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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!  

I agree.  You are on your way.  Stay focused; stay sharp!  You have years of unconscious eating habits built up inside you; if you don’t stay sharp those habits will rear their ugly head again.  But I think you are on your way.  YAY!!  

Keep up the great work!  Are you feeling pretty comfortable with the program yet?

Welcome Amy!  I’m excited for you!  Let’s do this!!  

Correct.  There is no risk of harm from eating this way.  Recall that ultimately you are simply having a gastric bypass … WITHOUT the surgery.  Straight fasting, while exceeding difficult, is also healthy, providing you are getting a sufficient amount of water in and are not depleting your body of electrolytes.  Those few people who have die…[Read more]

Each one is 200 mg?  (= 2 cups of coffee)?

No.  Over a period of days, ALL water in = ALL water out.  SO, at no point do I want you to count the weight of water in your analysis.

If you look at your last evening’s weight loss, you went to bed at 162.0 and woke up at 161.0.  1 pound when you sleep at night.  Great!, and in theory that IS what your body loses in an 8-hour period of tim…[Read more]

You did great yesterday.  The reason why you didn’t lose as much as you were expecting must be because of salt in the food.  Still, that will wash itself out in a day or so, so no fear.  I expect big things to come!!  

Interesting tidbit:  By keeping this rigid weight journal, irrespective of the data it gives us, you’ve lost TWICE the amount you did last week!!!  GREAT going!  

GREAT, GREAT work, Susan!!!  

You are still moving forward at a good pace.  I’m completely content with the rate that you are losing.  Are you too?

I don’t subscribe to that theory.  

Not unless your body is deficient in it, which is unusual.