti at 11pm while rewatching Attack on Titan.
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Fish is animal, is flesh, is meat.I'm confused. Rule 7 & 12 contradict each other. If I had a "meatless" day, what may I for dinner that has zero carbs and is meatless?
Eggs or fish would be my guess.0 -
RULE 12: Make One Day a Week Meatless
I'm not really against this one.
Huge cheese ommellete for breakfast, with hashbrowns and coffee.
Grilled peanut butter and banana sammich with an apple for lunch. Oh, and a Diet Coke.
Snickers bar and a yohoo for a mid afternoon pick-me-up.
Enormous bowl of mac&cheese with a garden salad for dinner.
There, no meat. I'm a vegetarian!
Eggs without bacon?????0
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