Dawn's Gnoshing Diet

Gnoshing Diet.

After several of my friends have requested this.....

This is a diet I developed some 35 years ago. It works. Every time. Without fail. This is NOT a joke.

It is a way of permanently and effectively retraining your body and mind to keep you at your chosen weight.

It is more of a philosophy of eating. It is neither difficult, nor painful.

The weight loss is fairly rapid, consistent and works for years and years and years.

Day One. Throw away your scale. THROW IT OUT.

When you arise, get your coffee, or orange juice, or tea. Grab something like

½ bagel, with or without cream cheese. A piece of toast, with peanut butter, cream cheese, or plain old butter. Something fairly small, but something you LIKE to eat. Limit it to a small amount. I have grabbed a pork chop left over from dinner, a handful of M&M's on the run, a piece of bread, the TYPE of food you grab makes NO DIFFERENCE whatsoever. The amount DOES. Think of what you might give a three year old for a snack. THAT SIZE.

One hour later, do the same thing. Even if you ARE NOT hungry at all. Do it anyway.

One hour later, do it again.

One hour later, have your choice for lunch, a piece of pizza, a salad, an ice cream bar, doesn't matter.

One hour later, eat a couple of chips, or some nuts.

One hour later, eat another little snack.

And keep doing this all day long. There IS a reason you are doing this.

You will probably have to FORCE yourself to eat these snacks. It's okay. Do it anyway.

When you eat dinner, you will most likely eat smaller than normal. This is also okay.

Then have your snacks after dinner and up until you go to bed.

DAY TWO

Do the same thing, stretching out the time between to an HOUR and FIFTEEN MINUTES,.

DAY THREE

Again, do the same thing, stretching out the interval to one and a half hours.

DAY FOUR

Stretch it to One hour and ¾.

DAY FIVE.

Stretch it out to Two hours. If you get hungry before the two hours, go back to whatever interval you did NOT get hungry at all using.

Day Six.

Continue. You will most likely find that when actual societal mealtimes come, you are eating a child sized portion.

DO NOT FORBID YOURSELF ANY FOOD AT ALL. NONE.

If you want a caramel pastry bar, then eat it. Only ONE though, as one of your snacks.

If you want a piece of Pizza, eat it.

Snickers bars are totally okay.

The secret is to eat OFTEN, and only a small portion.

Day Seven.

Start some type of exercise. Doesn't matter one bit what kind. As long as it qualifies as exercise. Sex, walking, gym, lifting weights, running the sweeper through the whole house at a faster pace than normal, anything that makes you breathe heavy qualifies as exercise.

Day Eight.

Continue at whatever scale of time seems to work for you. Anything between 1 ½ hours to 2 hours is effective.

As you prepare dinner for your family, (or if you are a man who has a wife that cooks), stroll through the kitchen and grab a handful of the dinner selections that are safe to eat while being prepared. A piece of tomato that is going in the salad. A piece of vegetable. Whatever.

By now, your portions at the actual dinner should be quite small as you are never really hungry.

Your stomach size is shrinking. You don't feel hunger pangs anymore. You can eat whatever you feel like. You may have desserts. You many have gooey, nutty, caramely snacks.

After one month, you should need new clothes. The portions you snack on should have slowly gotten smaller and smaller. Now, instead of ½ a bagel, you only eat three bites in the moring. Instead of a half a bag of M&M's you eat ¼ of a bag. This is normal, and we WANT this.

Keep to the every two hours.

After six months, you should REALLY need new clothes.

Don't EVER stop eating this way.

You have now re-trained your body and mind and stomach. Your stomach is much smaller. You cannot eat a large portion of anything anymore.

Your body has started to burn fat, instead of storing it up.

The problem with other diets is that your body says “WHAT???? NO FOOD??? I don't THINK so. We might suffer. We are going to store fat for the famine!!

Do NOT let your body do this.

Tell your DNA that there IS NO FAMINE COMING. Give it food often, and consistently.

I know this sounds whacked out, but it works.

You will eat this way the rest of your life. And, you will stay at the weight you desire.

Last night at dinner, I ate a half a bag of Frozen Asparagus. With Bleu Cheese dressing. Not your typical diet.

I have eatin this way now for about 35 years. I have maintained a weight of 140# for the entire time, except when pregnant.

I put Dave on the diet (finally, after 17 years of trying other things and not losing any weight consistently), and in the last six weeks he has FINALLY lost 28 pounds.

He fought and fought, kept saying But I'm Not Hungry. I forced him to eat anyway. He was going on and on starving himself all day, and then eating HUGE portions at dinner and then all night long.

He is now learning to retrain his body. But, he has seen results and is liking it.

There you have it. Dawn's Gnoshing Diet. A new way to live.

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