Like any diet, this one too, requires that the dieter actually wants to
reduce weight. Without self discipline and will power - it just won't work.
The diet is quite simple to begin, and is self regulating after the first few weeks; so if you can stick to it for just a short time, you'll find that you'll never need to worry about your weight again.
Step One:-
Get into the right frame of mind. PROMISE yourself that you WILL start this diet on a given date. Remind yourself daily about the upcoming D-Day [Diet Day]. IMAGINE yourself looking as sleek and slim as you want to be.
Step Two:-
Stop buying food. I mean it. Run down the contents of your larder, fridge, and freezer to zero. If there's nothing in them you can't be tempted to lapse on impulse but must make a concious effort to go out and get something. (More on that later). What's more, you'll naturally start to eat less as you find that the only things left to eat are the ones you don't really fancy.
Step Three:-
Don't even think about starting to cook a meal until you are HUNGRY; not peckish, or fancy a nibble, or just because it's the 'proper' time of day to eat; but really HUNGRY.
Step Four:-
Now that you can honestly say that you are hungry, write out a shopping list for _one_ meal ONLY.!! Make sure that it's a meal that will require preparation time and cooking time - not just something that is ready prepared and just needs heating.
Step Five:-
Go shopping. While you are there, buy four/six cans or bottles of a GOOD beer. One with hops and stuff in it, not those chemical atrocities that are so freely available. AND LAY OFF THOSE SWEETIES AT THE CHECKOUT. Put them back, go on, I'm watching!
Step Six:-
Put all the food in the larder, fridge etc. Now take a look at all the dishes you used for your last meal that you should have left unwashed ON PURPOSE that are mouldering away in the sink!
Step Seven:-
Decide that before you start the washing up, and then prepare the food, and have to wait for it to cook; that you'll drink that beer that you bought FIRST. Just to get you in the right frame of mind for tackling the chore.
Step Eight:-
Go to bed after the beer, because you'll have decided that it just ain't worth the effort - and sleep it off.
Step Nine:-
Don't eat breakfast. You probably won't feel like it anyway after four cans of good beer on an empty stomache the night before. Don't take any aspirins either; that way you won't feel like having any lunch.
Step Ten:-
If you have to have lunch; confine yourself to yukky sandwiches from that shop round the corner - not a three course meal in your favourite pub/cafe.
Step Eleven:-
GOTO STEP 3
Special Note:-
Weekends, are often more difficult to cope with. A good tip is to buy extra beer on your way home from work on Friday. Drink as much as you like AS LONG AS YOU DO IT BEFORE shopping for food.
That way, you'll also have the additional problem of having to WALK to the shops - because you should be in no fit condition to drive. As soon as you get up on Saturday, drink any beer you've got left over from the night before. Sleep it off. Get more beer, and repeat the above till the weekend is over.
Side Effects:-
You may notice that your consumption of beer rises during the first couple of months. Don't worry about it, it will settle down again after that and become a simple matter of keeping yourself 'topped up'. Slight feelings of sickness, irritabilty, and general lethergy have been exhibited (in the early stages) by some converts to this diet. These too will dwindle as time goes by . . .
Some DONTS:-
Don't give up coffee, cigarettes, or cream cakes; this would almost certainly lead to general debilitation, and set you back on the path to eating solids again. At parties, either drink or eat, but DONT do BOTH! Don't tell everyone about this diet - because if you do, there won't be any fat bastards left to do all the work that you "don't really feel like doing just at the moment" Don't take medication while on this diet, drugs are ok but medicines tend not be very effective. Just remember to promise yourself to get back on the diet as soon as you are well again.
Full details of this diet, including a good beer guide, easy-view weight chart, combined can and bottle opener, special sick bucket(with patented quick release airtight lid), and on line counseling, are available [for the modest sum of 10UKP per week] from :- --
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