![]() ![]() Tracking your weight is a way of taking control of your diet and health. Go ahead, look at the scale: The author urges dieters to weigh themselves every day.Tips from the “Buddha’s Diet: The Ancient Art of Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind” by Tara Cottrell and Dan Zigmond, that can help you get lean and stay healthy the Buddha’s way. I hope it will lead to some weight loss, but in the end, it’s more about improving my self-dicipline that should help my long range healthy diet for years to come. So, I have decided to take a vow to not eat after lunch for the month of August. It was just one of the rules that have been handed down to Buddhist monks since the time of the Buddha. ![]() For the most part, that is the only time they ate. Then the monks took it all back to the temple to have a meal. When I lived in Thailand, every morning, monks would wander through the village and people would donate food and recieve a blessing. But I’ve decided to work at it at a different angle this time. Okay, I admit that my last two attempts at intermittent fasting didn’t really give me the results I hoped for. Look below for more thoughts on how to try your own “monks diet”. ![]() I’m going to continue as I would love to loose another 5kg (10lbs). I had some down days where I ate too much but overall, I was able to exercise more control over what I was eating. RESULTS: I lost 7.4 kg (16.3lbs) in 31 days (August 2020) eating only breakfast and lunch and nothing after 12 noon but water. ![]()
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