It’s up! It lives!
With considerable help from Evan of My Journey to Millions, I’ve started a new site: The Half-Off Diet™. I probably should’ve called it The Half-Off Diet Challenge™, because that’s what it’s all about: a challenge to reach a goal simply by cutting the amount of what you regularly eat and drink by 50 percent.
This self-indulgent practice aims to bring us back down to our normal weight without depriving ourselves. The idea is not to do without the things you love to eat. Instead, the theory is that if you eat about half of what you’re accustomed to scarfing down—no matter what those delectables are—you should lose weight.
The ground rules are not very limiting:
• Eat half of your normal servings for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks desserts, and any drinks with calories.
• Try to stick with minimally processed, whole foods, avoiding junk food to the extent possible.
• Prefer fruit juices to soda pop, on the theory that soda provides no nutrition (you’ll need that if you’re going to drop to half-rations!). But if you can’t do without soda, drink half as much as usual.
• Pursue balanced meals: meat, vegetable (including salads), starch. If you’re a veggie, obtain your protein through healthy combinations of appropriate foods. Try to get green, yellow, and red veggies every day.
• Prefer fresh fruits to sugary desserts and snacks. But if you’re going to indulge, eat just half a portion of the sweet goodie.
• Never starve yourself. Eat at least three square meals a day.
What could be simpler?
Each Friday, I’ll remind readers to report their progress, which I’ll post on The Half-Off Challenge page. Then we’ll be able to see how this works.
The site is intended to be a community effort. I hope readers will share recipes, stories of their success (how did you do it? and what challenges did you overcome?), and anecdotes about their dieting adventures. Guest posts are invited!
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Good luck! One book you might want to look at is “Perfect Recipes for Losing Weight” (or something like that) by Pam Anderson (the cookbook writer, not the other one.) She lost 50 pounds with a very sensible plan, which included sweets.
Sounds like fun! Looks like we both launched sites today! 🙂
Well, Sam! Don’t hide your light under a bushel! Hey everybody, check out Sam’s new Yakezie.com. I’ll put a plug up in a post tomorrow a.m. 🙂