Dave's Foolproof 5-Seconds-a-Day Diet for Lazy People

How would you like a diet where you can eat everything and anything you want and still lose weight? How would you like to take off extra pounds without exercise or pills? How does a six pack of beer and a pizza with extra cheese sound?

If you're like me, you've tried lots of diets. Most start off with wonderful results. You tell everyone you're on a diet and you fell flush with victory and you wait for the inevitable compliments. But then sooner or later you backslide, put back all the pounds and sometimes more.

Dave's FoolProof 5-Seconds-a-Day Diet  is based on years of scientific studies showing that within a few days of starting any diet, the body releases very potent alarm signals - I'M STARVING! FEED ME!  This makes it almost impossible mentally and physically to stay on a diet without superhuman resolve. 

Dave's Diet ju-jitsu's this signal by finding a way around it.  Anybody can do it, and it absolutely works. You don't have to count calories, prepare special foods, exercise, take pills, and most importantly, you don't have give up chocolate cake, cookies, juicy steaks, french fries, pizza, pasta, booze, beer or anything else you crave. All you have to do is be patient.

Can you wait a year to lose 15 pounds? In two years, would you like to be 30 pounds lighter? 

If you stick with it, and you will find it is very easy to do, in one year you will lose 12-15 pounds, guaranteed.

Here's How it Works

Every day make one little Dave's Diet Decision. 

Eat, eat, eat. Eat exactly as much, eat as often and eat the same foods as you would any day. Just make one Dave's Diet Decision every day.

The average person eats five times a day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks.  That gives you five opportunities to make one Dave's Diet Decision. 

What is a Dave's Diet Decision?

OK. Here is the secret. A Dave's Diet Decision is this:

Choose not to eat one item or one part of the food in front of you. 

If you were planning on drinking a six-pack of beer, drink five cans. If you wanted to eat all four slices of chocolate cake, eat only three. If you wanted to eat all three rows of that package of Oreo cookies with a carton of cold whole milk, eat only two rows of cookies. Enjoy the milk.

If you're at a restaurant and you wanted the soup, salad with dressing, bread and butter, appetizer, the fettuccini Alfredo with chicken, AND the dessert, with the cocktail before, the bottle of Pinot Noir during, and the cheese platter after, choose not to eat one of those courses. (I count 11 choices. Give up one of them, like the salad. Just drink the dressing.)

Simple, right?

The only hard part is that you must do this every day, no skipping.

Well. OK.  I'll tell you what. You can skip a day or two or week. It will still work. 

How do you know it works, Dave?

I know this diet works for three reasons: Personal Experience, Science, and  Psychology.

Personal Experience

I've stuck with this diet now for one year and I've lost 23 pounds. I drink a single malt scotch whiskey every night, and love red wine. I eat cookies and cakes as much as any normal American, and I eat plenty of dark chocolate - doctor's orders -  because of its proven properties for beating the blues. I look for  65%+ cocoa chocolate (Ghiradelli's and Trader Joe's are great).

I love a thick, juicy hamburger with all the fixin's, and a pile of fries (Pinhead Susan's in Schenectady, NY has the best irish - sweet potato - fries in the world.)

As a result of making only one Dave's Decision a day,  I'm now only marginally obese. One day soon, I hope to be just plain fat. Ultimately, my goal is get to "stocky," then "heavy" and then, the ultimate, for people to say, "Oh, Dave, he's not fat, he's just large-boned." 

Science and Math

Science tells us this works because a pound is only 3500 calories. A good Sam Adams or microbrewery beer will have about 160 calories, conservatively speaking. If you give up a single beer a day, you  will have saved 4800 calories or almost 1.4 pounds in a month!

If you  give up three cookies a day (one at each meal, say) then you also save 160 calories and will also lose 1.4 pounds that months. If you do both, you will lose almost 3 pounds a month.

Stick with Dave's Diet and you will lose 17 pounds in a year at least.

Psychology

This is really where you win with Dave's Diet: beating the minds own tricks to defeat dieting. You're getting the best of both worlds.

You're eating everything you want. But you're not starving your body, so you're not getting those devilish signals of desperation which lead to binge, compulsive eating and which in turn defeat most diets.

You are intervening in the place where most diets fail: in your mind!

You also are disciplining yourself. Yes, you. Discipline. You'll find that making a Dave's Decision becomes a game and then a habit. You also will find that you will be making a Dave's Diet Decision more than once a day because it's so easy. It gets easier as it goes along, and you're not making any drastic or spartan life changes. You're just engaging yourself in a little mental dialogue and then declaring victory every time you succeed.  Since there are no rules, there aren't the million pathways to failure that undo the psychology of most other diets. There are only opportunities for victory.

Finally, nothing succeeds like success. Since the expectations or goals of this diet are small, it is easy to succeed.  And once you succeed, you will want to do more. Just go to bed every night and celebrate that victory and feel satisfied: you're going to bed with a full belly and you've finally found a diet that you can stick to for life!