I don't care so much about dieting, but I'm very interested in finding foods that are healthy and easy to make. I find I'm much more productive when I have a premade or easily prepared meal. I like having an obvious choice for a meal that I don't have to think about.<p>So far I've found:<p>* Non-fat Cottage Cheese and Apples/Applesauce<p>* Bean Burritos with a light amount of sharp cheddar (the sharper the cheddar the less you need to use), making about 5-6 in a batch.<p>* Rice-A-Roni Red Beans and Rice<p>If I could skip a meal each day without screwing up my metabolism or energy level (which this article seems to suggest), that could be useful.
I don't really get the logic of this part of the article:<p>* Eating a food that's flavourful and familiar => your body says 'stock up' => you eat more.<p>* Swallowing unflavoured oil between meals => you gain calories but do not trip the 'stock up' trigger<p>* Roberts could eat whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and felt less hungry.<p>Yet, if he's eating the same familiar, flavourful foods, surely he's tripping the mechanism at mealtimes <i>and</i> ingesting extra calories between meals, meaning he should gain weight? If there's an additional logical step in the reasoning, i.e. eating oil makes your stomach full so you eat less, it should really have been mentioned.<p>(Before I'm told to Google it, I'm sure further literature on the diet explains the full logic; my point is that the article doesn't.)
I wish I could tell other people how to gain control over their food-willpower so I could write a bestseller. I think I'll give it a try. <a href="http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/09/15/how_to_write_a_diet_book.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/09/15/how_to_write_a_...</a><p>Somehow, I did gain control over my food-willpower. I absolutely love food, healthy or otherwise, and I basically eat whatever I want, more protein than anything else. I've taken to drinking large amounts of fruit juice to make up a caloric deficit if I haven't eaten much. I figure fruit juice is the healthiest source of empty calories.