Satisfaction Diet

I wanted a diet that was sustainable, enjoyable, and effective.

I’ve dieted effectively by counting all my calories, but it was annoying and high maintenance. However, through the calorie counting I learned that some foods are much more satisfying per calorie. In the past year I lost about 25 lbs while truly enjoying food and cooking.

Satisfaction Diet Guidelines

1. Salted coffee and water in the morning.
2. Don’t eat until noon.
3. Don’t eat between lunch and dinner, no snacks in the house.
4. Don’t eat after dinner.
5. Zone 2 cardio in the morning for 30 minutes to 2 hours.
6. Enough strength training to keep the muscles and ligaments around joints strong enough to have no joint pain.
7. Don’t start cooking until second hungry. (Just like how after being tired for a while we can get a “second wind”. After being hungry for a while it subsides, and much later we get “second hungry”.)
8. Cook from scratch, so the barrier to getting food is higher.
9. Cook really tasty and satisfying food.
10. Eat as big a portion as you want, but not enough to get food coma.
11. Cook just the portion for that meal with no leftovers.
12. Ingredient prep in batches, don’t meal prep in batches.