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The Skim Milk and Banana Diet is another crash diet that’s usually good for 3-5 pounds in 3 days. You eat 4 bananas a day. Get the largest bananas you can find at the grocery store, and wait until they are nice and ripe before you start the diet. Eat one banana for breakfast, one […]

I’m a big fan of crash diets. Over the past month, I’ve posted several of my favorite crash diets for you – The 10 Days 10 Pounds Off Diet, The Grapefruit Diet, The Hot Dog Diet, The Meat and Mushroom Diet, The Skim Milk and Banana Diet, The Cottage Cheese Blitz, The Steak and Tomato […]

Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) works by using stress to make the prefrontal cortex of your brain susceptible to simplistic black and white thinking. The combination of mind-numbing boredom (lack of stimulation of your synapses), and hammering your synapes with rollercoaster emotions, produces susceptibility to simplistic black and white thinking, which is used to decondition […]

It’s hard to explain how Large Group Awareness Training can give you control over your carbohydrate cravings, because LGAT doesn’t reduce your cravings, but makes it easier not to eat sweets and starches, when you crave them. LGAT is not something you can get from a book. You have to be in the group, or […]

Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) can help you lose weight, by decreasing your carbohydrate cravings. More accurately, what LGAT does is decrease the tension associated with having carbohydrate cravings and not eating carbohydrates. Your sweet and starch cravings don’t change after LGAT, what changes is your ability to experience carbohydrate cravings and not give in […]

The key to losing weight is finding a way to stay on a low carbohydrate diet without cheating, which is finding a way to have carbohydrate cravings, and not eat carbohydrates. Your carbohydrate cravings are caused by emotional triggers to recreationally eat (because carbs do make you feel good), and your carbohydrate cravings naturally increase […]

The Steak and Tomato Diet first appeared in Liberty Magazine around 1944, and then later in the Saturday Evening Post. It’s another high protein, very low calorie diet. You have 4 tomatoes and 1 pound of steak a day. You can have 5-6 ounces of steak for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner, with […]

The Egg and Orange Diet first appeared in the French edition of Elle Magazine in the 1950’s. It is an exceedingly low calorie diet, about 600 calories a day. Average patient loses about 5 pounds in 3 days. Half of this weight loss is water, but it is a good way to fit into your […]

The Cottage Cheese Blitz first appeared in Ruth West’s 1957 book, “Stop Dieting, Start Losing”. The book is still available on Amazon and eBay. The Cottage Cheese Blitz has been around forever, and is a favorite way for many patients to drop a quick 5 pounds in 2-3 days. This is a 500 calorie diet, […]

The Meat and Mushroom Diet is a very low calorie quick weight loss diet that first appeared in Look Magazine in March 1962. Average weight loss is 5-10 pounds a week. You eat 9-12 ounces of lean meat a day – beef, lamb or veal. Most patients have 3-4 ounces of meat for breakfast, 3-4 […]