Diet books

Lately I've been reading some Diet books for fun, including those books that every food item and how many calories it is. I know, could you read a nerdier thing? Some of the things in it are funny, like a fish taco is 231 calories. Overall the books haven't been too bad, but the thing I've noticied is that every paragraph or so they mention specific foods. For example, they will write, "You will make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. So when you can't resist that bagel smothered in cream cheese, it's okay. As long as you don't eat 10 of them."
It wouldnt' be so bad if they just had a couple of these laiden throughout the book, but they are literally on every page. So basically, all I want to do when I get done reading the book is eat everything they've mentioned. MMM bagels. MMM mozarella sticks. MMM ice cream. Pretty sure when I was done reading the book I actually went to cub foods and bought some bagels and ice cream. Thanks a lot 'YOU, on a diet." For ruining any chances that I had.
How are you supposed to eat less food if you know it's okay to make mistakes? This is how my diet would go, in real life, this is pretty much how it is:

Breakfast: fiber cereal
3 mistakes, -donut, pizza slice, and sugary starbucks coffee
Lunch: Orange, yogurt, 2 mistakes- chocolate chip cookies.
Dinner: pretty much mistakes. But hey, it's cool. I'm still on a diet.

What we really need are anorexics to write diet books. Now that's a good idea.

If anorexics wrote diet books that's when america would start losing weight. 'Look at that bagel. There are 300 calories in there. That's almost 1/10 of a pound. Don't you want to fit into those size 2 pants? WELl.. don't you!? Food is the devil. When you eat you are being weak. WEAK. Make ridiculous rules, (well i guess they wouldn't say ridiculous) Make Rules, like, this week, I'm only going to eat oranges. when you eat the same thing over and over again, your appetite for food decreases. you may start out with 5 oranges a day, but by the end of the week you may only want one, or not any at all because you are so damned sick of oranges. Using foods you detest are also a good idea, like if you hate sushi, tell yourself you can only eat that. It eliminates even the possibility of eating something else. and if you make a mistake, punish yourself. Such as, if you screw up and eat something, then you won't be able to talk to any of your friends that day. All you have to do after that is find yourself a model, For example the late jane fonda, or mary kay during her treatment phase. Find someone who is the ideal size and don't stop until you look exactly like them, or smaller. Oh yes, and one more thing, 74 is the perfect weight. '
Books like that would get me a whole lot farther on the diet plan than 'mistakes mcgee ' book.

A couple of my friends tried weight watchers once. I remember one of them told me a story once. I guess in weight watchers at each weekly meeting they have some sort of speaker come. That week they had this one lady, who basically said, 'People always think they just need to 'try' something, or have a little taste. Soon that little taste becomes and entire piece of cheesecake. All you need to do, is remember how everything tastes. It's so simple. I don't know why people haven't thought of it before. Just tell yourself, I don't need to try that, I can close my eyes and remember how it tastes.'
yes. remember how it tastes. What an excellent suggestion.
However there is a problem with that one as well. What if you don't remember? I mean, I know cheesecake tastes good, but I don't remember Exactly how it tastes. Or hamburgers. They are good too. I don't really remember exactly how they taste either. All I really remember what the taste is, is what I am currently eating, which is usually something... all of the time. Speaking of, I am going to go eat some pudding, being I just finished these crackers.
In conclusion, we need to go to eating disorder rehab centers and interview everyone, have them write down their strategies, or possibly some little secrets. Colace anyone?