By Larry Marsh, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2009
Don’t try this without your doctor’s approval, but this might be “just what the doctor ordered.”
The objective of the No-Eat-Day-Diet is to never have a no-eat day.
Here’s how it works. You set a maximum weight you don’t want to exceed. You then weigh yourself every morning. If your weight exceeds your maximum, then it’s a no-eat day.
On a no-eat day, you eat nothing except a big glass of water at each meal and usually your normal medications, if any. Check with your doctor.
The diet is primarily for weight maintenance but could be used to nudge down your weight over time.
If you get hungry just take a walk, take a nap, work out at the gym or do whatever works as a distraction.
No-eat days are tough. You don’t want to ever have to go through one. But that’s the point. If you are careful, you never will.
Had a big lunch, skip dinner. Planning a big dinner, skip lunch.
Do whatever it takes, but know that the numbers don’t lie. You will be facing the scale in the morning.