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Fantastic start, Sarah!   You’ll be over the hump soon enough, and then the rest of the journey will be smooth, comfortable, and fast.  I love it!  Thanks so much for sharing your inspirational story with us!!   Al

Fantastic start, Sarah!   You’ll be over the hump soon enough, and then the rest of the journey will be smooth, comfortable, and fast.  I love it!  Thanks so much for sharing your inspirational story with us!!   Al

Great, Elizabeth!  Now that you’ve come this far–1 pound down–can you keep the ball rolling forward.  Every moment that goes by without eating means that you are adding on to that 1 pound.  Then, at your next meal, be perfect.  You will walk away feeling incredible, and this further cements your losses.  Next thing you know, you are down 2 poun…[Read more]

I don’t know.  Try it and you’ll figure it out.  Five bites will get you to your goal, but once there you will have to find–with activity or no activity–a general sense of how much food you need to stay at that number.  You WILL figure it out, but there may be a trial and error period.  For now, enjoy being at goal and enjoy eating whatever you…[Read more]

I love this conversation you guys are having!

If your weight falls significantly, even eating only cholesterol-rich foods, your LDL will still fall.

YES!!  Your lipids will significantly improve: your LDL will fall, your HDL will rise, and your triglycerides will fall.  That is a guarantee.  NOW, some people still can’t get their LDL all the way to goal with weight loss alone; for a certain portion of the population genetics keep LDL high (although it still gets lower with weight loss).  T…[Read more]

Right!  Just do it!  1 week from now you won’t care less whether you ate gourmet food this week or bars.  But you will LOVE being down 8 pounds!!

Thank, thank, thank you all so much!!

Welcome back, Samantha!  YES–let’s all do this together.  We will each have greater individual success by working with each other and learning from each other’s experiences.  But let’s just do it!  5 bites, twice a day, and do it.  Don’t give in to the hunger: that’s like stepping off the treadmill just after you’ve started to work out.  The…[Read more]

OK!  Let’s refocus and see how many you can know out in this upcoming week.  Go hard, go fast!  You can do this!!

Right, Jennifer!!  You are in the zone!  Now that you are there, and realizing that those first couple of days of resetting your hungerstat are taxing, don’t change a thing!  For the love of yourself, please, please, please don’t change a thing until you cross the finish line.  It’ll be here before you know it!!!

Exactly.  But don’t fantasize about that achievement; make it happen!  AND, getting there is–dare I say it–fun!  After all, it’s just hunger.  You get five tastes of exquisite bites of food if you desire (but for this next week just Snickers only please), twice a day, and the rest of the time you sit back and let the breathing happen, all the…[Read more]

I love that advice, Chapinj!!

Wow!!!  Thanks Jamie (and others?) for the shoutout!!

Love that!!  Keep up the amazing pace!!!

Again, GREAT JOB, Stephanie!!

Great, great, great!!  

It will!!   Keep up the great work!!

Thanks for the reminder!