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The Diet Guy
I have said it before but the reason I think Cambridge works so well for so many of us is that it has that all or nothing approach that so many of us crave.
It is easier to eat nothing than eat a little in the minds of a lot of us as you can get your head round it, I definitely had an all mentality before the diet and had no limits so I found that suddenly being able to no eat was actually quite easy as it was a black and white, yes or no, do or don't that for me was actually the way I am.
Anyway the problem comes when you finish the diet, suddenly you are back into the scary world of "a bit", the sudden panic of "a healthy amount of" and the wild problems of "portion control"
So I decided then that I would still have the all or nothing approach to food that I had before and during the diet, so although I now eat totally normally I still have golden rules that I never break.
They are
1. Drink 2 litres of water every day.
2. Don't eat anything in the office unless it is my packed lunch (a big one for me as I used to pick all the time as we always have food in the office!)
3. Never eat past 8pm.
4. Never eat a "snack" over 200 calories.
5. Eat fruit every day!
6. Always have breakfast!
7. Always have lunch!
8. Always have dinner!
9. Don't ever have a pork pie again (I wouldn't be able to stop).
etc etc etc
That way you kind of make it a way of life to eat healthy and drink water and generally get on with your life as opposed to get too hung up on how much fat there is in a ryvita!
Anyway just my way of staying slim and it works for me.
Mike
It is easier to eat nothing than eat a little in the minds of a lot of us as you can get your head round it, I definitely had an all mentality before the diet and had no limits so I found that suddenly being able to no eat was actually quite easy as it was a black and white, yes or no, do or don't that for me was actually the way I am.
Anyway the problem comes when you finish the diet, suddenly you are back into the scary world of "a bit", the sudden panic of "a healthy amount of" and the wild problems of "portion control"
So I decided then that I would still have the all or nothing approach to food that I had before and during the diet, so although I now eat totally normally I still have golden rules that I never break.
They are
1. Drink 2 litres of water every day.
2. Don't eat anything in the office unless it is my packed lunch (a big one for me as I used to pick all the time as we always have food in the office!)
3. Never eat past 8pm.
4. Never eat a "snack" over 200 calories.
5. Eat fruit every day!
6. Always have breakfast!
7. Always have lunch!
8. Always have dinner!
9. Don't ever have a pork pie again (I wouldn't be able to stop).
etc etc etc
That way you kind of make it a way of life to eat healthy and drink water and generally get on with your life as opposed to get too hung up on how much fat there is in a ryvita!
Anyway just my way of staying slim and it works for me.
Mike