2MAD

2MAD stands for Two Meals A Day, and it is my latest diet theory.  Here are the rules:

1. Skip breakfast except for coffee.
2. For lunch (12:00pm), have a sandwich or a fast-food cheeseburger (with bun) or 6-inch sub. No fries or chips or salad.
3. No snacks.
4. Skip supper.
5. Have a late night meal at 9pm. Include ramen noodles or other type of pasta, but watch the serving size. Also have a plate of whatever you want, like a fried egg or hamburger patty or salad or toast or green beans. Or you could eat breakfast food, like oatmeal or cereal.

That's it.  Simple, easy-to-follow, boring, cheap and effective.  I have been losing an average of 1/3 lb per day.

What is the theory behind this?  

1. Intermittent fasting.  You have 2 eating windows from 12-1 pm and 9-10 pm and 2 fasting cycles of 14 hours and 8 hours.  Instead of fasting for an entire day every week, you fast every day, just for shorter periods of time.

2. Eat your carbs.  Well, in limited quantities and no corn syrup.  Eat bread and pasta.  Keto doesn't work.

3. Calorie Restriction.   This doesn't involve calorie counting, but this plan should be less than 1500 calories per day.

See also https://2mealday.com/ where you can pay $50 for a customized meal plan.

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Update: Most diets involve "magic" foods, for example the grapefruit diet, or just eat salad.  The Atkins diet says only eat protein.  This diet has no magic foods.  You can eat anything you want, at the appropriate time, in an appropriate amount, everyday.  The problem isn't what you eat, the problem is how much you eat and when you eat it.