The No S diet

Have you ever heard of it, the website says

"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 I invented for myself that I imagine might work for similarly minded people.

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
No Sweets
No Seconds"

Have you ever heard of it, the website says

"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 I invented for myself that I imagine might work for similarly minded people.

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
No Sweets
No Seconds"

I think the "food environment" has changed since the days of our grand mothers and great grand mothers. Whereas they used to cook with lard, and not crisco. They used butter, not margarine. Coca cola servings were tiny in comparison to our "big gulp" sizes, and were occasional treats as opposed to every day or every meal. Egg omelettes used to contained the yolks, and not the bland, pale white egg omelettes of today. Homemade bread with a slather of butter and homemade preserves were eaten, instead of cosmetically engineered pop tarts. Pieces of chicken actually looked like pieces of chicken, while today you can nuke processed chicken pieces that are formed in the shape of rockets and dinosaurs. Fruit was consumed as it came off the tree it was picked from, and not a strip of colourful sweet leather devoid of the original fiber and nutrient content. Bacon came from pigs, and not turkeys. Meatballs were made from fatty ground meat, and not GMO soy tofu. And beef used to come from cows that ate lots of grass, and not pumped up with hormones and stuffed with GMO grain feed. Snout to tail eating was more common, as opposed to the nothing but chicken breast eating of today. And cheese was made from whole milk, as opposed to the rubbery disgusting fat free cheese of today.

I have made the choice to eat whole foods, limit the processed crap, not fear the fat content in foods, and limit the type of foods that increase my food cravings. As a result, I naturally eat less (no seconds), I don't need to snack, and I don't need the sweets, as I am satiated with the right foods.

So I can eat 5,000 calories a day and still lose weight as long as it is savory foods, during a proper meal time and I have a really big plate. Sounds legit.

This. The whole idea is inherently flawed.

Eh, I don't eat sweets, and I typically don't snack, and I NEVER have seconds and I got fat.

Some people thrive on the obsessive nature of calculating calories, nutrients, points, etc. And frankly, it's hard to break away from that. But some people are ready for a sane, humane way of eating that let's them eat delightful foods but not too much.

For gimmicky mnemonics, I am enjoying thinking about the Pros. A bit more Protein, a bit more Produce, a bit less Processed foods.

So, If I eat an entire large pizza to myself, that passes every test right?

Nope.

I did this diet for a while after a friend of mine lost 60 lbs on it (oh, and she kept it off). Most of the people on the forums there who've been successful have kept the weight off long term.

The rules are slightly more complex than what the description leads you to believe. Not incredibly so, you can figure them out by reading for 10 minutes on the website. And its all free info, he doesn't make any money off of it. The diet website is not his source of income.

Anywho, it's no seconds, snacks, or sweets except sometimes on days that begin with s.

Basically, three meals a day M-F, then you can indulge a little on weekends (he sums up weekend eating by have some treats, but "don't be an idiot"). The three meals should be one plate of food. So, no, one pizza does not count as a meal unless it's a very small personal sized pizza.

Lots of people have success on it because by following the rules, they've create a small calorie deficit (this diet does not promise to make you lose weight quickly) and can follow it without counting calories forever. That's a very attractive option for many people. It's a diet of moderation.

I tried it for a while. I wasn't able to find the right balance that would make me lose. But for a lot of people on the forums, the trick for losing the weight for them was cutting out their "nightly ice cream" and making it a "weekend ice cream". I don't think that's crazy at all.

I'm on a diet not invented by me that is even simpler than yours it has one it's called the common sense diet it has one simple rule The rule is

Eat less food

HTH

That's pretty much what this diet is too. He targets the "egregious offenders" (whatever it is that you personally overindulge in) and says make it a sometimes food by only eating it on weekends.

Actually, this sounds pretty sensible. Requires one to use common sense.
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Yowsers, PikaKnight, didn't mean to make you mad. I indicated 'a' not 'the.' I'm stepping down from the topic, not fond of the drama. I should have just stuck with the party line that this might work for some, not others (but some people may want to give it a chance).