Stop me before I snack again!
It’s a simple concept, but one that many people could use. The Kitchen Safe measures 6 x 6 x 6.5 in. (15.2 x 15.2 x 16.5 cm), which is large enough to fit a variety of items. The time-lock can be set for any amount of time between one minute and 10 days, so you can specify exactly when something will be released.
Once an item is locked inside, there is no way of opening the Kitchen Safe until the timer reaches zero. Even if the batteries are drained or taken out, the lock will stay sealed and the countdown will resume once they’re replaced. Other than cracking the container open with a hammer, there’s almost no chance of cheating.
Prediction: a hammer will be used.
And then the buyer will probably go out and buy another Kitchen Safe.
Don’t think I’m mocking those who might need it. I most definitely am not. People who don’t have to diet have no idea what it’s like for people who do (me, for my entire life since puberty, fairly rigorously).
Of course, some of you diet and have absolutely iron willpower. But most of the thin people I know can eat (for example) a doughnut every couple of days and not have to worry, whereas most of those who tend to be heavier can’t do that.
The way I deal with it all is to try to avoid even buying anything tempting, except on rare occasions. That makes a trip to the grocery store an exercise in self-denial, a contradiction because I still get to fill the cart with things I do happen to like—fruits, vegetables, etc.—but can’t eat an indefinite amount of, either (I’m a fairly small woman, and I’m not a lumberjack).
So long ago I had the concept of something like the Kitchen Safe, and even tried to design one. Mine was grander in scope and involved the entire fridge and all the pantries and cabinets—not very practical, especially for families.
And with all-night grocery stores, not very effective either. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Whenever I would want to read a book for the entire day, I was unknowingly engaging in fasting. Being hungry, then ignoring it, until sometime later the hunger goes away because the body is now getting its energy from pure fat, absent any artificial toxins or impurities.
Exercise, in a lot of ways, puts unnecessary stress on people who are not physically capable. Recently, people have started utilizing exercise regimens that weren’t designed for faster or stronger people.
My wife and I exercise frequently but never saw weight loss until we tried “The Fast Diet” it is pretty simple in concept, if not in execution: Twice a week we subsist on one meal (dinner) of 500 calories. The rest of the time we eat what we want.
dbp: yes, I saw a long TV program about that diet, and researched it. Some people seem to do well on it, others report no weight loss.
It’s not possible for me to follow it because if I have semi-fasting days like that it tends to trigger a migraine.
I’m on the One Plate Diet.
I pretty much eat what I want (try to avoid mega-portions of carbs and pretty much all desserts) but no seconds. Modest portions on a single plate.
It’s not a fast as in lose-weight-quick diet but it works over time.
Add a bit of exercise to make things go faster.
Neo, sorry to hear about the migraine issue, our middle daughter gets them and they are no joke–though hers seem to be on the mild-side as those things go.
What really impresses me about the fast diet is that someone like me lost weight on it. (I realize that I am entering the humblebrag zone here) I wasn’t really heavy to begin with (5′ 7″ 150 lb) and already a distance runner. My reason for wanting to lose weight was that as a participant in road races I was hoping to compensate for loss of speed from age (I am 50) by becoming a little lighter.
So far I have not detected any increase in speed but I am down about 10 lbs in three months. The thing is that I had to run 30 miles/week and watch what I ate (more or less how Paul describes his SOP) to stay at 150 lbs. I still run of course, but I eat like a teen-aged boy on the non fast days.