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Right guys.  Just trust the process; the rest will take care of themselves.  Amy, if you back away from the scale (and don’t use it as a subconscious crutch) you may find that you adhere to the diet much better than you otherwise would.  Good luck!!  

AWESOME, Marie!  7 pounds in 3 days is BRILLIANT!!!  Doesn’t it feel amazing?  Doin…[Read more]

Yep.  But hang in there.  It gets better fast.  PLEASE, though, eat the same amount of food when you do eat.  Don’t vary the amount!!!  

Those numbers all look logical to me.  Again, your body loses about 8 oz of fat/8hours.  Variation is because of your scale.

Still, you are doing GREAT!  Keep up the good work.  Since you aren’t going to be weighing yourself while on vacation, make a point of just taking single bites of items of food.  Really go for the flavor, nothing else.  Tas…[Read more]

Marie – Great.  Fight the good fight.  Just one more hour …  Stay busy, keep your mind occupied with other things.  You’ve got this!!

Amy – Congrats!!!!  

I’m sure they do suppress your appetite.  Just don’t exceed 5-bites worth, and that IS your meal.

Great.  I think you will find this very informative.  

If the water is clear, it probably is mostly clear, and if I were to evaporate all of the water away in a frying pan there would be very little solute left in the pan.  So I’m OK with it.

Of course its OK to go an additional 8 hours without drinking, but you will probably be anxious to have some water when this “experiment” is over.  

How clear is the water?

But do you understand my point:  Your body loses roughly 10 oz of carbon (fat) through natural breathing every 8 hours.  That will never change.  So you, and only you, can determine what you are doing from the time you wake up till the next time you weigh.  Let me put it this way: if you were not to drink anything or eat anything from 6 am til…[Read more]

YES!  It is absolutely possible.  And with an impending wedding–a monumental lifetime event–you will be will super aware of everything you eat and don’t eat.  Great!  This will keep you focused.  You will eat extra at the rehearsal dinner, but that’s a ways off, and there is no reason that I can see now (an an outsider) why you should ever have…[Read more]

Cortisol may stimulate your appetite, but it certainly does not slow down your breathing.  So no matter how much cortisol your body produces, it won’t affect your weight.

As far as fluid (water), what goes in DOES come out, or it would build up around your ankles (first).  You would see it.  Prednisone can cause fluid retention, but more im…[Read more]

GREAT job, Amy!  Congrats!      

Hi Susan.

So here’s a quick summary of your body’s baseline metabolism and weight loss:

Wed, on 7 1/2 hours, you lost 1.5 oz (This had to be an error in your scale, as we shall see).  Thursday night on 6 1/2 hours, you lost 6 oz.  Friday night you lost another 6 oz after just 5 hours of sleep.  Saturday night, after a full 8 hours of sleep, yo…[Read more]

Right on, Susan!  You GET to have 10 amazing bites a day–10 bites!  That’s a lot of enjoyment!

Thanks for the info!!  

That’s funny, Amy!  

Great job, Rebekah!!  

Sorry, Cammie.  I, like you, haven’t heard from him in 3 years.  I wish him the best and hope that he is spreading the good word wherever he’s up to these days.  

Brilliant!