I can't remember if it's the 9-inch plate or the 10-inch plate diet. It's basically a catchy way of describing the age-old concept of portion control. Eat whatever you want, as long as it all fits on a 9-inch plate. And don't pile the plate high with food, and don't make the plate an artistic presentation of food. It's a boring concept but it works. My friend C.P. refers to this as the "Eat less food diet."
So, today is my last day to decide what diet I will try for the first 2 weeks of the new year. I will go with a combo of Portion Control + Soup Diet. It's awfully cold these days... and warm cabbage soup sounds pretty good.
I already got a big pot of oxtail soup going in the slow cooker right now! Tomorrow begins the first day of my experiment!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Flavor Point Diet + Imagination Diet
Part of the reason I over eat is because of the PLEASURE that comes from consuming the food. But no matter how much you enjoy a certain food, each bite brings less pleasure than the bite before it. There was research showing that if your meal consisted of the same type of flavors, you would eat less. If I remember correctly, the example was using pineapples in every item on the menu. Example: pineapple fried rice paired with pineapple ham and then followed with a plate of pineapples.
In fact there are more details of this diet here: http://www.diettv.com/diets/flavor-point-diet#diet_description
Recently there was also research that proved that you will eat less out of that box of chocolates if you spend some time visualizing yourself eating and enjoying the chocolate. I guess the idea is to dull your desire for that particular food item.
I would like to try this diet, but it seems a bit slow. I need a crash diet to kind of encourage me to start on this journey. I need some ideas on what kind of 1-week crash diet I can try? I'm still nursing so a 1-week juice fast is definitely out of the question!
In fact there are more details of this diet here: http://www.diettv.com/diets/flavor-point-diet#diet_description
Recently there was also research that proved that you will eat less out of that box of chocolates if you spend some time visualizing yourself eating and enjoying the chocolate. I guess the idea is to dull your desire for that particular food item.
I would like to try this diet, but it seems a bit slow. I need a crash diet to kind of encourage me to start on this journey. I need some ideas on what kind of 1-week crash diet I can try? I'm still nursing so a 1-week juice fast is definitely out of the question!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
New Year New Me!
So it's almost the end of the year. This year has been a year of life changes.
On May 27th, my daughter Aria was born. I had hoped that breastfeeding and pumping milk like a mad woman would help me lose a lot of weight. But being a working mom of a newborn is more difficult that I thought it would be. I rarely have any extra time (or energy) during the week to plan and prepare a healthy meal. In fact a few weeks ago, I chopped up some cabbage, threw it into the microwave and called it dinner. No meat, no carbs, no fat. Just plain, microwaved cabbage.
Recently I have come across quite a few new articles about WEIRD diets. A seller of potatoes recently went on an all potato diet to prove that eating only carbs can be healthy for you! Another man, a professor, went on a ho-ho, ding-dong and twinkie diet. And guess what? Both men lost weight! In fact the professor ended up with lower cholesterol than when he started!
As I thought about the type of discipline it takes to maintain any diet, I realized that was the key! I just need DISCIPLINE and a PLAN! But once the novelty of my new diet wears off, I always veer off trail and into the wilderness of unrestrained eating. And in this age of multi-culturalism it seems mind-boggling to create a diet that can be so diverse and yet slimming on my waist line.
So here's my plan... I will follow a different diet every few weeks and chronicle what happens. The guidelines of the diet is that it must be affordable and not be based upon processed or pre-manufactured food. I will do my best to chronicle how much money I spend as well as the effect on my waist line. This blog has the potential to be very very embarrassing to me.
On May 27th, my daughter Aria was born. I had hoped that breastfeeding and pumping milk like a mad woman would help me lose a lot of weight. But being a working mom of a newborn is more difficult that I thought it would be. I rarely have any extra time (or energy) during the week to plan and prepare a healthy meal. In fact a few weeks ago, I chopped up some cabbage, threw it into the microwave and called it dinner. No meat, no carbs, no fat. Just plain, microwaved cabbage.
Recently I have come across quite a few new articles about WEIRD diets. A seller of potatoes recently went on an all potato diet to prove that eating only carbs can be healthy for you! Another man, a professor, went on a ho-ho, ding-dong and twinkie diet. And guess what? Both men lost weight! In fact the professor ended up with lower cholesterol than when he started!
As I thought about the type of discipline it takes to maintain any diet, I realized that was the key! I just need DISCIPLINE and a PLAN! But once the novelty of my new diet wears off, I always veer off trail and into the wilderness of unrestrained eating. And in this age of multi-culturalism it seems mind-boggling to create a diet that can be so diverse and yet slimming on my waist line.
So here's my plan... I will follow a different diet every few weeks and chronicle what happens. The guidelines of the diet is that it must be affordable and not be based upon processed or pre-manufactured food. I will do my best to chronicle how much money I spend as well as the effect on my waist line. This blog has the potential to be very very embarrassing to me.
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