No Snacks, no sweets, no seconds. Except on Days that start with S. Too simple for you? Simple is why it works. Look here for questions, introductions, support, success stories.
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reinhard
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by reinhard » Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:04 pm
from page 131 of
Food Rules, rule #60 "Treat treats as treats"
These special occasion foods offer some of the great pleasures of
life, so we shouldn't deprive ourselves of them, but the sense of
occasion needs to be restored. One way is to start making these foods
yourself... Another is to try to limit your consumption of such foods
to weekends or special occasions. Some people follow a so called S
policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets -- except on days that begin
with the letter S."
Though I wish he would have called it "the No S Diet" instead of an "S policy," (and given a citation to the book or web site) it's pretty cool that the god of contemporary food writing found the No-s rules important enough to include more or less verbatim in his very concise distillation of the best food wisdom around.
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by wosnes » Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:28 pm
There's an email address
in here so you could contact him.
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
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by reinhard » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:10 pm
Thanks, Wosnes! Just emailed him.
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by wosnes » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:59 pm
You'll have to let us know if you hear from him and what he has to say. Your readers are some of his biggest fans!
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
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by sophiasapientia » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:18 pm
I saw that when I read his latest book. Very cool! Congrats Reinhard and let us know what he says.
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by Mavilu » Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:56 pm
Yay!, that's great news!.
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by oolala53 » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:37 pm
Speaking of Pollan, if a person was going to read only one of his books, which would you recommend?
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
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by wosnes » Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:27 am
oolala53 wrote:Speaking of Pollan, if a person was going to read only one of his books, which would you recommend?
In terms of food,
In Defense of Food (he's written a number of other books as well). I think there's more useful information in it.
The Omnivore's Dilemma is also very good, though I've read that
The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids is an easier read.
I will have to say that
In Defense of Food is basically an extension of these articles:
http://michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=71
http://michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=77
http://michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=87
I also think
Food Matters by Mark Bittman is very good.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 17,00.html
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
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by oolala53 » Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:39 am
tank U very much, wosnes.
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
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by ~reneew » Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:14 am
Cool cool!
I guess this doesn't work unless you actually do it.
Please pray for me
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by RedBaron » Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:19 am
hmm... I've never heard of this guy...
I feel so left out...
::starts reading up::
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What is the reason for this thusness?"
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by Happy Cooker » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:05 pm
Red Baron, if you're interested in natural philosophy (if I even know what that is), check out Pollan's The Botany of Desire. It's four portraits of plants that seem to be selecting us rather than the other way around: apple, potato, tulip, and cannabis. He's a wonderful writer, combining experience and painstaking research [is there any other kind?] fluidly in a way that stirs up your assumptions. My current copy is from Bookman's, BTW.
It's not a you-should-eat-this book, but it is a great, mind-opening read.
So glad to hear that Pollan is referencing the No S diet. I like it that he refers to it as a policy, because that's more like what it really is. I've been following no S for 1 1/2 years+ now. I screw up briefly at times, but it's how I eat now. No amazing weight loss--about 15 pounds--but I maintain it effortlessly. And I can't express how much less cluttered my psyche is.
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by Nichole » Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:14 pm
It has to be from the NYTimes articles where many of us posted!
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