The Discipline Diet

Mr. James, Oslo, September 2019, © Jacqui James 2022

The clue is very much in the title, not to mention the photograph!

Since 2017, my Head of House and I have been experimenting with the use of corporal punishment to support successful weight-loss.

As a former sportswoman I am very experienced in how to get in shape for; cup finals, trials, fitness tests, the new season and even the odd theatre role. No canes required!

However, as one passes one’s physical peak in terms of VO2 MAX¹ (or maximal cardiovascular output), it becomes less and less likely that one can completely ignore diet and instead hope to ‘burn off’ all of the calories one consumes.

As the body ages, it isn’t possible to use an ‘exercise only’ strategy to stay in top shape, which will please those who loathe exercise.

As such we’ve been looking for a mechanism that really works over the long term and The Discipline Diet is the culmination of years of research, food logs, exercise journals, sore backsides and much, much more!

I have experimented on myself on-and-off for six years and have finally distilled that which really counts for getting down to and maintaining a ‘fighting fit’ weight.

It’s remarkably simple not least because I’ve already made all of the mistakes on your behalf!

The Discipline Diet

Requirements:

• A reputable professional disciplinarian or a disciplinarian who is either your partner or is someone you have known for a long time

• A willingness to genuinely submit to painful discipline

• A mature attitude to personal development

• A thorough understanding of the difference between punishment and ‘funishment’

• A genuine desire to lose weight

• A willingness to keep records of weight, food intake and exercise (if applicable)

Disqualification factors*:

1. You have snowflake tendencies

2. You like to blame others for your own short-comings

3. You now have, or have previously had, an eating-disorder

4. You have never tried Corporal Punishment and/or dieting before

5. You have a psychological impairment of any kind

DISCLAIMER (mainly for our American friends)

Jacqui James is not a doctor, psychiatrist, nutritionist, dietitian, physician, personal trainer or anyone of any significance what-so-ever in the medical, health and/or wellbeing industries. She is a private individual sharing her personal experiences predominantly for entertainment purposes and any attempt to follow her advice is not recommended.

That said, what I share here enables me to maintain a very healthy weight, athletic physique and a balanced and natural (if slightly unconventional) lifestyle!

The Discipline Diet Instructions

• Agree with your disciplinarian on an amount of weight you will lose each week.
  My target is 1.0 kg (2.2 lbs) per week until I am at an acceptable weight. I then reduce the target, with the permission of my HoH, to 0.7 kg per week until I reach a good weight for me, at which time I may elect to continue with the diet at a rate of 0.5 kg of weight-loss per week until I reach ‘fighting fit’.

• Keep meticulous notes of everything you eat, drink and do.
  Use a paper diary so that it is easy to scribble down what happened that day and you can take it anywhere, it’s discreet and it won’t run out of battery! This is what you will refer back to for inspiration post-discipline. The perfect weight-loss formula FOR YOU (and no one else on the planet) is contained within that precious information.

• Arrange for a weekly session with your disciplinarian; same day (and time) each week if that’s possible.
  Final weigh-in of the week takes place the morning of your session. If you have failed to make weight (achieve the 1.0 kg weight-loss, or whatever amount has been previously agreed upon) then you can expect the following:

Consequences for failure to make weight

• 6 cuts with the cane for failure to make weight

• + 1 cut for every 0.1 kg ‘off target’ for the week

E.g., If my starting weight is 60.0 kg, I must reach 59.0 kg by the following week (assuming my target is a weekly loss of 1.0 kg). If I ‘weigh-in’ at 59.1 kg, then I will receive the following award from my disciplinarian; 6 + 1 = 7 cuts of the cane.

Consequences for gaining weight

• 12 cuts with the cane for gaining weight

• + 1 cut for every 0.1 kg of weight gained that week

E.g., If my starting weight is 60.0 kg, I must reach 59.0 kg by the following week (assuming my target is a weekly loss of 1.0 kg). If I ‘weigh-in’ at 60.1 kg, then I will receive the following award from my disciplinarian; 12 + 1 = 13 cuts of the cane.

Rewards

If you lose MORE than your target in any one week, it gets ‘knocked off’ next week’s target, this is so that you don’t try and lose too much weight too quickly. Hitting your target on the nose, or slightly bettering it is good, going beyond it by too much or too often could work negatively in the long run.

