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.
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.
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."
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."
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:
"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."
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.
