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THE BORING DIET.
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How fewer food decisions can simplify eating.

Decision reduction as a design tool — not a promise.


Most eating advice adds. Track this. Time that. Rotate this macro. Cycle these carbs. Buy the extra tool, run the extra check, log the extra number. The overhead is presented as sophistication. In practice it is drift disguised as work.

Removing decisions is a legitimate design choice. It is how uniforms work. It is how morning routines work. It is how airplane checklists work. Reducing the number of choices you have to make about a repeating problem is not a moral position — it is a way to spend the finite decision budget somewhere else.

Applied to food, decision reduction looks like this: the schedule is decided before Day 1. You do not decide breakfast. You do not decide lunch. You do not decide what to order. There is nothing to negotiate at 4 p.m. when the sugar craving arrives. The negotiation was already lost, on purpose, in advance.

This is not a claim about metabolism. It is a claim about attention. When food is decided, food stops being interesting. That is uncomfortable. It is also, occasionally, useful.

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The complete protocol — including foods, quantities and daily schedule — is inside the paid guide.