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Disciplines | Watchful Sustenance for Monitored Women and Non-Participants

Preliminary information: Please read this page for a comment on the Project's approach to this and related disciplines.

he variable nutritional discipline used by the Project is very restrictive and difficult. This discipline, modified from that followed by some previous participants, is only partly intended to help make you more pleasing to others and therefore to yourself. Although weight loss is a likely consequence of living under this discipline in its unmodified form, strictly speaking, this is not a diet or a weight-loss program at all. It is instead best understood as a way of integrating discipline and an opportunity for obedience into one of the most routine aspects of your daily life, and by investing that routine activity with attention, elevate its meaningfulness. In its difficulty and its intrusiveness, it resembles all other disciplines used here in that it provokes mindfulness and requires accountability, especially if you are a monitored woman attached to our community. For those women, the discipline is a way of expressing how you should be fed: you will be given what you need and learn not to take more than has been offered to you.

The monitoring of this discipline is tedious and time-consuming. If you have been offered this approach to monitored sustenance, please remember that this discipline is a gift requiring an investment of time and attention on the part of the Project and on the part of your monitor. Lack of watchfulness in general and a lack of mindfulness to this specific discipline renders it meaningless to you.

This discipline, or approved modifications of it, is used by many monitored women in the community regardless of weight since its primary purpose is to nourish awareness, to help an obedient woman live fully in submission, and to learn how to place a desire for momentary pleasure behind a desire to be obedient, since it is obedience that yields the greater pleasure.

Modified Basic Nutritional Discipline

The Project’s Basic Nutritional Discipline is a guideline based on standard nutritional practices. If you are embracing this as a monitored discipline, you will be invited to suggest modifications applicable to your circumstance and goals. Other variations on the discipline may be assigned on an individual basis. It is expected that your health is robust enough to fully embrace this discipline as assigned. If there is a medical impediment to your obedience, please make this clear to your monitor.

If the objective approved for you is weight loss, obedience to this discipline should result in an average weight loss of one or two pounds per week. Please be accountable for your weight using the method suggested to you by your monitor, along with a complete inventory of all that you eat and drink.

Morning: One piece of whole-grain toast with butter or margarine. One egg or one serving of dairy. One serving of fruit.

Lunch: Unlimited green, leafy vegetables; broccoli, zucchini (courgette), cauliflower, green beans, cucumber and/or tomatoes—all without butter or oil. One serving of fruit. One serving of meat, fish or soy. One serving of dairy.

Supper: Unlimited vegetables (without butter/oil) as above. One serving of fruit. One serving of approved carbohydrates (may also be taken instead at midday; for portion size, see below). One serving of meat, fish or soy.

Throughout the day: One-half low-carb chocolate bar. One serving unsalted nuts. Three cups of coffee (artificial sweetener only). Two 12-ounce (355ml) diet sodas. One-half glass (90g) wine. Unlimited tea (artificial sweetener only).

Required: A minimum of 64 oz water and three vegetable servings and three fruit servings per day.

Serving sizes:

Dairy: 6 oz (177ml) milk. 2 oz (60g) cheese, 6 oz (180g) cottage cheese (low-fat). 1 small container yoghurt (low-fat, natural).
Fruit: one medium apple or orange, ¼ cantaloupe, ½ grapefruit, 6 kiwi, 6 strawberries or blackberries, 10 blueberries or raspberries, a small-medium banana. No raisins. No grapes. No watermelon. No applesauce, unless it’s unsweetened without any additives beyond apples. The potato is not a fruit.
Meat/fish/soy: 3 oz (90g).
Nuts: 1 oz (30g).
Carbs: Basmati or brown rice (only), al dente pasta: ½ cup. Boiled new potatoes, 100g.

NOTES: Green leafy vegetables—lettuce, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, radicchio, spinach, etc. Cauliflower: 1 cup. Not lima beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas, etc. Mineral water, soda water, seltzer and other clear, calorie-free waters may be consumed without limit. Low-sodium salt or salt substitute only. Low-sodium soy sauce permitted in moderation (less than 1t).

CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE UNDERTAKING ANY NUTRITIONAL OR FITNESS PROGRAM.

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A member's helpful note: “A great solution for American vegetarians on this discipline: Pete’s tofu2go. They’re baked, marinated tofu snacks, ready-to-eat and cut into portions. One serving size is 2 snacks (85 grams; 140 calories, 80 of which are from fat). It comes with a sesame ginger sauce (which I omitted with no trouble, since the snacks are very tasty). The sauce adds 20 calories (10 from fat).” –c.

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Last review: February 2008