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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!  

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!