Tanya

How about 5 of the bite-sized Reese’s peanut butter cups?

Great!  

I’m hoping that recording all of this is keeping you as true to the plan as you’ve implied.  If you were to sneak extra bites, you’d mention them, right?  

Very good!  

Wonderful!  AND, heat increases your metabolism (a little), so bundling up and staying warm is always a good thing.  Being warm is also a good appetite suppressor.  GREAT!

Brilliant!  Simply brilliant!!  Now honestly–how hard is it?  Is it worth it?

I LOVE that attitude, Rebekah!  Maybe it takes 3 weeks of perfection.  21 days to extend your life by YEARS!  It is well worth the sacrifice!  

Most bars contain an adequate amount of protein.  What kind of bars are your favorite?

Welcome, Laurie!  I’m all in in support of you!  Let’s do this!

Can you imagine just how amazing your life is going to be when you are 116?  Can you imagine it?  Now all you have to do is stay true to the diet today, and then tomorrow, etc., and that fantasy WILL come to reality!  Isn’t that awesome!  And every second that you are not swall…[Read more]

Right.  

Great.  Would you rather eat a different kind of bar of about the same size?  I’m good with that too!  

Great!  Relatively speaking, it doesn’t take too many more of those before you are done, done, done!!  

It looks like you are doing great, Susan!  Are you truly avoiding all other nibbles?

Right.  So let’s do it!  It’s just hunger and overwhelming temptation (at times), but that’s it.  You are not combating the much more challenging consequences of too much weight: diabetes, kidney failure, liver failure, cancer.  Put in that perspective, hunger and temptation seem rather easy to deal with.  

And, if you really want the look…[Read more]

Brilliant, Brenda!  I and we are here for you.  I’m so sorry about the extreme challenges you’ve faced.  Now, though, is a perfect time to re-invent who you are.  It starts with getting thin and healthy–TRULY healthy–and it starts today.  What bars are you having?  How do they taste?  How long after the last bar does your hunger last?  When…[Read more]

Indeed, indeed, indeed!  That is why I also like journaling your bites at home when you are not here (but do both!).   The more eyes, including your own, watching you, the better you will do.  I am watching ALL of you ALL THE TIME!  

This is great.  It also helps when you are conflicted about “trying” something that’s just sitting there: You are going to have to document it if you do.  “Hmmm.  Come to think of it, it isn’t worth it!  I don’t want to have a lasting record of THOSE bites!”  

Brilliant.  Just take this weekend hour by hour.  Break it down into 15-minute segments if you want.  Drink your coffee, and find something to entertain you.  But keep fighting until you make it through to the next segment.  Then repeat.  I am very encouraged by what you’ve written!  

Right, Katie!

This is why I always stress to my patients to read a little bit from the book everyday.  Just enough to go through the motions to KEEP YOU HONED IN on the target.  I don’t want you to give up or lose sight of where we are going.  It is a true wonderland.