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Great Katie!  Welcome back!

You recognize the importance of accountability to help maintain focus and your commitment.  You are in the right place!  But use this to complete your journey once and for all.

Just remember that as you get close to the finish line you start to feel really, really good, and you lose the incentive to find your magic nu…[Read more]

I love it.  Again, you are separating yourself from mediocrity.  But really, whose wants to live a mediocre life?

Right.  Emotional hunger is never satisfied with food–it is merely quieted for a few minutes.  So find some other way of handling that.  Physical hunger is controlled with exactly 5 bites once your hungerstat sets to that number.

Right.  It’s the first thread, highlighted in orange.

Right.  Remember most of EVERY pound lost on your scale is water.  60% of our bodies are water, and 60% of everything we lose is water, all the way through to the finish line.  But there is no reason that the pace you’ve set for yourself should change much.  Will it?  Yes a little, but not too much.  So, keep up the outstanding focus and just…[Read more]

Tammy.  It WILL work.  There is no other alternative.  BUT … you have to do it perfectly.  Then again … you CAN be perfect.  It will be tough and challenging at times, but it is absolutely doable.  Let me know when the struggles set in, and I will devise some techniques to help you get over those struggles.  

Welcome both of you to our great family!  

I like this.  I remind patients all the time that they have plenty of salad, vegetables, and fruits already stored in the body, and their is no point in putting more in.  I also have them practice some imagery: Envision yourself sitting down and consuming all kinds of food that you would like to eat.  Smell how fresh the food is.  Notice how coo…[Read more]

Why not leave the home on the weekends?  Go to the mall!  Take your son to the park!  But it does help to not have ready-to-eat food around.  But because it has to be (for him), get away from the house.

I have put together a talk on delaying gratification [and avoiding snacking].  The core points are these:

—Develop Clarity and Commi…[Read more]

Wouldn’t that be incredible?  Certainly, no extra bites at any meal (and of course nothing in-between meals) would be more satisfying that getting to your goal by Thanksgiving.  Whenever you feel like snacking or taking bite #6, think about how unbelievably extraordinary Thanksgiving dinner is going to be when you are super thin.  

Right.  So bear down and just do it.  Go hard and go fast.  A truly exceptional life (in all aspects) is waiting for you!!!

Great, Gayle!  You’ve got a gameplan.  My advice: try something different–something you would never order–from your dinner menu.  Pick something you really don’t like. If people ask why you are ordering something you’d never normally order, just tell them you are expanding your gustatory repertoire.  After a few bites, say something like, “we…[Read more]

Hi Tammy!  Welcome!  You are in a great place to get back all of the control you are looking for!

1.  I like to start of with bars for 1 perfect week.  I know (better yet, YOU know) what your potential weight loss is per week if you doing follow the diet exactly, and I think we all can do just bars for a mere week, right?     After that I lea…[Read more]

Hi Pia.  You weight in your weight tracker show 118.  (117.5 rounds up).  Is this right?  You may need to scroll down in the weight table to see your most recent week and weight.

Right.  Being skinny is unusual–exceptional, but different.  Some view it as abnormal–as if abnormal, based on the new normal, is bad.  In the case of weight, you WANT to be abnormal.  You want to be abnormally thin!

Great job, Pia!  And having a successful weekend is actually MORE enjoyable than “pigging out” throughout the weekend.  It’s hard to do for the first time, but once you do do it, you realize it’s really not that hard and very well worth it!  So right! — If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!

Right.  And ultimately and with time YOU and only YOU are going to figure out which number is best for your body.  But at least give 113 a test drive for awhile.  We’ll see.  Once again, you never need to apologize for being truly exceptional!  

Welcome back, Letileti!  You are amazing and have demonstrated phenomenal control throughout your pregnancy.  Did you have a boy or a girl?  Is this your first child?

Correct, Pia.  Commit to the finish line, then stay consistent.  If it takes two week, so be it.  But stay consistent hour in, hour out, day in, day out.

Right.  You can always have that (whatever that is) some other time.