The Lazy Person’s Two Step Diet (Easy)!

Who has time to count calories? Or shop for exotic, low calorie, super foods, (acai berries?) or sign up for all the latest fad diets? I certainly know that I don't.

I remember times in my life when dieting was not a problem. Playing football and burning up three or four thousand calories a day made weight control easy. As a matter of fact, I had to conscientiously try to gain weight! (Tons of Big Macs and milkshakes).

As a Buddhist monk in Thailand, my food intake consisted of one meal a day at 9:00 am all mixed together in one bowl. I got down to my optimum weight in no time.

These episodes required no particular effort on my part to lose weight. Weight loss happened automatically and relatively painlessly. So why should anyone have to put up with rigorous discipline and asceticism when trying to lose a few pounds? Why not just do it naturally without even having to think about, play with it, measure or weigh it, or obsess about food? If that sounds good to you, here are the two simple steps to the Lazy Persons Diet:

Step 1. Determine to eat one big meal a day at or before noon. You can cook in the evening, put it all in the fridge, or in a lunch pail or plastic baggies and take it to work the next day.

Breakfast should be a quick bite of some fruit and maybe a cup of coffee or green tea. That's it.

Dinner should be the lightest meal, maybe some fruit juice, a handful of nuts or sunflower seeds, and coffee or green tea.

No eating between meals, no snacking. Drink coffee, tea (without cream or sugar - use stevia), or watered down (10 to 1) fruit juice. Snacking is a psychological problem connected to boredom and depression.

Step 2. Eat whatever and as much as you want for lunch, but always begin with your fruit first, then desert (go easy on desert!), followed by salad leaving the main course for last. This effectively dulls the appetite and encourages leftovers. As soon as you feel the least bit full, close the lunchbox and take the leftovers home. They will provide better use in the garbage disposer than in your stomach. In time, you will learn how much to pack and not waste food.

Three things are important about these two steps: one is that eating in the evening is not healthy for many reasons the least of which is stroking the psychological dependency on food which raises its ugly head most vociferously in the evenings in front of the big screen! Have you cut a little path in the carpet from the TV to the fridge! Stop it! Stop your psychological dependency on food right now. If not now, when?

Another important thing is that food consumed after noon contains twice as many calories as the same food consumed before noon, it's a scientific miracle - or at least it seems that way considering the weight we pack on when we eat in the afternoons and evenings.

And the third important thing is that fruit inhibits cancer but only if it is eaten on an empty stomach. Fruit or fruit juice in the morning on an empty stomach, fruit-first at lunch on an empty stomach, and fruit or fruit juice in the evenings on an empty stomach - that‘s key.

And if you are concerned about starving to death on one meal a day, keep in mind that Buddhist monks regularly fast for up to 30 days at a time with no meals other than a little fruit juice and water and survive quite well, some living healthily into their hundreds (the skinny ones last the longest). After about the third day of a fast, feelings of hunger disappear. The advantage of fasting to a Buddhist monk is that the mind become extraordinarily calm and focused, and meditation progresses rapidly. The advantages of your fasting is that you will lose weight because according to laws of physics, you can‘t help but lose weight!

So this is your new bumper sticker. Cut it out and paste it on your fridge.

Escape From the Tyranny of Food: ONE MEAL - FRUIT FIRST.

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