Larry "Fats" Goldberg, 69, New York restaurateur, food writer and author who devised a system of "controlled cheating" to lose and keep off 175 of his 325 pounds, died Monday in his native Kansas City, Mo., of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Beginning in the 1960s, Goldberg started three restaurants in New York that he named Goldberg's Pizzerias. He created his own recipe for pizza that was rated best in the city by New York magazine. A dedicated consumer of food who considered eating "entertainment," Goldberg also wrote food columns for the New York Daily News.
But he may have gained his greatest fame for losing weight and keeping it off for more than 30 years. His friend, Calvin Trillin, wrote about the remarkable effort for the New Yorker magazine, and Goldberg described his struggle in several books and talks while repeatedly admitting that "dieting stinks."
Among his books were "The Fats Goldberg Take It Off and Keep It Off Diet Program" in 1981 and "The New Controlled Cheating Weight Loss and Fitness Program" in 1992.
I prefer Larry's first book. The basic premise of his books are eating a low enough calorie amount for 6 days, creating a deficit, and then one day per week eat whatever you want. From accounts found on-line and within his books, it sounds like this free day is somewhere between 2200-3000.
I've incorporated CC (controlled cheating) into my lifestyle, which fits in nicely with JUDDD. The CC plan is almost identical to "The Spike Diet" except that Larry doesn't have all of the scientific data that the Spike guy does.
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Controlled Cheating diet summary in Stages - basic plan:
GCC = Goldberg Controlled Cheating day. Basicly means a free day of eating whatever you really **want** to eat, as much as you want... No BOZO eating. :)
BOZO eating= eating ginormous amounts of food, stuffing your mouth full of things you don’t really care about eating, just for the sake of eating.
Stage 1: 14 days low calories Induction, 1 GCC day
Stage 2:6 days low calories
1 GCC day, repeat till 3/4 to goal weight
Stage 3: When 3/4 to goal:
2 GCC days a week
(2-3 days in between each GCC) other 5 days low calories
Stage 4:Goal Weight
3 day plan:
2 day low calories, 1 GCC repeat indefinitely to maintain for life
Stage 5: At goal Weight for 12 weeks:
7 day free GCC vacation
Stage 6: After 7 day vacation:
6 down day low calories, 1 GCC , then Back to 3 day plan (Stage 4) Weight gradually returns to normal on its own)
BOZO eating= eating ginormous amounts of food, stuffing your mouth full of things you don’t really care about eating, just for the sake of eating.
Stage 1: 14 days low calories Induction, 1 GCC day
Stage 2:6 days low calories
1 GCC day, repeat till 3/4 to goal weight
Stage 3: When 3/4 to goal:
2 GCC days a week
(2-3 days in between each GCC) other 5 days low calories
Stage 4:Goal Weight
3 day plan:
2 day low calories, 1 GCC repeat indefinitely to maintain for life
Stage 5: At goal Weight for 12 weeks:
7 day free GCC vacation
Stage 6: After 7 day vacation:
6 down day low calories, 1 GCC , then Back to 3 day plan (Stage 4) Weight gradually returns to normal on its own)
More reading on Larry:
http://www.pitch.com/news/article/20611996/the-skinny-on-fats
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1973/12/30/page/106/article/fat-larrys-diet-resolution
