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Wait... you mean that literal "3s" retardation, which proudly ignores calorie intake completely along with any attempt at recognizing the difference between different kinds of foods, serving sizes and metabolisms?
Diet which treats a plate of pork the same way it would a bowl of soup?
Diet which is strict - except on weekends?
Diet which takes pride in ignorance?

http://nosdiet.com/

That's much too rational and straightforward. Come on, REALLY, why is this diet so much better?

You wouldn't take diet advice from a fat person, why take it from a fat book? Weighing in at just 14 words, the No S Diet is the ultra featherweight of diet plans.

(Yes, I know, I've now written a book myself -- but it's a wee little thing. You can easily read it in a day. And of course, for the bare essentials of the system, all you need is the cover.)

I was actually hoping you weren't referring to that, and that you were just suffering from a form of appeal to nature fallacy combined with some appeal to tradition.
if you're buying into that crap... wow... you have bigger issues.
Hey! Issues also has 3 Ss in it! Why not call it "I have issues diet"?

It's Reinhard Engels from his site http://nosdiet.com/. He's not a widely acclaimed dietition or nutrional expert or anything, but the idea is simple and straightforward enough that it's really hard to fuck up. He's also the guy behind the "Shovelglove" workout, which is similarly straightforward.

And it doesn't even have to be complicated. In fact, you're probably more likely to succeed by adhering to a few simple rules rather than a huge complicated "don't eat this! Eat this instead!" regimen.

Personally, I follow the No 'S' Diet, which anyone should be able to follow without much trouble or any undue financial burden: http://nosdiet.com/

Did you watch the video and read my post?

All of those foods contain a good amount of fibers, hence mitigating the effects of fructose. It is the refined and added sugars that you need to cut from your diet.

I cut out basically all refined and added sugars from my diet a couple of years ago because I read http://nosdiet.com/. It sounded very reasonable and most crucially, very easy to live by. It's nice to see that a vital cornerstone of those guidelines (no sweets/sugars) has solid scientific support in the form of dr. Lustig's work and extremely informative lecture.

This is so true. I too have an incredibly long sedentary job stuck behind a desk.

While metabolism does adjust based upon various factors, which alters how efficiently you burn calories (as opposed to flushing them out) the body is remarkably efficient; if you can digest it (i.e. not fibre), you will either burn it or store it. If you can't adjust how much you burn by substantial exercise, then the answer is to reduce how much goes in at the front end. Most people, like myself, who think they have a slow metabolism simply don't realise how much they eat.

Lets say you do an hour of moderate exercise in the gym a day; that's maybe 500-700 calories. If you work really really hard, that's 1000, absolute tops. 500 calories is the difference between a medium meal and a big meal; or a couple of cans of energy drink. Or a slice of cake. Or even just little snacks between meals. 130 calories a day over how much you expend (a can of coke), and that's 14 pounds weight gain a year.

I've read the hackers diet and it's good advice for guys like us. I've started counting how much I eat. You know what? I massively underestimated how much I was really eating. All the little stuff really mounts up. Even when I thought I was being good, I wasn't.
So now I count my calories (reasonably roughly) mainyl by weighing my food when I'm cooking it. I've cut down my portions by around 30% - which sounds like a lot, but honestly isn't considering I was eating past when I was full. I've substituted my crap snacks with fruit, and cut out the sweets, second portions, junk food and normal desserts. I record my weight daily on physicsdiet (which has a nice smoothing function for when you go up or down a few pounds due to water weight - it shows the overall trend very nicely)

I still have three proper meals a day, and even have low-calorie desserts. I can put my hand on my heart, and honestly say I do not feel hungry. I'm eating 1700-odd calories a day, which is about half of what I'm expending. I don't go to the gym, and have only slightly increased how much exercise I do - parking at the far end of the carpark and walking the extra two minutes, a short stroll at lunch, that sort of thing.

Going by the scales, I've lost 21 pounds in 6 weeks. According to the bodyfat it's almost entirely fat. I'm under 280 pounds for the first time in years. I can certainly wear trousers I haven't been able to wear for years. I've lost 4" off my waist. While I may not look much different, I do feel better - I certainly never feel starved. I'm going to try to fit some time in the gym a few days a week, but that will be in addition to the 1700 calories I'm already dieting.

So my advice to you, original tnok85 - estimate how much you eat in a day. Then keep a food diary, and record how much you eat, in full detail. Record your weight daily on physicsdiet (which is basically an online version of the hackers diet spreadsheets), or even just in excel. I bet you'll be surprised at the difference between what you think you eat, and what you do eat.

Then work out how many calories you'd likely spend in the gym, and see if you can cut that from your diet with low hanging fruit - the no-S diet may help here. Keep recording your weight daily. And see how you go.

Me? I'm going to lose all this weight I've put on in 20 years through inattention, whether it takes 6 months, a year or 3 years. I'm likely going to have to keep a close eye on how much I cook, and weigh myself regularly for life. But the diet? It's not a diet. I'm just eating like a normal healthy person, instead of a normal healthy person who eats big meals and has the odd slice of cake.

I just ran across this website a few days ago. The author also has a diet-related website: The No S Diet Both seem reasonable to me (although I'd personally rather exercise more than 14 minutes a day just because I like it).

Hey, I'm getting there...

To those who are interested in the hackers diet, I also recommend looking at the No-S Diet (http://nosdiet.com/). I like it because it can be explained in three rules rather than needing a whole book to understand it all, and its actually do-able. It's not a quick fix, but really works over time.

For exercise, I use a portable gym made with a sledgehammer called Shovelglove.

Both of these plans, along with Urban Ranger, were developed by a computer programmer, so you may find they work for you too.

Once my body adapted to the dietary and exercise changes, I found that I had far more energy through the day than I was accustomed to.

Adherence was poor and attrition was high in both groups

This seems to be the biggest problem to me, besides the "long term studies are required" bit. Most popular diet plans will lose you weight if you stick with them -- the trouble is hardly anyone does (95% failure rate, according to the FDA). They're not ineffective; they're just really unpleasant and difficult to be on.

So if you're feeling lucky, and don't really like food (though I'm not sure how you got fat then), give one of these a shot. Otherwise you might want to try a system that acknowledges this grim statistic and targets the real culprit: not your belly, but your mind.