The New Sonoma Diet by Connie Guttersen

Author:Connie Guttersen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2011-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

TIME AND MONEY ISSUES

This diet is too expensive with all the protein, fruits, and vegetables. Is there a cheaper version?

The Sonoma Diet can push your grocery bill up a bit with its emphasis on fresh, wholesome foods. On the other hand, you’ll be buying few or no processed foods, which often have added costs due to labor, transportation, marketing, and so on.

You can stock up on frozen and canned fruits and vegetables (as long as they have no added sugar). Some fresh vegetables are cheaper than others; if economy is a factor, let that decide which you buy. Fresh fruits and vegetables in season cost less. Some, such as berries, you can buy a lot of when the price is down and freeze them for later use. Check out farmers’ markets; there are bargains, especially locally grown produce in season.

Look for what’s on sale and make the diet work around that. For example, if chicken prices are way down this week (as they sometimes are), stock up and make chicken your protein for several days. Freeze the rest.

Look for bargains in bulk. That’s often the case with beans and grains.

NO EXCUSES

Are you an expert at finding reasons to fudge the diet guidelines? That puts you in the company of a large percentage of dieters. There’s always a good excuse for eating a candy bar just this once, or for piling up the pork loin so it overflows the plate, or for going with white rice instead of brown. You’re in a hurry, the pork would have been wasted otherwise, and the store was out of brown rice. And so forth.

Excuses sabotage your diet. Deal with them. Get a piece of paper and a pen and write down all the excuses you use to eat what you shouldn’t. Keep the paper and pen handy because you’ll surely come up with new ones as the days go by.

Then, alongside each excuse list a way to address it that makes sense for the way you live. If your excuse for eating a toaster waffle in the morning instead of the prescribed Sonoma Diet breakfast is that you don’t have time, write next to that excuse, “Get up fifteen minutes earlier.” If your excuse for adding sugar to your coffee is that that’s what you’re used to, write down “Get used to noncaloric sweetener or unsweetened coffee.”

True, writing down solutions is no guarantee you’ll carry them out. But when you see in black-and-white how easy it can be to overcome your excuses, the solutions are harder to ignore. Try it.

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