Kapluska wrote:The real problem is my non-existent capability to preview, plan, think in advance and prepare anything. Day-to-day, moment-to-moment living. I am hoping that No S will help me to change this. ONE DAY
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I have this, too. When I was working, I ate out almost every day, because I'm not organized enough to plan to pack lunches.
I'm succeeding (mostly) at No-S, though.
Try to fix your eating problem. Leave the larger problem of not being able to plan be, at least for the time being. It might help to focus on something smaller for the moment. Success, even at something small, is motivating.
Try making it harder to slip off your diet.
Don't buy a lot of sweets or snack foods. Just about everybody in developed countries today would be better off if they ate fewer sweet and salty snack foods. It's easier if you only have to exercise willpower while you're grocery shopping than having to exercise it all the time at home.
Don't make extra of whatever you're cooking, so you'll have leftovers for another meal. That's great for some people, but a lot of us will eat more if there's more available (see Brian Wansink's
Mindless Eating for many examples).
Don't spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Make it inconvenient to get a snack.
Don't keep dishes of candy or other snack foods handy in other parts of the house. I can't have candy dishes, because I can polish off an entire candy dish while watching a one-hour TV show. It doesn't even matter if it's not even candy I particularly like, I'll still eat it. I'm not alone in this, either. Brian Wansink's group gave movie-goers buckets of free stale popcorn. Most of them ate at least some of it, because it was there.
Don't eat anything right out of the package. Always put it in a bowl or on a plate first. That way, if you do slip up and eat between meals, at least you're less likely to eat an entire bag of chips.