I can make allowances like that!

You’re sort of on your on recognizance on this plan. There is a good bit of grey. Theoretically you could eat some ice cream and still not have a bad day. Now, if you have a double fudge cupcake Sunday, regardless of your other calories, that’s probably a day you’re not going to count.

Eating some potatoes (or other carbs) every now and then isn’t going to hurt. You want to keep your carbs low in general and make sure you caloric balance favors protein and fats over carbs. So if you eat 2000 calories, as long as most come from protein and fats, you’re in the right area.

You can judge your success by your weight loss or the way your pants fit or this or that. If, at the end of the week, you’re not getting results, you know you’ve made some mistakes you may not have counted.

One question however is at what pioint does a day become a write-off? You see my target isn’t to lose a lot of weight, it’s more to improve my diet to compliment the exercise that I’m already doing. So for, example, I added new potatoes to my mackerel salad today – does that write the whole day off? I know that’s an extreme example, but is it such a fine line or is there more of a grey area?

It was only about 12 months ago when I changed this dieting plan up after hearing about it from Tim Ferriss on the 4 hour work week. I ended up eating more (and being more satisfied) from focusing on high protien, low carbs and not being concerned with fat, but still lost approx 20 pounds in the 6 month period, with not much extra effort.

Thanks for the well wishes. Good to hear you’re already on the health wagon, congrats on losing 80lbs. So far I’ve been focusing more on diet than exercise, though as you’ll see in upcoming articles, I’m about to ramp up the exercise. Thanks again!