Once you realize slow weight loss doesn’t work, the key is to figure out the best way for you to live on 500-
1500 calories a day, the lower your carbohydrate intake the better.. All good diets are crash diets. There’s no
science whatever that suggests that slow weight loss is a good thing. There are no data that you are more likely
to maintain weight lost, if you lose it slowly. I’m a big fan of prepacked portion-control to limit calories. Costco
sells 300 calorie, 6 ounce portions of frozen ground sirloin burgers. Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice and Healthy
Steamers, come in at around 300 calories too. A Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, without the bun, is 500
calories. Eat what you like, but keep the calories under 1500 and the carbohydrates as low as possible, or you’ll
be too hungry to stay on your diet. It doesn’t matter if you eat once, twice or sixteen times a day. Some patients
do better eating everything just once a day, others do better spreading their calories into two, three or four small
feedings. Figure out whether you feel better eating early or late, and if you do better eating once or multiple times
a day.