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Welcome, Jackie!

Wow! Great intro. It sounds as if this is the perfect place for you, and I can wait to work with you and see your results. They are going to be GOOD!

A calorie is a calorie–it doesn’t matter what form it enters the body. If you eat exactly 560 calories for every meal, and have just 2 of them a day, and assuming you breathe out 1500 calories worth of carbon a day, you will lose roughly 1000 calories a day. But because 560 calories of one meal is so vastly different in size from 560 calories…[Read more]

Undoubtedly, this is the best birthday gift you could possibly have gotten. Now, let’s have some (dare I say it?) FUN and complete this extraordinary journey! I can’t wait until you cross the finish line!!!

Al

Madeleine,

That’s it! There is no other ideal standard to measure the fat around the belly other than to pinch it! Realistically, I can pinch about 1/4 of and inch, and that’s perfect for me. I want EVERYONE under 1 inch, but some people feel more comfortable with a little more excess fat on their body that others. From a purely scientific…[Read more]

Thanks for putting this out there. Yep! There’s great for so many reasons, but the big one is that they set your hungerstat PRECISELY!

Al

Hi Sheila,

Yes. It was a connection problem on your end. But try again next week. This is your life and future at stake, and I am so looking forward to help you get to your goal!

Shiela!

I SO LOVE to hear that determination and commitment. You KNOW this is the diet that will work for you–now we just need to find a way to keep you focused. But the biggest obstacle–getting your own mind in the game–you’ve already conquered. Great. Now just come here often and let me and everyone else here keep you focused all the way…[Read more]

Oh No! I’m afraid–but I don’t know how–that I may have been the culprit. I’m SO sorry, Robin, but after I responded to one of your posts in this thread last night everything turned grey. I have to think that somehow, someway I must have pushed the wrong button and deleted your posts. I’m so sorry!

Better yet, do it EVERY DAY of the week, set your hungerstat so that you don’t have to dread those “fasting days”, and just finish this extraordinary project. Why put yourself through torture like that?

Dunno. I would be very interested in hearing how they are doing too. But I imagine that those who TRULY want to lose weight have done/are doing fantastically well!

TB –
Just click on the entry, then it will take you to that thread.

Damage–no, not that we know of. But (and I say this often), there are probably a bunch more usable carbon atoms in “diet” or “0-calorie” drinks than are acknowledged. For this reason, you may find that drinking a lot of diet soda makes losing weight harder than drinking black coffee.

Very uneventful. I was the only one who didn’t forget.

Awesome!!

Yes!!! I love this idea! I want to see pictures of everyone’s left over food just before you dump it in the trash. What a collection this is going to be!

Fantastic, and welcome back! It would be an incredible birthday gift to you to finish the project this time. Imagine how incredible you would feel and BE! I may hardly ever need to see you! (Not that I wouldn’t love to see you, but my goal is to help patients become so healthy that I don’t NEED to see them much.)

Anyway, it sounds as if…[Read more]

Perhaps … I don’t know of this study … but a slow metabolism is certainly a more efficient metabolism, and this would (in theory) help you to live longer. But certainly, any extra benefits from a slow metabolism out vastly outweighed by excess fat, so your first objective should be to get thin. Then, if you are at your ideal weight AND your…[Read more]

Thank you for this nice note, Janette. I am truly thrilled for you, and wish you the greatest of success in your career. I am also thrilled that you discovered the true power of this program: It lets you achieve your dream weight, your way, through doable means, and if you “accidentally” put on a few pounds over the Holidays, the 5BD gives you…[Read more]

It shouldn’t matter. Cooked foods may actually have LESS carbon in it, if the boiled water leaks some carbon out of the food. And it’s all carbon in, carbon out. If you like the idea of eating raw foods as opposed to cooked foods, then fine. Eat raw foods. But don’t have more than five bites, total, for lunch and dinner. Good luck with…[Read more]

Oh well. No biggy. Just reset your hungerstat starting tomorrow, and you are back on your way!