Would potato chips be ok?

[MrsPartridge]

I'm new and this No-S seems very doable. However I wonder if I could add a small serving of potato chips to my lunch? It's not sugar and it's not a snack - just part of lunch. Would that work?

Thanks.

[wosnes]

Yes, it's okay. Maybe not the BEST choice, but okay and more than a few of us have done that.

[gratefuldeb67]

It's fine.
Better to have the food you are craving as part of your meal.
And it is far superior than eating the whole bag.
Good luck!
Debs

[rpm]

Mrs. P,

As long as the chips will fit on the plate then you are okay. I have only been following No S for 5 weeks but I figure that if it can fit on plate I can eat it as long as the food is not a sweet.

[MrsPartridge]

I always had chips around here because they made good snacks. Today, day one of No-S, I didn't see any point to eating chips with lunch. As the book says, it seems silly to eat snack food as part of a meal.

I'm quite happy with this so far, but it's only day one. I hope I can make this a lifetime habit.

I remember as a kid eating 3 meals. We didn't own any snack foods - no one did. It would have been weird to eat outside of those meals. We went about our lives between meals.

[connorcream]

I always had chips around here because they made good snacks. Today, day one of No-S, I didn't see any point to eating chips with lunch. As the book says, it seems silly to eat snack food as part of a meal.


I need to reread that. May weight loss has been very very slow. I usually do have potato chips when I eat a sandwich. Just a few not a serving size a couple times a week. Never between meals. Maybe at 46 yrs, it is enough calories to stop progress.

[reinhard]

Relevant "teaser content" from the book (page 36):

Are Snacks When I Eat or What I Eat?

For the purposes of the No S Diet, snacks are when,
not what. Pretzels with lunch are lunch. Maybe not a
particularly healthy lunch, but the No S Diet delegates
that micro- decision to you. A snack, for No S Diet pur-
poses, is any food you eat between meals. A meal is any
food you eat at meals. The kind of food is completely
up to you.

That being said, you will probably wind up eating a
lot less unhealthy snack food. Why? Because you’ll feel
silly eating snacks for meals. They’re in the wrong
conceptual category. You’ll want meal foods for meals; and
that’s great, because as I just pointed out, snack foods
tend to be terrible for you. In this way, you indirectly
limit the what with the when.

Conversely, of course, eating foods that you would
normally eat at a meal (like a salad or a sandwich)
between meals still counts as a snack. So there’s no get-
ting around this rule by eating a steak au poivre on
your coffee break instead of a bag of chips.

[FarmerHal]

I have them with lunch. Generally, it's crackers for me, not chips. If I include them as a lunch side, then I am less likely to binge on them later inthe day.