The Low Sacrifice‘ Diet’ 62 The trick was to take the time to identify which foods would trigger rebound over-eating if they were taken away and which ones would not – and thus the Low Sacrifice approach to weight loss was born. Is this food worth dying for? Sorting the foods you love from those you only flirt with Take a piece of A4 paper and turn it sideways(‘ landscape mode’) and draw two lines to create three columns. Head the first column‘ Low Sacrifice Fattening Foods’. Head the second column‘ High Sacrifice Fattening Foods’. Head the third column,‘ Healthy Foods I Like’. We are going to put all you like to eat, or want to eat, in these three columns. Now think about the fattening foods you eat and apply the following test with each one as it comes to mind: If I could never eat that food ever again, how much would that bother me? Since your weight will be a potential problem forever, you need to ask:‘ How big a sacrifice would it be to give them up forever?’ Try closing your eyes and just notice your emotional reaction to this question with each food. Let me give you an example from my own experience. Potato and jasmine rice were both foods I enjoyed regularly. They are both relatively fattening carbs because of their high glycemic load. But they were not foods that I felt particularly attached to, i. e. they were a low sacrifice to give up. On the other hand, chocolate fudge brownies, chocolate cookies or lemon meringue pie( which I had at lunch today) were foods that I was not prepared to avoid eating for the rest of my life – my‘ high sacrifice foods’. So it was no big deal for me to give up eating potato with my evening meal and switching from jasmine rice to a basmati rice and barley mix. A higher sacrifice for me would be potato in the form of French Fries. While I don’ t order them anymore, I do steal a few – depending on how good they are – from my kids’ plates from time to time. And when I do, I really savor them. More on savoring in the next chapter. The point I want to make here is that low sacrifice foods( LSFs) are those that you do not have a strong emotional attachment to: they are