For most people, getting in shape takes many, many months not just a handful of weeks, hence having a long-term system such as this is far superior.

Why does this work?

These consequences have been whittled away at since 2017 and the rules of engagement have by now reached the “nth” iteration, which is to say that we have spent many, many hours boiling down the most effective system to ensure consistent (and frankly stunning) weight-loss over time.

It is ALL about the consequences; if each and every cut of the cane is really made to count, as they should always be, you are unlikely to fail on more than three consecutive occasions.

Based on previous experience, lining yourself up for a third disciplinary caning in just three weeks is terrifying. The last time this happened to me, in 2017-2018, I was already heavily bruised from the previous two weeks and staying down for the third caning on the bounce was one of the most painful experiences of my entire life.

Not something I ever wish to have to repeat… but would if necessary.

I knew in those moments that something had to change as I simply couldn’t bend over for another caning the next week.

The primary ingredients to this diet are; a willingness to accept painful correction, a disciplinarian who is dispassionate when administering discipline and careful note-taking, so that when you decide you simply can’t handle another caning, you have good information to base next week’s culinary decisions upon.

Being caned for failure makes you make better decisions. Period.

There are a glut of hints and tips that I will gladly share with you in The Discipline Diet - Additional Advice and Guidance; things that I have learned the hard way and the very hard way.

However, before you go looking there, here are 3 key things to consider about all kinds of diet:

• All diets are founded on some version of calorie reduction

• All humans are different; one man’s water is another man’s wine

• Almost all diets fail due to a lack of (self)discipline

The Discipline Diet ‘cuts’ through all of these inherent problems with ‘dieting’ because you can eat whatever you like on this programme. That’s because I know that once you’ve suffered enough canings on consecutive weeks, you WILL start to make more intelligent choices in the kitchen!

This diet caters for those who are willing to use corporal punishment for genuine personal/professional development. It is ‘wine’ to some spankos but water to ‘vanillas’ (they would probably have some far choicer words for it too!)

This diet won’t fail due to a lack of self-discipline, because real (harsh) discipline is provided in lieu of it.

Maintenance

Whilst in the losing weight phase of The Discipline Diet, weekly maintenance is maintained. (N.B. This diet is also equally effective in the maintenance of a healthy/seriously hot weight, once the subject has attained their target weight; more on that in due course).

What do I mean by maintenance?

In our household the Taken in Hand (TiH), yours truly, is disciplined once per week by the Head of the House (HoH). This physical discipline is simply there to ensure good order is maintained and to make certain I don’t get any grand ideas! Misbehaviour of any kind is punished in addition to maintenance.

Each Sunday, I receive the following discipline:

• An Over-the-Knee (OTK) hand-spanking

• 6 with the slipper

• 6 with the leather paddle

• 6 with the crop

- This is correct as of 31st July 2022 (maintenance occasionally changes slightly).

All strokes with implements are well delivered and the idea is that I suffer somewhat but not so much as to leave damage that will last longer than 1-3 days… unless I have been caned, of course!

Things to remember

Eat what you want because after your first one, two, (or for the really slow learners like me; three) canings, you’ll miraculously make wiser food and beverage choices entirely of your own volition.

Keep notes on everything you eat, drink and do (activity and/or exercise) this should be a notebook or diary, so that you can take it with you anywhere and it does not require batteries!

Weigh yourself every day. Yes, I know ALL the other advice in the world tells you to *NOT* do that, but have you considered why? Why do they say that? It’s a matter of psychology; because weight-loss isn’t usually linear ‘weight-loss experts’ don’t want you to be discouraged by not losing any weight despite eating healthily on any one particular day.

However, I find knowing what I weigh each morning enables me to figure out which food and drinks crush my attempts at weight loss and which delicious things I can eat plenty of and lose weight effortlessly.

There are billions of combinations of different foods, drinks and bodies, so it stands to reason that all successful diets - the WHAT you put down the cakehole - will be different for every single person on the planet.

It’s horses for courses, which is why the diet, health and fitness industries are all fraudulent. They are trying to sell a mass-produced diet or fitness programme to individual humans who have individual bodies, histories and an infinite variety of medical issues, injuries and psychological make-ups.

