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Simplicity - It Can Help You Lose Weight

Have you ever shared a Thanksgiving dinner with your family, while eating only a small serving of three items from the table?

If you did manage it, did you feel like you had been robbed of the sweet potatoes, Jell-O salad or pumpkin pie that still sat there, begging you to eat more?

The holiday table groaning with many different tasty, traditional treats is a good example of "too much of a good thing." The human mind sees all that variety, and wants some of everything.

My dog Pepper has the same problem. The kibbles can sit in her bowl all day long, and part of the night. If she isn't hungry, she ignores her bowl. But what happens when you offer a bite of cheese, a nibble of roast beef, a crust off your toast? She eats as much as she is allowed to. She loves variety as much as we do. Good thing she doesn't know how to shop at the local Safeway, or she'd be as big around as a bear.

We might feel thankful that Thanksgiving comes only once a year (followed by homemade fudge, holiday cookies and office parties, of course). But the truth is, variety - and too much of it - plagues us all year long.

That's why the simplest diet may be the best diet for you if you're just now changing to a no-sugar, healthier eating plan.

One of my favorite books on nutrition is by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, called Eat to Live. But simple, it's not. It could well be used in a college-level course in nutrition. I would recommend it to anyone who has a family to feed, because it gives a solid foundation for a long and healthy life. During the first stressful days of a new diet, though, the book itself may offer too many options and facts.

In fact, most diet books are filled with stories, statistics and recipes that can boggle the mind - and offer too many choices and confusing options - just like a modern grocery store, with 200 varieties of potato chips.

I recently read over the old "mayo clinic" diet - sometimes called the grapefruit diet. Although the real Mayo Clinic has been trying to distance themselves from this fad diet for at least 40 years, the simplicity of the thing does have its merits. You can print the whole thing on less than a fourth of a page of standard typing paper:

BREAKFAST:
1/2 grapefruit or 8oz unsweetened juice.
2 Eggs any style
2 Slices of bacon
Black coffee or tea, no sugar

LUNCH:
1/2 grapefruit or 8oz unsweetened juice.
Salad and or raw veggies (any dressing, not low fat or fat free)
Meat (Cooked any way)

DINNER:
1/2 grapefruit or 8oz unsweetened juice.
Meat (cooked any way) Vegetables (any green or red, may be cooked in butter or Seasoning or a salad as above) Black coffee or tea, no sugar

BEDTIME:
(opt) 8oz Tomato juice or skim milk

This may be the original low-carb diet. Replace the plain old eggs with the high Omega 3 eggs, replace some of the meat with fish or use beans and tofu for the protein instead, and make sure to vary the veggies and include lots of broccoli and other green vegetables known for their immune-system boosting nutrients. If you do that, you've got a simple, easy to follow plan that won't confuse the issue and add to the stress that's caused by breaking the sugar habit.

Has it been tested for safety? No. But the Atkins diet hasn't been well-studied, either, and that doesn't stop millions of people from using it.

Don't let confusion over the "perfect diet" stop you from changing to a healthier lifestyle. Start simple. It lets you pay less attention to the choice of what to eat, so you can concentrate on what really matters - your health.

New research shows that low-calorie diets can cause food obsessions and binge eating. They can even make sugar addiction worse. No wonder most people end up fatter than they started when they try to lose weight with a low-calorie diet.

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