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Exactly right.  Wait until you are across the finish line before weighing yourself on a more regular basis–to figure out how much intake is just the right amount for you.  For now, 5 bites will ABSOLUTELY guarantee weight loss at a good rate; I don’t want you jumping on the scale much, but rather all of your focus should be on JUST consuming 5 b…[Read more]

I LOVE that attitude.  One year from now, you will never look back and regret the food that you didn’t eat to get skinny.  I promise!  

That’s fine.  Remember: you ultimate weight will actually be based on how much (or how little) fat is around your belly.  When it’s gone, we’re done!  But that number is usually around a BMI of 18 or so.

I’m so happy to have you here!  Let’s do this!  

Great.  Your state of mind is what is most indicative of your future success.  With that attitude, I think you will do great!!  You can certainly lose more than 30 pounds in 1 month, and the faster you lose it, the HEALTHIER it is for you!!!

Let’s do this!!  

Hi Danica!  Welcome!  I’m thrilled you are here.

Would you please fill out the weight tracking info for me so I can personally guide you along this journey?  Thanks.

The most one can lose totally depends on your starting weight, but I’ve had several patients (women) lose close to 60 pounds in 1 month.

Good luck!!!   

Indeed, to you, Letileti, and Everyone: Happy Easter!!

Right on, Pia!  I do hope you feel better, but you are right: Use this opportunity to be perfect, as the food won’t taste very good anyway.

Think about this, Pia: volume wise, the extra bites you ate amount to relatively little extra volume, and today you certainly don’t remember the flavor of those extra bites (you’re still tasting the first bite), BUT you do feel that those extra bites let you down.  You didn’t live up to the expectations you set for yourself.  So was it worth it?  …[Read more]

Pia.  You are not missing out on anything.  In fact, your ONE bite of one food is so much more flavorful and impacting than any of their “full portion sizes.”  And you get to repeat that high-quality flavorful bite 4 more times at each sitting.  Subsequent bites of a given food actually dilute the clean, sharp memory of the first bite.  Don’t go d…[Read more]

But really, Pia, you’re not missing out on anything even while you are on this diet.  Yes the volume is small, but if you try and eat five different bites of food for a meal is seems to be quite a complete feast!  I really don’t want you to feel that you are missing out at all.  Right?   

Chewing gum is great.  So is [slowly] drinking hot coffee, hot tea, or just plain hot water.

Yep.  That’s exactly right.  That’s why I have the weight tracker.  It forces you to put down EXACTLY where you are at this point in time, and then we encourage you to improve up that quickly and dramatically.  I’m standing by your side encouraging you every step along the way to the finish line.  Let’s do this!  

OK, Beth.  Then let’s just commit and get this done.  Start today.  Eat your 10 bites a day (That’s TEN bites!!–10 different [really small] meals a day!  That’s a TON!!) and not a bite more.  Count down the days until you cross the finish line.  Drink water, coffee/tea, and take a multivitamin, and just do it!  You’ve done this before.  You k…[Read more]

I agree with Beth.  BUT, I do admit, most people are probably going to have a few extra bites on Easter.  It doesn’t need to be that way, but reality is that is probably is going to be that way.  If you feel that you just “have” to have more than 5 bites on Easter, then all the more reason to be perfect today for lunch, tonight for dinner, to…[Read more]

Right on.  

Right.  And once your hungerstat sets, you may venture into other foods for TASTE only.  Keep the volume the same.  Try tasting five different things for a meal.  Wow!  Will you remember those 5 spectacular bites!

Hi Pia!  Right.  But I truly believe that you will enjoy food MORE if you just taste a single bite of each item.  The flavors come alive when you eat just a single bite of it.  So, maybe, try and taste five different things for each meal.  Forget about the food you throw away–it’s value is meaningless when were are talking about the value of bein…[Read more]

Hi Megan.  What you said is correct, and I would ultimately defer to your Ob for advice on how much to gain during your pregnancy–when then time occurs.  But two things: 1. We know that thinner mothers have few complications that overweight mothers, and their babies are healthier, and 2. If you are overweight when you become pregnant, you need t…[Read more]

Hi Letileti!  I hope you and the baby are doing well!

I think you should gain roughly 12K overall–about 25 pounds overall.  I would think from this point you should gain another 17 or so pounds (another 7K).  But of course, discuss this with your doctor.  Congrats!