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This rule is not a real rule at all because it is your choice as to what you do with it. You don’t even have to make a rule if you don’t want. You can make this one fit in with where you are at the moment. My rule six, for example, is: ‘I only drink champagne’, which is great because it stops me drinking lukewarm wine at a party but if there is a special occasion, I am really up for celebrating.

I am hi-jacking this rule also as the ‘blindingly obvious rule’. You are too intelligent to really think that foods lathered in sugar, ice cream, fat, treacle, loads of high-fat dressings or marshmallows are healthy foods or magic foods that don’t count. Also, while a little of what you fancy does you good—seconds and thirds of chocolate or loads of red wine (whatever the French Red Wine Marketing Bureau has told you about the benefits of antioxidants), vats of butter and huge helpings generally will make you fat.

If you are casting around for a rule number six, one of the best things you can do is to do the following: ‘include a handful of low-burn carbohydrates with my evening meal’. Instead of having a huge great big plateful of the supporting carb with the evening meal, have a smaller handful of low-burn carbs. Slow burning carbs are things with skin on them, which are fibrous. Not white and fluffy foods like mashed potatoes.

Examples of slower burning carbohydrates are:

* Sweet potatoes	* Bulgar
* Brown basmati rice	* Chickpeas
* Buckwheat	* Lentils
* Whole grain pasta	* Beans
* Barley	* Sprouted seeds

Other whole grains would be fabulous, too, including the high protein seed quinoa.

If you are breastfeeding, you must have a goodly amount of slow burning carbs—you are burning 500 extra calories a day and need the energy. The rest of you can choose either to have a handful of slow burn carbs or not to have the big