The ten day diet plan - The easiest diet ever.

The Ten day diet plan is still working a year and a half later. I have lost a little weight every month and was I never hungry. Yes, I got bored with it several times but not for very long because I wasn't on any particular diet for very long. Basically if the diet isn't easy and fun I quit doing it so I made a point of finding fun things to do for ten days and called it a diet. In its simplest stated form the strategy of the ten day diet is to do some new diet for the first ten days of each new month, then to coast for ten days and try to ignore the whole diet concept for the remainder of the month remaining reasonable of course. If you have a serious weight problem you want to keep within your overall dietary guidelines but the idea is to make that as automatic as possible and just relax into what ever is best for you. I don't want to tell you what to do but here is what seemed to work best for me.
1. Eat low glycemic index foods at every meal and avoid high glycemic index foods totally for ten days. This is as close as I ever came to a really strict diet but it worked. Basically avoid refined white things.
2. Wear a pedometer all the time and get 10,000 steps in every day, this may mean taking an extra walk in the evening.
3. Eating a serving of desert is okay but cut it into several pieces and share it with your friends.
4. No matter how small the desert get up after eating it and go for an extra mile of walking.
5. For breakfast eat a cup of yogurt with two rounded table spoons of mixed nuts and three rounded table spoons of "Fiber One" and fruit juice.
6. Lunch is the biggest meal and the one where I think about variety of what is to be eaten most.
7. The evening meal is eaten as early as possible and nothing is eaten within three hours of bed time.
8. When watching TV or movies never eat or drink anything other than raw vegetables and water. This isn't really eating anyway it is just fidgety stuffing things in your mouth.
There isn't anything unusual about any of this except in the attitude in which it was done. Perhaps one thing that made it easy was that I only did one small dieting change on any particular ten day stretch. That made it easy to do and easy to remember. It was easy to do because simply doing or not doing some unique thing makes it easy to remember and easy to do a good substitution for that particular food.
At one time, in the distant past, I would eat a pastry every day from a particular bakery across the street from my favorite coffee shop. Then I realized that all of the stuff in this particular bakery was laden with palm oil and sugar so it was a simple mental effort to just get my pastry at the coffee shop. The goodies cost more but they were much better quality, being made with butter and so that was sort of a reasonable trade-off. It was a simple change to make and therefore it was easy to develop the new habit. Later I changed from the chocolate rum cake I was practically addicted to, to a biscotti with my coffee and that also was easy to do and definitely a bit healthier. After a while I even went intermittent on the biscotti and started drinking my coffee black instead of with cream. Each of these were really small and easy steps and I only made one step per month and even that was only carefully attended to for the first ten days. These changes were based decisions that were made at the counter before I started eating what ever it was that was selected. Once I am at a table and chatting with my friends I don't really pay much attention to what it is that I'm consuming and as there are no seconds freely available I don't generally eat any more. So what I get at the counter is all that I eat. Once a month or so I still get one of those chocolate cakes but only when there are at least three other people at my table so I can split it four ways. It's enough and we all actually enjoy the much smaller portions more and we eat them guilt free.
I am not even sure any of this can legitimately be called a diet, at least not in the usual painful sense that most people usually think of when they think of diets. On the other hand I have gone from 196 pounds to 171 pounds in 18 months and at present am considering just sort of gliding on down to 165 pounds, my college senior weight, and staying there permanently. My current situation is just fine but perhaps a little lower would be just a bit finer.
This is the simpelest and easiest diet I can imagine. The only mental effort is on the first of every month for a few seconds trying to think up some tiny little diet thing to do for ten days. The doing this kind of diet hasn't been any problem at all. I write my weight down on my calendar on the first of each month and a couple of words to remember what the diet was for that month. Good Luck.