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Great job.  You are learning how to control your weight perfectly.  I love it.  But please–as often as possible–eat just 5 bites twice a day.  It’ll will make everything so much easier in the long run!

Welcome back, Gayle!  Let’s do this!!

Fantastic!  Keep up the momentum!!

The mind is an incredibly strong, miraculous thing.  Your mind is in a perfect place right now.  Keep it going and power through the tough times.  When you look back on those tough times, you will feel SO GOOD that you didn’t give in.  There is nothing that feels as good as it does to stick with this program as it’s designed!

I love the sounds of that.  Don’t let off the oars, and don’t rock the boat!!

Great, Samantha.  Focus on the process and the journey.  The journey itself is really fun when you do this right.  It’s like working: If you love what you do for work, you never have to “work” a day in your life.  If you love the process of losing weight (which I truly believe you will do if you stick to this program perfectly), the process won…[Read more]

Great!!  Right–the feeling that you get when you keep your perfect streak going is FAR better than the any amount of eating!  Don’t break your streak!!

This all looks very exciting.  Try not to change a thing–ever–until you have completed the journey.  It will be one of the greatest achievements a human being can ever make!

Great job.  And honesty, does it “taste better” to be perfect that to eat food.  Think about how you felt after dinner last night.  You successfully fended off the temptation to eat extra food.  Didn’t that make you feel so in-control and GOOD?  And that feeling lasts–much longer than the flavor of any particular food.  You are doing great; your…[Read more]

Brilliant!  I am so happy to have you here.  This time we are going to go all the way, OK RSikes!!

So, when did you start the diet again, and what have you eaten since you started.  How has it worked for you?  Or, are you starting the diet today?

Shelly,

I think it is important to appreciate hunger for what it is.  It is an annoying feeling–truly painful at times–that means GREAT things are happening inside the body.  This dichotomy toys with our emotions, but you can develop a new relationship with hunger, and hence change your emotional attachments to it.  Hunger is the only thing th…[Read more]

Hi.  Sure, you can do just Breakfast and Lunch, but 2 things:  1. nothing else!  (no snacks, etc).  and 2.  The two meals need to be separated by at least 4 hours.  Otherwise, sure! … Go for it!

EVERYTHING is sugar, or some other arrangement of carbon atoms that become sugar when reassembled in your stomach.  Your biggest weakness–all of our…[Read more]

Welcome back, Shelly!  So good to see you again!  Yep, I’m right here to support you 100% on your journey.  Start today, and let’s see how much you can reinvent yourself before that big surgery date.  I’m sorry to hear about the need for it.  I might even suggest, though, that losing the weight could prevent the need for surgery.  I guess we’ll see.

No.  Please forget about calories.  It is about volume.  500 calories of one meal can be a very different volume from another item of food, and you’re hungerstat won’t set right.  Please eat a given number of bites irrespective of the calories consumed.

Right.  And like quitting smoking, once you make that commitment, follow through on it.  Begin practicing perfect bites on Monday.  You will be hungry–and crabby–but look forward to it.  Challenge your body to make you so “hangry” that you break down and eat extra, and then NO WAY are you going to let your body win!!

My thought: look forward to being crabby.  The hungrier you are, the crabbier you are, the more fat you are losing.  LOVE IT!!

Oh … I love that.  You are my hero!  Keep up the GREAT work!!

I love your attitude, Maria.  Absolutely brilliant.  I can’t wait to see how this week goes for you!!

Yes you can!  And yes you will be able to do all of those things again!  The future is so bright and exciting!!

Your Burger King experience was a good challenge, and you tackled it beautifully!  You’ve totally got this!!  You can avoid Burger King or not.  It really doesn’t matter, because you’ve got control–whether you realize it yet or not!

The first part is exactly right.  Control your hunger by eating only 5 bites for a meal.  You will establish a rhythm of only getting hungry before you meals and filling up on just your five bites.  You can ignore all of the rest of the food around, and you will be able to do it comfortably.

Yes!  Let’s do the chat on Mondays.  I always init…[Read more]