drlewis

Yes indeed!  I LOVE that attitude!!!

I like that!  You can start collecting tiny meals.  See how many new, tiny, complete meals you can come up with!

Right on!

Exactly right.  I’ve used the same comparison to commitment with my own patients.  You NEED to be 100% committed, not just as a challenge, but because, by definition, it is a commitment!

Yes, it’s possible.  I had two sisters as patients, both near 300 pounds, who lost 50 pounds in the first 2 weeks.  It is possible, but it requires: 1. extremely good will and discipline, and 2. enough excess fat on the body to begin with.  You are too light to lose 45 pounds in 2 weeks, but you could do it in a month!

Yes you will.  And it’s worth it.  So take it day by day, meal by meal, and find a way to execute each meal perfectly.  You can totally do this!!

Yes.  Absolutely.  But like a game of golf where every shot counts, every bite counts in this game of life.

I like that, Smaro.  You are doing the best with what you have under the current circumstances.  When we eat, our objective is to taste the food that’s sitting on the plate in 5 perfect bites and then to throw everything away.  I KNOW the food is good and you want more, but within just 5 minutes of throwing the excess food away you will feel fa…[Read more]

Rachel,  You can make that happen.  Easily.  But you’ve just gotta do it.  Honestly, if it means enough to you, why NOT eat just a bar twice a day until you get to your goal?  Why not?  After all, will you remember any of the other food that you eat along the way?  I doubt it!  And again, as I always say, you can eat whatever once you are thin.  …[Read more]

Sure.  Of course.  The key is to eat something of the same size and volume until your hungerstat is set precisely to that amount, then you are free to eat anything you want as long as it, too, is that exact same amount (5 bites worth of food).

Hi Angela!

You can absolutely lose an intense amount of weight if you put all of your efforts into following the diet.  If you are that serious about achieving a state of health and fitness utopia (and everyone should be!), you are definitely in the right place.  You’ve had success with this diet before, but now let’s push it to the extreme.  …[Read more]

That’s huge.  A really good day can start a momentum shift that will ultimately take you across the finish line.  Now that you’ve got one perfect day under your belt, and knowing that the second day should be even easier, make it happen.  From now on, and until you are skinny, stop eating after 5 bites.  You won’t remember the 6th bite tom…[Read more]

OK.  What’s done is done.  The great thing is you didn’t have much of a set back.  So, start fresh today!  As soon as you finish your first meal having stopped at exactly five bites, you are going to feel GREAT!  You’ll feel like you didn’t miss a step.

Maybe go and take a long pre-bed bath.  Read a book.  Just get away from the kitchen!!

I agree.  You do feel, cleaner, sharper, and healthier right from the get-go when you do this diet … and when you feel a little “empty.”  It’s a really healthy, GOOD feeling!!

No, it really doesn’t happen.  You still breathe the same rate that you always breathe.  If you body were to “adapt” to your intake and you were to stop losing weight, then you must also breathe out much more slowly and infrequently.  That just doesn’t happen.  It would also imply that all of your internal organs are suddenly functioning at a mor…[Read more]

Yes, Smaro: good job.  I now understand (I replied to your 5-pound weight loss before I read this thread.)  If you are comfortable on 20 bites, how about decreasing that number to 10 this week?

You are breaking YEARS of habit and eating patterns; it’s tough!  Sip on hot water at the night wanes on.  After your five bite dinner, start chewing gum and chew it through the night.   Close your eyes and imagine how you are going to look at the finish line; that should help you muster the extra will you need to avoid eating.  But PLEASE fin…[Read more]

GREAT!  And remember that, ultimately, GERD is a result of weight.  Even before Prilosec (which works great) the first-line therapy for GERD is weight loss!