The No S Diet

Anyone here have a weekness for sweets like me? I do and oh'boy do I hate it!


This morning, I decided to search for easy ways to try and help vercome this hump and I found the "No S Diet Plan" quite interesting. I plan to start it today and decided to share it with MFP, for all those people with a weakness to sweets like me.
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FYI: Feel free to add me as a friend too, so we can hate on sweets all day long. LOL

AGE: 34
HEGHT: 5'8
CW: 180
GW: 160-155

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The No S Diet, also known as the "Grandma Diet," the "Why Didn't I Think of that Diet," and the "No $ Diet" is a program of systematic moderation.

No funny science or calorie accounting involved, just a few simple and mnemonic tricks for building sustainably "good enough" eating habits.

There are just three rules and one exception:

•No Snacks (But I cant tell a lie, I dont plan to skip my fruit Snacks)
•No Sweets
•No Seconds

Except (sometimes) on days that start with "S"

That's it.

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Apparently, do that and you'll probably lose most if not all of your excess weight. You'll probably start eating better as well as less. And you'll enjoy eating a whole lot more.

How could something this simple possibly work? Precisely because it's simple -- or rather, following the Einsteinian dictum, "as simple as possible, but not simpler." Because it is simple, sustainable, and you aren't really depriving yourself of anything. You don't have to sacrifice anything -- not time, not health, not money, not any delicious thing. No pleasure is denied, just unobtrusively delayed and contained. Served up on the platter of limited opportunity, each pleasure becomes even more enjoyable than it was before. There are no magic potions and there are no poisons. You are targeting just the culprit, just the bad habit of overeating itself.

FYI: The No S Diet is a framework for controlling excess. Beyond that it makes no stipulations about your nutritional or gastronomic choices. That doesn't mean they're not important, they're just separate issues. Fight one enemy at a time, not three at once.


Keep in mind that the first three weeks are the hardest.

At three weeks the auto pilot of habit starts to kick in. Until then, make your portions sufficiently generous so that you aren't tempted to cheat. Once you've made it a few weeks without violating any of the literal rules, then you can start scaling the portions down a bit (though you may find, as I did, that you don't even need any conscious intervention on this score). The most important part is your mind. Once you get that lean and tough, the body will follow.