The problem is that it takes a long time to create good habits and almost no time flat to ruin them with bad ones. I’m really fighting 20 or so years of unhealthy eating habits. I’ve had ten solid weeks to counteract those habits.

At the end of the day I need to take responsibility for myself and realize that the only way to really keep losing weight like I was losing it is to just stick with it. It’s not a fancy system and it’s very uninteresting, especially after 10 whole weeks. However, it worked like magic when I was doing it.

Isn’t that what it’s really supposed to be all about? You find what works and you stick with it until you hit your goal. Here’s the problem. When you hit the goal, what happens?

What I need to change is my attitude about dieting. Instead of thinking of what I’m doing as a way to lose weight over the short term, I need to really focus on just eating that way all the time, regardless of what I weigh. That way I can manage to stay healthy and happy for the rest of my life instead of doing the whole diet roller coaster thing, which frankly is so stressful that it isn’t worth it, no matter how delicious some food can be.

This is going to be the first full week back on the diet and it’s a real struggle. I’m changing my mindset to have zero tolerance again. I think that will make a big difference. It did the first time around. Let’s see if I can do it for the next 10 weeks.

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However, it did come with one significant drawback. After 10 weeks I was very worn out. I was completely out of energy and I was just feeling beat up, so I did the smart thing and took a week off. The week off was a real mixed blessing.

On one hand I really managed to recharge my battery so to speak. It was great to do so because now I feel like I have the energy again to devote to working hard at exercise and such.

The downside of taking a week off, is that mentally I took a week of the diet as well so I ended up eating a lot of junk. Yes, I gained back a few pounds, but that’s not really the thing that sucked. What was really horrible about eating junk is that I feel awful because of all the sugar and fat that I’ve been ingesting.

It makes me realize that our society is really messed up. We eat these copious amounts of food thinking that it will make us feel better, but in reality you feel worse if you eat lots of food. Not just that, but eating lots of calories and sugar/HFCS, you just end up feeling tired and lazy all the time.

So, in short, by taking a week off I feel both better and worse. I’m glad I did it, but at the end of the day I need to really stick to eating healthy because if I don’t eat right, my body feels miserable. Oh well, lesson learned. Tomorrow I’m back to the exercise and today I’m back to eating right.

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It didn’t work. At all. In fact I gained a little weight, though that isn’t exactly the fault of the diet. You see, I’m a pretty average guy when it comes down to it. At times my willpower is very good. At times I can make myself exercise regularly, other times I don’t do so well.

This past month was one where I basically didn’t follow the diet for more than one or two days a week. I ate out a few times a week. I only hit the gym maybe once a week, if that. Worst of all, I started drinking pop more often and snacking on my wife’s amazing homemade brownies and cookies. I pretty much didn’t give this diet a fair shake at all.

The reasons are pretty much the same reasons that every diet fails. I’m lazy, I’m busy, I just don’t feel motivated. It’s pretty sad, but in the end the results don’t lie. I failed at the simple diet.

My failure in following this diet brings up an interesting point I think is worth discussing. Did I fail the diet or did the diet fail me? In my opinion every diet should be designed with the average person in mind and should account for both success and failure on the part of the dieter. In this case I think most of the blame should land squarely on my shoulders. I failed the diet moreso than the diet failed me.

However, the simple diet does have some shortcomings. The biggest shortcoming is figuring out what to eat. In a sense, the diet is too simple this way. Sometimes freedom is a bad thing. In this instance I tend to think that the simple diet needs refinement. Knowing what you should eat as part of the diet I think would help me make fewer bad decisions, because I’d feel like I have limited options.

The other major shortcoming is food preparation. Eating say four or five times a day takes preparation. I didn’t do the food prep needed each day to eat the right kind of smaller meals. I tried frozen dinners to a certain level of success, but they never did a good job of keeping me full. Soup worked a bit better and was easy to prepare at work, but it gets old. Ultimately, the simple diet needs a way to simply bring small meals with you to work that keep you content and not craving food.

At the end of the day, even with the diet’s shortcomings I know I could have had success on the simple diet. I just didn’t have the willpower and the attention span to stick with it. The bulk of the failure is my own and that can’t be denied.

If you are looking at a diet to try, the simple diet could still work for you, but I’m not sure if you’ll see the intended results unless you can overcome the diet’s weaknesses as well as your own personal weaknesses. Sometime I intend on trying the simple diet again, but I’ve got some others to test before it gets another shot.

Eat four meals a day, but eat less each time you eat. What this means is you start out the day with a bigger breakfast, but you end the day with a smaller dinner. This ensures that you end up having a better balance throughout the day.

Here’s how it would work on a normal day. Wake up an eat breakfast of say scrambled eggs, a couple pieces of sausage, and either a pancake or a piece of whole wheat toast with real blueberry jam(no high fructose corn syrup). Then at say 11:30 have a sandwich for lunch and perhaps a cup of soup and a piece of fruit, but only iced tea or water to drink. Later in the afternoon have a smaller snack at say 3:00. A microwave dinner or a bowl of chunky soup works well for this. Then for dinner eat a very small portion of meat and green veggies. Stay away from white breads and starches the closer it is to bedtime.

The genius of this diet is that it requires the least amount of behavior modification of any diet I can think of. You end up eating one extra meal in the afternoon, but you end up eating less because you’re eating more often. It cuts your calorie intake in a way that doesn’t make you feel like you’re starving and you want to binge.

As I said, I’m going to try it out for a few weeks and then publish my results in a much lengthier and more in depth report. Stay tuned!