No S Diet: No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds, Except on Days That Start with S

Well written and simple guide to eating sensibly with no guilt and gradual results. Would definitely recommend reading to put you out of the misery of that vicious cycle of dieting.

I have lost over 10kg in a year on this diet, which has worked where no other diet has. Perhaps this book oversells it a little, but I can't complain too much as it's working!

Great book, read in one weekend. Simple idea that works.

probably the best 'diet' book I've ever come across - shame it took me 60 yrs! I'm buying a copy for everyone in my family!

When I was fourteen years old I found a book about nutrition in my parents bookshelf. I loved it. And I began to read more and more about nutrition, food and health. This interest finally led me to studying medicine. All the time healthy nutrition was a favorite topic of mine. From Ayurveda and Atkins over Blood Type Diet, Chinese Medicine, Counting Calories, Low Carb, Raw Food, Organic, Vegan to Paleo - you name it, I read it. And tried most of it. Still when the stressful work routine caught me I began to gain weight. After 7 years working in a hospital I had gained 7 kilos. And I thought: well, I have to work 30 more years - let's not continue this... ;-)But I ate healthy. So what to do? This was when the No-S-Diet kicked in. It immediately made sense to me. It was the answer to most of my eating problems - I was just eating too much and too often. The No-S-Diet solved all of these problems. Now, 2 years later, I got rid of these 7 kilos again and keep them off. I want to emphasize the point that I write this 2 years after being on the "diet". It is not a temporary quick fix - it is an totally easy to follow set of habits that will keep you in shape for the rest of your life.From a medical point of view a lot of diets make sense in an physiological way or seen from the point of view of biochemistry. And they even work when applied properly. BUT: most of them are either too complicated to follow in the long run or they create a sense of deficit that will finally lead to giving it up or loosening the rules, making the system less effective. The No-S-Diet is quite the opposite: it leaves you with a feeling of freedom and choice, giving you just enough rules that it will work. And these rules over the time turn into habits, making it really easy to apply them in the long run. After 2 year I have no feeling of "when is this finally going to end???" - I deep down know, that I will apply the system till the end of my life. It is totally practical. I would go so far as to say: a piece of genius (thank you, Reinhard!!)So, take the advice of a doctor (that being me... ;-)) - use the no S diet to get healthy eating habits (3 plates a day and no sweets from Monday to Friday and weekends "off"- period). You will loose weight, keep it off and thus stay much healthier. And if you are missing something or want to achieve something special or solve a specific problem: use other systems to find out what best to put on these plates. But never forget which system is fundamental/basic and which one is an "add on"...You can even expect that this system will set free some mental energy, especially for the kind of people (like I was...) being obsessed with optimizing their nutrition. Finally you have a systems that works. You can enjoy food again. Congratulations!