David Diet

The David Diet - Additional Information

VARIATIONS

If you purchase one pound of fish, you can microwave the entire piece, and then use the portion not consumed on Sunday (the other 10 ounces) in your salad during the week. You can also add one slice of turkey to mix things up. Other meats which you can add to the salad after you have begun losing weight are lean ham, home cooked skinless chicken breasts and home cooked lean pork. Again, you can mix and match the meats in the bowl, but keep the slice count at three for delicatessen cuts and two for thicker non-deli cuts. If you are using home prepared meat, that means no more than 3 ounces of meat in the salad per day. If you are unsure what constitutes three ounces, buy a little postage meter scale at Staples or Office Max to accurately weigh the meat.

If you don't like olives in your salad, or want something different once in awhile, add a tablespoon of Green Giant three bean salad to your dinner salad.

If you cannot handle old fashioned Quaker Oatmeal, you may substitute Quaker Squares (blue box "brown sugar" version) or raisin bran for breakfast in a one ounce serving size.

WHAT IS MISSING

In this diet, you will not find bananas, avocados, cheese, eggs, bacon, toast, beef, yogurt, french fries, spaghetti, nuts or baked goods. You will find no heavily processed foods. The goal is to know what is going into your mouth, to the maximum degree possible in a modern society. This is not a high protein diet. It is not a low carb diet. It is the David Diet, which means you will log a lot of potty time as you lose weight. It took years to get fat. Now, it will take awhile to lose it. If your house is on a septic system rather than public sewer, make sure it is in good working order. With apologies to Isaac Newton: "Whatever goes in, must come out."

CHEATING

Don't make your life difficult. Do not go on a diet-busting vacation. Stay busy during the day so you don't obsess about food. Do not go to a restaurant for any meal more than once a month. Do NOT go to a movie theater where the popcorn aroma is overwhelming. Rent a film and stay home to watch it. Do NOT go out to drink alcohol at a bar or nightclub, or you will simply add the calories back onto your body again. If you want to go out with friends, order a diet soda and if necessary, pretend it's something else. Do not keep anything in the house which will tempt you. If it isn't in the pantry or the fridge, you will eventually lose interest. If you have a personal hunger emergency, go for a walk or count out ten Ghirardelli morsels and eat them slowly, one by one. Then, confess to your buddy that you cheated. Be prepared for a scolding. Incidentally, online chatting may work. It can cause time to go faster so you can make it to your next regularly scheduled meal. Or, take a nap. By the way, chaining the doors behind which tempting food may be located will not work. If it is in the house, you will find a way to get to it. See the 1980 bittersweet comedy film "Fatso," released last year on video cassette, starring Dom DeLuise and written and directed by Anne Bancroft, for a graphic illustration of what happens when the food is behind locked and chained kitchen cabinet doors. It may be available at your local video rental store, and is listed for sale at www.amazon.com.

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