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This is interesting. I tried a very similar strategy and I was able to maintain it for two months, and then I found that I would collapse unless I made general exceptions (such as "I can do it once a week" or "it's okay if I'm at a restaurant").
A similar idea is The No S Diet.
In my experience, I think it is key to only be strict in regard to your prohibitions (& must-eats).
For instance, if my prohibition is specifically against fast food restaurants, a bacon cheeseburger at a fast food place is 100% forbidden, but a bacon cheeseburger at a casual dining ("sit down") restaurant is okay.
In this way, while the caloric intake might be the same in either case for that particular meal, over time I cultivated a habit of not eating based on convenience and impulse and I was able to generally better plan my meals and gain dietary discipline.
Anyway, to your point, I agree that some exceptions are generally a good rule for dieting -- my strategy was to make everything an exception, apart from 3 or 4, 100% compliance* rules.
(*Disclosure: I did drink one soda that year. It was a business meeting where my job success [sort of] literally depended on me accepting a rather insistent potential client's beverage offer to keep the meeting headed in a positive direction...so I did. And I still didn't get the deal. Dammit.)