Weight control: a successful experiment
I was running an experiment since the New Year trying my own custom slow weight-loss method (with the idea of reversing a slow weight-gain long term trend, and achieving a slow weight-loss long term trend). I finally achieved the milestone I've set to myself 5 months ago (going down back to the local minimum reached in September 2008 by losing 12 pounds).
I had a nice guilt-free technique which worked for me for smoking control (a high voluntary per-cigarette "tax"), but I could not figure out how to apply that to food.
However, it turns out that there is a very simple method: do not consume calories in the evening (say, after 6pm; it makes sense to allow a couple of "grace days" a week, otherwise weight loss might be too steep and unhealthy, and one doesn't want that, and one also wants to have some penalty-free and guilt-free wiggle room). This restriction is so simple, that it is easy to self-impose a voluntary "tax" scheme for breaking this rule. The "tax" should be affordable, but sufficiently high to induce some reluctance to break the constraint.
The details should probably be tuned individually, but if someone wants to know how I tuned it for myself, I'll tell you privately.
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I had a nice guilt-free technique which worked for me for smoking control (a high voluntary per-cigarette "tax"), but I could not figure out how to apply that to food.
However, it turns out that there is a very simple method: do not consume calories in the evening (say, after 6pm; it makes sense to allow a couple of "grace days" a week, otherwise weight loss might be too steep and unhealthy, and one doesn't want that, and one also wants to have some penalty-free and guilt-free wiggle room). This restriction is so simple, that it is easy to self-impose a voluntary "tax" scheme for breaking this rule. The "tax" should be affordable, but sufficiently high to induce some reluctance to break the constraint.
The details should probably be tuned individually, but if someone wants to know how I tuned it for myself, I'll tell you privately.
(comments to this post might be initially screened)