The Homer Simpson Diet

Homer Simpson Diet

If you are confused and frustrated by the difficulty and complexity of diets available, then these simple rules just might be the best way to go. I’ve kept them simple so that even Homer Simpson could stick to them! I’d suggest that you start on Rule 1 and get it hard-wired into your daily life before moving on to rule 2 and so on. Above all, Good Luck!

1. Drink Water: before during and after meals! Virtually every diet you will ever read tells you to drink more. Instead of water you can use any nil or nearly nil calorie drinks. Otherwise your thirst (and none of us drink enough!) will convert to hunger and you will over-eat!

2. Forbidden Foods: Don’t even look at them!
Any foods containing sugar (not artificial sweeteners), flour or cereals of any description. Bread is the single biggest offender, but cakes, sweets, biscuits, pasta are all in there; bakery goods are naturally totally banned!

3. Don’t eat on an empty stomach:
It takes your body at least 30 minutes to realise that you have had something to eat, so that by the time you stop feeling hunger pangs you have eaten massively more than you really wanted or needed! Therefore, have a snack 30 minutes before a meal. Good snacks to have before are nuts, fish, meat, soup, small omelette, apple and cheese, boiled egg etc

4. Soups and Side-Salads: Salads are low in calories and loaded with minerals, vitamins and anti-oxidants; many soups are also low in calories and very healthy. When prepared imaginatively both soups and salads taste delicious and help ‘fill you up’!

5. Dine with Royalty: Invite the queen round for dinner. Make mealtime a special occasion, not to be rushed but to be savoured and taken ‘in style’ If the queen isn’t available, just pretend someone you want to impress is sharing the mealtime with you! Each mealtime is a precious ‘quality of life’ time which will never be repeated!

Successful Weight Losers (5000 pts):

Watch Less TV (<10 hours per week) 62%

Weigh themselves once/week(75%)

Eat Breakfast (78%)

Exercise daily 1 hour (90%)

Eat Fast Food < 2x per week

Don’t Eat Fast (x2 chance of obesity)

Don’t Eat until Full (x2 chance of obesity)

Ensure they get a good night’s sleep

If you eat fast and eat until you are full: x3 chance of obesity

Dr Bernard Shevlin. b.shevlin02@gmail.com

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