Rebecca Webber

Exactly.  And frankly, there is nothing more refreshing than pure, cool water.

Distractions are great.  Yoga would serve as a wonderful, time-occupying distraction.  Going for a nature walk would do the same.  Other great ways to control hunger: Bundle up and get WARM, drink hot water, and anything with caffeine.  Exercise will temporarily suppress hunger, but the hunger comes back with a vengeance an hour or so later, and…[Read more]

Hi BK.  I completely understand your frustration, but let me help you.

First, if you truly want to get thin (and extremely healthy) you are going to have to make sacrifices.  It’s hard!  Look around you … whose skinny these days?  But IF you truly want this, then this program is absolutely the best one out there to guarantee that you…[Read more]

Wow!  That’s a lot of confidence, but I love it.  I think it is REALLY HARD to be perfect on the diet when you are celebrating someone’s birthday, but YES … it CAN be done!!  It’s really important to remember that there is always another “occasion” (birthday, holiday, party, graduation, retirement, wedding, funeral, etc.) and they NEVER STOP!  T…[Read more]

Welcome Jas!  Again, I’m delighted to have you here!  You are in the PERFECT place to change your life.  I sent you a welcome message–please answer those for me so I can get to know you even better.

In regard to your above questions,

1. Yes, you may drink salt water, if that helps you.  It’ll certainly help you retain water.  Do you have a prob…[Read more]

You DO!  You look SO MUCH younger!!  Amazing!!  Not only do you look younger, but you actually became younger!  (By adding a lot of years to your life, in essence, you became younger!)

(Wow!  Seriously, I would have thought the second photo was your driver’s license from when you turned 16!)

Great.  I’m glad you posted, BK.  Getting started is the hardest part.  But that’s why you are here, right?  Because you really, really want to be thin, right?  Acknowledging that, it’s hard to get started, but it’s worth it.  So … bite the bullet.  Be very precise in how you manage your day tomorrow.  Black coffee and a multivitamin in the mor…[Read more]

OK:  Tomorrow is your day.  It’s Monday, the beginning of the week.  Let also be the beginning of your new life.  Tomorrow is going to be a challenge, but you are up for it!  Be perfect.  No exceptions.  Tomorrow is the day!  5 perfect bites at lunch and 5 perfect bites at dinner.  After the 5th bite throw everything else away IMMEDIAT…[Read more]

Fine.  You want to feel well before you engage in a difficult venture–this is certainly a difficult (but spectacular!) venture!    But keep in mind, after all is said and done, weight loss is a mind game.  If you do NOTHING at all, you lose weight.  You lose weight with every breath–every 4 seconds.  So use whatever techniques you can find and t…[Read more]

Fine.  You can miss that full feeling, but the next time you really overeat you’ll realize how uncomfortable it really makes you feel.  I used to be in the same boat.  I loved that “fat and happy” sensation after squeezing the last bite of pie into my already overstuffed belly.  But now that I’m thin, my view has completely shifted.  I actu…[Read more]

Hi.  Yes.  It is hard … but it IS doable, and the results are spectacular.  So, as hard as it is, it is totally worth the fight.

But, to make the whole process, all said and done, as easy as humanly possible, you HAVE to follow the diet EXACTLY as I’ve laid it out.  I really hate the term calorie.  It is so meaningless and misleading.  Ple…[Read more]

But … after you finished typing the above message, didn’t you feel really good?  I’m hoping you were able to just throw everything away after that, and that you felt really empowered.

When you sat down to eat your sandwich you were hungry.  Surprisingly, 5 bites adequately filled you up, but OH MY! would you have loved to take more bites.  …[Read more]

Exactly right, Chloe.  Let me repeat what you said: ” … [Motivation wanes as you look and feel better because the problem doesn’t seem as urgent].”  So true!  But what I think is this:  As you lose more and more weight, your motivation changes from NEEDING to lose weight to WANTING to lose weight.  Ultimately I want for you to want–really want…[Read more]

Regardless of how much water you may retain, you KNOW that you are losing FAT by the hour.  Again, the scale doesn’t tell the whole store.  And the water will leave soon.  Water fluctuations average out in the end.  Keep up the focus!!!

I’m glad that your doctor discovered this, but the cure for hypothyroidism is to get thin.  The extra fat on the body suppresses the thyroid gland’s production of thyroid hormone.  Certainly Synthroid is good for you now–until you lose enough weight that your own thyroid starts to take over again.

Minimally.  It turns out that even diet soda contains carbon, but a minimal amount.  the only think you drink that is “calorie-free” is water.  Its the carbon that gives water color, taste, texture (if any), aroma, etc.  But if you burn off the water in a diet coke in a frying pan you can see the residual carbon that remains.  While it is only…[Read more]

Shelly, you “pray nothing gets in the way of your eating 5 bites.”  You don’t need to pray for it.  It’s 100% in your hands.  No one is forcing you to eat.

In terms of what to drink, try HOT water at night.  It should keep you awake, and it’s quite filling.

Let me let everyone here in on Danica’s little secret:  she is no longer hungry.  Once the hungerstat sets, the whole program becomes totally manageable, and you can get as thin as you want as quickly as you want.  It all goes back to: do you really want the end result?  Do you truly want to get to your goal weight?  If you do, then just do as D…[Read more]

Right!  You can never give up!  Your life depends on it!!  But every time you stop eating you are back on the diet.  So you are always going back to the diet.  The trick is to execute your next meal perfectly, and then the next, etc.  But just focus on the next meal.  That’s it.  Just that one.  And if you do just that one perfectly, you will fee…[Read more]

That’s a great technique that I often forget to remind people.  For some reason, counting backwards seems more definitive than counting forwards.  Very good.  

How are you doing, Danica?