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by Jessica A. Andersen

The Sonoma diet is very similar to South Beach Diet. The biggest challenge the most dieters is choosing the right food. The Sonoma diet is much different from other plans because it teaches you to make eating and preparing food a real experience. You were taught, that is, to enjoy not only eating food but choosing it and preparing it as well.

The Sonoma diet plan teaches participants to learn to enjoy all different kinds of foods. Combining foods in new ways keeps the eating experience from getting boring. This concept mimics that of the Mediterranean diet plan. They don’t advocate eating the same boring fare every day in an effort to stay on track. Dieters can choose from a variety of foods and like each one.

The plan is divided into sections or “waves”. The first wave is the most restrictive. The first ten days or roughly two weeks of the plan is when the body learns to evaluate food all over again. The body is purged of high fat, high calorie, and sugary foods. This has to be taught again since we live in a society that offers fast food alternatives for busy people and pre-packaged meals to cut down on cooking time. Weight loss is drastic during this phase.

During the first wave most of the way he loses due to water loss, but some of it is fat loss. As you continue you will learn about the components of food and why different foods make you gain weight. In order to maintain the weight you’ve lost, you will move to the next wave of the plan.

The second wave comprises the longest phase of the Sonoma diet plan. Participants stay in this wave until they have reached their weight loss goals, much the same as the South Beach diet plan. There are no real restrictions during this phase except of course sticking with no high fat and calorie foods.

Most people grab the largest plate from their cupboards when they sit down for a meal. Then they fill the plate to capacity. This is exactly how we end up overheating in gaining weight. Sonoma diet encourages you to start with a small plate and fill it with food in very specific proportions. What you’ll learn is that you will feel like you have enough food if your plate is full. You trick your mind into believing that even know this plate is smaller because its full of food you will have enough to eat.

The last wave of the Sonoma diet is the maintenance phase. Dieters learn how to keep the weight off and continue to enjoy all of the foods that they grew to love during the other stages of the plan. The Sonoma diet website offers support for their participants as well as dieting tools like menu planners, recipes, and lists of healthy foods to choose from while on the diet.

Exercise while not a central theme of this diet, is extremely important. Sonoma diet, however, emphasizes and focuses on changing the way you eat and removing bad habits in order to lose weight. My opinion, of course, is that you can do both. When you add an exercise routine and combine that with the Sonoma - you will lose more weight, more quickly than you ever imagined.

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    I sometimes ponder the idea of sneaking veggies into Josh’s very…well, southern diet (that is when we manage to actually live together, you know, that old story.) But now I’m wary! I’d at least have to test everything first, because if he ever wised up to my plans…well that would definitely start out with a “Now see here, woman…”

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  9. on 03 Apr 2009 at 5:46 amD.

    Although Rdoc has laid down a decent diet in his post, I personally do not believe in 7 day plans. And Rdoc himself has mentioned that here. What is needed is a lifestyle change. If a diet makes you feel hungry and miserable forget it because you aren’t going to stick to it! I personally manage to keep my weight under control despite my age as I am a voracious eater of fruits and vegetables and do not like fried foods and sweets.

  10. on 06 Apr 2009 at 8:20 pmAnonymous

    Time for a 2006 classic by fakestevejobs:

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    Linus, man, I feel your pain. First the "community" turned on you because you wouldn’t swear an oath of loyalty and adopt the GPL version 3 license. Now IBM has pulled the plug on OSDL, firing everybody but you from that cozy little gig up in Portland. Nothing like it when IBM shows you love, right? And nothing worse when they take that love away. Oh, it’s so cold, isn’t it? You’re just sitting there on the dunk tank platform in your Speedo, shivering, waiting to get dropped. Brother, I feel your pain. I’ve been there. Remember, I got fired by my own company, the company I founded. Same with you, right? You created this friggin Linux stuff (which I still haven’t tried but I’m meaning to, one of these days) and IBM rode the hype and pushed a lot of boxes and sold a lot of IGS engagements and got all sorts of great free publicity. Now they’re folding their tent. Seen any of those IBM Linux ads with the scary blonde Eminem kid lately? Me neither. No, IBM has moved on. They’re out looking for the next big craze that can sell loads of hardware and ridiculously expensive consulting engagements. As for you, well, they put you in a bear hug, squeezed all the juice out of you, and now they’ve sent you packing. I know, you feel like some chick who got a little drunk at a frat party and fell for some line of bullshit from some handsome clean-cut All-American football jock named Sam, and now it’s Sunday morning and your panties are missing and you’re doing the walk of shame across the quad with messed up hair and a broken heel on your fuck-me pumps and a little itch that you suspect might require a visit to the university STD clinic in the near future. Don’t feel bad. You’re not the first one. Lotus was once a great, sexy, exciting software company. In fact they were once bigger than Microsoft. No really. It’s true.

    I mean, sure, you’ve still got a nice little gig, sitting in your basement up there in Portland, staring at computer screens. And don’t worry, IBM will leave you out there for as long as you want, like the guy who stays behind on the space station when everyone else returns to earth. Keep cranking out your free code, and maybe they’ll even use some of it. Or maybe not. Payback’s a bitch as they say here in the U.S. and A. Because for years you’ve been turning up your nose at the code people at IBM and elsewhere were sending to you. Now there are as many different versions of the kernel running as there are users. Every bank on Wall Street runs its own version of Linux with their own mods that you didn’t want. Google doesn’t even bother sharing back anymore, at least not on the good stuff, from what Squirrel Boy tells me. Sure they’re happy to look at whatever you and your pals crank out, and they might even use some of it. But they’ve got what they need, and thank you very much for all your hard work, here’s your gold watch and if you need a reference we’re happy to write up something nice about you.

    Meanwhile your old pal Richard Stallman is making plans to kill Novell and frig you up too with his farkakte license; Red Hat is run by retards and analysts are freeting about its "viability"; Sun is making noise about giving away Solaris under GPLv3 which will add another touch of much-needed complexity and confusion to an already murky market; the wackos are all atwitter about dumping Linux and switching to Solaris or HURD or BSD; and Microsoft is watching all this with glee. Haven’t we seen this movie before? I think it was called Unix: Better, Yet Destined to Lose. (Except when harnessed by Apple Computer in which case it wins.) Oh, dude, the shame is that it all could have been so good, right? I mean, man, you were gonna change the friggin world. Yeah, me too. Instead I’ve got 3 percent market share. But at least I’ve got a few billion bucks in the bank to soften the pain. I know, you don’t care about money. All you want to do is sit in your basement and eat potato chips and write code, and you don’t care whether anyone uses it or not. So hey, things have worked out perfectly for you.

    But look. Squirrel Boy is probably gonna offer you a job, so you can move back to the Bay Area and hang out with your buddy Andrew. But if you want to come to Apple instead, and work on a real operating system, you’ve got my phone number. We’ll even let you work at home, and give you a couple of free iMacs, and some MacBook Pros for the kids. And we’ll buy you all the chips and non-diet soda you want. Whatever you like. Call me.

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  11. on 07 Apr 2009 at 1:48 amportieri

    First of all, congrats on the weight loss! And I’m totally with you…artificial sweeteners plague me! They always make me veer off my nutrition plans and I end up gaining weight because of it. Therefore I have tried to eliminate them completely, including diet sodas, fake desserts like fudgesicles, jello, etc. and it has helped tremendously. I’m like you, I want real food with real nutrition in it and not all these fake chemicals. You go girl!

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