Everyday Systems

No seconds today,
It is not an S day yet.
I must have patience.

An apposite post;
and delaying one's pleasure
sweetens enjoyment.

This looks like
a haiku; it has the shape.
But it's not.

I love it! Thanks, mailgirl, for starting this thread -- and please keep the haikus coming, fellow diet poets.

In the book I wrote:

The No S Diet is a diet plan so short and simple that
it fits on the cover of this book. No pseudoscience, no
miracle foods, no counting calories or carbs or fat or
points, no disgusting recipes or draconian meal plans, just
plain old common sense, charmingly and mnemonically
codified. In brevity: a mantra, a haiku, a spell. But
down to earth as a Kansas wheat field.

Thanks to this thread I just noticed that with a little bit of shifting of whitespace the no s diet IS a haiku.

No snacks, no sweets, no
seconds; except (sometimes) on
days that start with S.

It's not particularly imaginative or poetic, perhaps, but it's kind of cool that it works. And who knows, maybe reformulating it like this highlights some profound, hitherto unappreciated aspects of No S.

Sometimesians will be pleased to note that only the original 14 word version works as haiku.

Reinhard

"Self-denial's a
great sweetener of pleasure"
Therein lies the joy!