Gray Sheet Diet

Nyleen said:

Has anyone used this for weight loss?

Years ago, I had a college roomate who did the grey sheet thing, and he
was as skinny as a rail. Smelled a little. Some form of ketosis? :-)

Jim

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1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplemental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

Nyleen said:

Has anyone used this for weight loss?

I'm sorry but what is this? 🙂 Do you have to eat nothing but newspapers?
No, really?

Huey

as i remember the grey sheet , it is a strict diet for an off shoot of
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS.

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Quoted message said:

Nyleen said:

Has anyone used this for weight loss?

I'm sorry but what is this? 🙂 Do you have to eat nothing but newspapers?
No, really?

Huey

readandpostrosie said:

as i remember the grey sheet , it is a strict diet for an off shoot of
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS.

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Quoted message said:

In May of 1966, the group [OverEaters Anonymous] as a whole, at their national conference, approved a pamphlet entitled, To the Newcomer. The pamphlet stated in part,
Abstinence in Overeaters Anonymous means abstinence from compulsive overeating. An eating plan is the method by which we abstain. The following is our suggested method of abstinence from compulsive overeating:
(1) Three moderate meals a day with nothing in-between; and
(2) Avoidance of all individual binge foods.
Overeaters Anonymous does not endorse any particular eating plan.

This was Overeaters Anonymous first officially sanctioned food plan, although many members lobbied the legislative body of O.A. to approve more stringent diet plans, like the ones found on the Gold and Green Sheets.
In the late 1960s, the Gold and Green Sheets were superseded by a new plan on the cheapest color to print on at the time, grey. The Grey Sheet became one of the most popular and controversial of all food plans distributed in Overeaters Anonymous. The plan called for complete abstinence from man-made sugars and starches and from any foods with more than a 10-percent carbohydrate content. (Appendix B)

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The Gray Sheet was the color of the paper that the "new diet plan" was
printed upon.

courtesy of :

http://www.shutitdown.net/text/oa.html

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplemental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

not trying to confuse anyone..........................OA does NOT sanction
or recommend ANY specific food plan. it encourages its members to work with
their physician, as it is an outside issue.
it is against their TRADITIONS.

readandpostrosie said:

not trying to confuse anyone..........................OA does NOT sanction
or recommend ANY specific food plan. it encourages its members to work with
their physician, as it is an outside issue.
it is against their TRADITIONS.

http://www.shutitdown.net/text/oa.html

In April of 1972, the founder of Overeaters Anonymous, Rozanne S., had
gained back so much of the weight that she had lost in the program that
she was fired from her position of O.A. National Secretary for not being
a "physical example of recovery." The next month, O.A.'s National
Conference approved three "disciplined" plans of eating-far stricter
food plans than the previous three-meals-per-day plan. The first plan
was the beloved "Grey Sheet," the no-refined-sugars, low-carbohydrates
plan. It was once again printed on grey paper. Although each of the
low-carbohydrate plans had slight variations, they were all variants of
the original Gold Sheet published in 1963. The 1972 National Conference
also approved a low-carbohydrates maintenance plan, as well as a second
plan based on the four food groups helped developed by Marilyn Moore, a
licensed nutritionist in East Los Angeles, California.

In 1977, Overeaters Anonymous dismissed all of the plans that had been
distributed years earlier and released in their stead a blue sheet
called "Suggested Abstinence Guide for Losing Weight." The Blue Sheet,
as it came to be called, officially replaced the Grey Sheet, but many in
the group were not happy with this change. With each successive change
in food plan, Overeaters Anonymous lost members to splinter groups. Even
today, almost 30 years after the Grey Sheet was replaced, a number of
groups still exist that are now non-affiliated with O.A. and base
themselves on the Grey Sheet. One is called "Food Addicts Anonymous" and
requires that its members abstain from eating sugar, flour and wheat.
(21) Another group, called GreySheeters Anonymous, has meetings in
locals as far-reaching as London and Tel Aviv and religiously follows
the O.A. Grey Sheet from 1972. (22)

By 1978, O.A. was starting to realize that the constant changes in
food plans and lack of flexibility were costing it members. In 1979 the
group released a book called The Dignity of Choice that was intended to
bring the splinter groups back to the fold by including eight different
food plans. The book did not succeed in its mission, however, and was
discontinued. In 1986, not only did Overeaters Anonymous stop printing
the book; the leadership requested that all groups return their unsold
copies to the group's headquarters. Around this time, O.A.'s attorney
also began sending cease and desist notices to groups that were
distributing non-approved food plans using quotations from O.A.
literature or printing the text of the 12 steps. These notices were sent
primarily in reference to the "Grey Sheet."

Complete information on the history of Overeaters Anonymous is
surprisingly hard to find. Because the group is based on volunteerism
and anonymity, there are very few official historical records about the
group. Much of what has been released officially has been later
discontinued. Moreover, in what appears to be an effort to maintain
their copyright and protect their interests, the group threatens anyone
who uses quotations from their literature or reprints the 12 steps with
legal action. As a consequence, a cloud of secrecy hangs over the group
and the history of Overeaters Anonymous remains largely unknown, even to
its own members.

In its 43-year history, Overeaters Anonymous has adopted numerous food
plans for its members. The group has discontinued, replaced, and
abolished food plans altogether on a fairly regular basis. With each
change the group makes to its food plans--ostensibly to bring unity to
the group--it loses many members to splinter groups that either find the
old ideas more acceptable, or the new ones distasteful. Overeaters
Anonymous is currently in the process of reissuing The Dignity of Choice
with six new food plans, a step that has already provoked considerable
in-fighting within the group's ranks. Perhaps because the group members
are unfamiliar with their own history, they are doomed to repeat it.

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplemental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)