The 7 Day Metabolism Diet is designed to help you lose as much as 2 pounds a day. Half of this weight loss is water, but as long as you drink at least a gallon of water or non-caloric fluid every day, this diet is generally safe and effective for most patients. You can have […]
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There are 3 relatively new medications that can help you lose weight, that are not diet pills. The medications are all appetite suppressant injections, that you give yourself with an epi pen type device. The medications significanlty block hunger, without stimulation, for 24 hours. The first medication is called Victoza, it’s a once a day […]
Half of the weight lost the first week on any diet, whether it’s a crash diet, or traditional slow balanced weight loss (not recommended because it prolongs the agaony, and there’s no science that suggests any advantage of slow weight loss compared to quick weight loss) – is water. There’s nothng wrong or dangerous about […]
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 […]
If you are going to lose weight fast enough to stay motivated while you are dieting, you’ve got to lose weight quickly. The most reinforcing thing you can do, to stay focused and motivated on your diet, is to see that scale dropping every day. Slow weight loss doesn’t work. Slow weight loss does not […]
Every other day dieting works. But you have to drastically cut your calories on your Diet Day, in order to efficiently lose weight. You can pretty much eat what you want on your Off Day, as long as you don’t go crazy and keep your calories within reason. But on your Diet Day, try to […]
Never, ever try to lose weight by simply reducing your calories and increasing your exercise. It just doesn’t work. The myth is that if you decrease your calories by 500 a day, after a week you’ll lose 3500 calories or 1 pound. The reality is that in order to efficiently lose weight, you have to […]
Successful weight loss is always about dealing with your carbohydrate cravings. Everytime you fall off a diet, it’s because of sweets or starches. No one ever blew a diet on salad. Ironically, you can’t really control your carbohydrate cravings. What you can control is not putting sweets or starches in your mouth. In order to […]
The strategy that works best for maintaining weight, for me and most of my patients, is to live on Protein and Veggies on Monday through Friday, and eat anything you want on Saturday and maybe on Sunday. Back to Protein and Veggies on Monday. 50% of patients can eat anything they want on Saturday and […]
If you want to lose weight and keep it off, the bottom line is you’ve got to find a strategy that works for you dayin, day-out. You actually need 2 different strategies, one strategy to lose weight and the other strategy to keep it off. To lose weight, I strongly recommend a low carbohydrate, low […]