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That is so funny, and you are so right, CK!!    I often tell my patients that I feel like the 7-year-old kid in Hans Christian Anderson’s Fable, The Emperor’s New Clothes.  We want so badly to believe what diet companies are trying to sell us to make losing weight easier.  But the technicolor royal mantle (that only the righteous can see) doe…[Read more]

Jello is tough.  It become a liquid immediately, so it’s like drinking a soda–or a diet soda–or something in between.  Frankly, I don’t like it.  Instead, get your sweet fix, however you do it, in your five bites twice a day.  Let me ask you this:  Can you remember 10 individual bites of sweetness from just yesterday?  How about from the day b…[Read more]

Welcome Rosemarie!!

Not a thing.  Nothing changes.  But it’s great that you’ve had the experience of eating so little.  Now you can keep it going much longer–in fact, all the way to the finish line.  Instead of relying on sutures to control your appetite, you will learn an even stronger mechanism: your hungerstat.  When you’ve set it to a give…[Read more]

Oh my goodness.  All of the metabolic diseases that we know of that are associated with overweight and obesity–diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, dementia, asthma, GERD, arthritis, liver disease, kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, and ALL CANCERS, to name a few, creep into the middle and upper levels of the “normal” BMI range.…[Read more]

Agreed!

Love it!!

Sounds like a good plan.  I’ve got my fingers crossed that you can execute it exactly as planned.

No.  It should be OK.  If you undercut the amount you are used to eating at any given meal, you might feel a touch more hungry after that particular meal, but you will feel perfectly full in a half hour or so.  So, no harm no foul.

Sounds perfect.  Enjoy the flavors of the bites you take: really savor those flavors.  Appreciate the pop and snap of the grape and the apple; the smoothness of the mellow cheese and how it compliments the rye in the cracker, etc.  Love the flavors that you do eat, and toss the rest.  You are on your way!!!

GREAT advice, CK!!  I totally agree with you!!!  Simply brilliant.

Indeed!  On a small frame to begin with, 8 pounds is HUGE!  You are doing so, so well.  Isn’t this exciting?!!

Great!  I though we had a good chat.  I’ll post it tonight before I go to bed.

Welcome, Julie!  Thanks for sharing your story.  You are in the perfect place.  As you progress along this journey you will feel more and more energetic and motivated.  This program will literally transform your life.  I can’t wait to watch it happen!!

Have you started the diet yet?  If so, what are you eating?

EXACTLY right!  Wow!  It sounds like you are inside my head, Samantha.  The more perfect you are, the easier it is.  You are going to do GREAT!!!  I can’t wait to watch you finish this!!

hi Chip.  Welcome!   I assumed, as most of the people I work with here are women, that CK referred to another woman.  Your original goal weight is pretty good, but the 125 thought is probably too low.  We’ll shoot for something in between.  I can’t wait to help you get to this goal FAST.  Please review the message boards and the chats.  And it wou…[Read more]

Great to “see” you again, Sean?  Where are you living now?

Is your current weight 215?  Do you remember when you were 140-ish?  You’ve been both places in recent years.  What’s better: more food and your current weight, or less food and 140?  Honestly.  That’s the question we all battle with, and you must be honest with yourself when you decid…[Read more]

I love that Samantha!  I can’t wait to see you through to the finish line!!!

I love it!

We had a nice chat.  Stay warm!  Stay focused!