If you are robust enough to take your underwear down for a bare-bottom caning, you can handle knowing precisely how much you weigh every day without blubbing about it!

The Discipline Diet is pretty much only for spankos and only those spankos who use real world discipline for real world gains at that. It’s niche of niche and never tells anyone what to eat, drink, or how much they should exercise.

Each to their own and all that!

The only rules are;

1. Agree a weekly weight-loss target

2. Accept the painful cuts of the cane when you fail

3. Keep excellent notes for reference

As you can see, these ‘rules’ are simply to ensure that a lack of self-discipline doesn’t sabotage your efforts - the rest of it is down to individual design.

If you stick to the three rules above, you’ll eventually crack the code for yourself and you’ll have that unique formula FOREVER.

No exercise is necessary for weight-loss, though it will help speed things up, so long as exercise doesn’t make you feel like you ‘deserve’ to eat anything afterwards. You don’t.

I’ve never failed to lose the required amount of weight for a period of longer than 3-weeks as the pain is simply too much. Turning up for a spanking, cropping, paddling, slippering and caning - already heavily bruised from the last week - is salutary in the extreme.

It’s why this diet never fails - so long as you submit fully and your disciplinarian consistently delivers, (which will almost certainly be the status quo in your relationship anyway) it will work.

“Pain is quite possibly our greatest teacher of all.”

*RECOMMENDATIONS: If you think you are tough enough to try this out at home, then we genuinely do not recommend submitting in this manner to a disciplinarian unless:

a) they are a well-known and highly respected professional

and/or

b) you have lived with them for at least 18-months and preferably 3 years or more.

Why?

Because dieting is a thoroughly individual ‘sport,’ it is challenging at the best of times and this method is for hard arses (no joke!) and the strong of mind and will.

In addition, your chosen disciplinarian must know how your body works and must have a significant amount of historical data regarding your ‘average weight loss potential’, your actual (not dreamed up) activity levels, your ability or otherwise to exercise, your goals and your psychological history.

If you have had any kind of ‘eating disorder’ then you need to fix that with a doctor or appropriate medical professional BEFORE you are fit to work on something like this with a disciplinarian. [The same goes for any psychological disorder - see the doctor first, if nothing else then for your disciplinarian’s sake!]

Disciplinarians are special people; it is not okay to secretly ditch your psychological disturbances on them unless they are:

a) in FULL possession of ALL of the facts

*AND*

b) are willing to work with you in this way despite your previous troubles in this area.

Please forgive these serious notes and disclaimers, I don’t like to lecture my wonderful people, however this kind of thing is certainly not for beginners - of either dieting or corporal punishment/domestic discipline/physical discipline. Nor is it for those with any kind of psychological disorders.

It is also potentially dangerous if placed in the wrong hands, so remember; SAFE, SANE & CONSENSUAL; strong, open and honest communication is *NOT* optional, however the timing of such communications is, of course, for each partnership to agree upon.

For example, the time for a discussion on ‘justice’, ‘weight-loss targets’ and ‘pain thresholds’ is not in the middle of a punishment session! Just saying.

I am, of course, always willing to answer any (polite) questions and to offer my advice based on the last 5 to 6 years of experience of this particular dieting strategy. Please leave your questions in the comments section and I will respond ASAP.

Please also read this before attempting anything I have written here: https://jacquijames.substack.com/p/the-discipline-diet-additional-advice

Finally, after a long bout of ill-health related to screen-time, posture, excessive work load and a horrid knee injury, I’ve just been cleared to do as I please with regard to diet and exercise.

So, I’m putting myself back through The Discipline Diet and I am going to share ALL of the gory details here with you each and every Monday!

How’s that for putting one’s bottom where one’s mouth is?

Bottoms Up!

Jacqui James
Live-Lash-Love
The Discipline Diet: https://jacquijames.substack.com/s/the-discipline-diet

PS. If you don’t like reading diet/exercise related content (even from a spanky perspective), then you can either ignore anything with the subject head ‘The Discipline Diet - Report #X’ (which will usually come out on Mondays) and instead keep up with my usual ‘The Discipline Diaries’ which will be published on Wednesdays.

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1. VO₂ max refers to how much oxygen your body can absorb and use during exercise