2013

Eat up to a pound (16 ounces) of protein every day. It doesn’t matter if you eat eggs, cottage cheese, chicken, fish, hamburger, whatever. Eat whatever protein you like. Eat the same protein for at least 2 days in a row. Drink about a gallon (128 ounces) of water or non-caloric fluid (coffee, tea, diet […]

Juicing is way too many calories, way too fast, and makes most patients gain weight. Most patients absolutely, positively will not stay on a juice diet for more than a day or two, if that. After 3 or 4 meals of vegetable or fruit juice, walk into any restaurant cooking dead animal, even dead animal […]

Unlimited feeding diets don’t work – because you can’t eat as much dead animal and fat as you want, and expect to lose weight. You also can’t cheat for 1 hour a day (as is popular on some diets), and expect to lose weight. Biggest thing that doesn’t work is juicing – way too many […]

You are making weight loss too complicated. If you’re not hungry, don’t eat. Go all day without eating, if you can. The less you eat, the faster you are going to lose weight. When you do eat, eat mostly lower calorie protein (chicken, fish, shellfish, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, eggs), and any vegetable you want, […]

When you are not losing weight fast enough, you’re probably eating too many carbohydrates. Always look at your carbohydrate intake first. If you are keeping your carbs at 10-20 grams per feeding, and you are not losing weight fast enough – then and only then, cut your calories more. Fastest weight loss is on 500-600 […]

When you eat too much carbohydrate, your body stores too much fat. Too much carbohydrate at a feeding releases too much insulin, which drives fat storage. If you consciously increase your protein and fat to carbohydrate ratio, you are taking a big step in damage control. In English, this means get extra meat on sandwiches, […]

Over the long and short run, the biggest factor in how much you weigh, is the amount of carbohydrate you eat. The problem is that in order to lose weight, you have to cut both carbohydrates and calories. If you don’t cut calories, you will deprive yourself of carbohydrates, and probably not lose any weight. […]

Vegetables, except for peas, potatoes and corn are free on my diet, because if you don’t put butter or olive oil on your vegies, they are almost calorie free. Diet dressing is fine. Try to find a diet dressing that you like that has 30 calories per tablespoon or less. A trick is to roast […]

It’s generally easier to eat nothing at all, then to eat a little. As soon as you put anything in your mouth, insulin release makes you even hungrier and want to eat more. It’s a survival mechanism, good for the starving caveman, not good for us. Most patients do best going as long as they […]

Carbohydrates facilitate fat storage. The more carbohydrate you eat, the easier it is for your body to store fat. The less carbohydrate you eat, the less hungry you will be, and the the less fat you will store. In order to lose weight, limit fat storage first, then limit calories. The first thing you need […]