Losing weight is 50% finding the right diet that works for you, and 50% finding the best way for you to stay on that diet. As you know, I’m a big fan of very low (10 grams per feeding) carbohydrate diets, because you lose twice as much weight on 1500 calories of protein and fat, […]
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Because you lose weight twice as fast on 1500 calories of protein and fat, compared to 1500 calories of carbohydrate, the key to efficient weight loss is not to cheat on your low carbohydrate diet. To help keep you from cheating, there are a number of variations of Implosion, Metaphor and Reframing that you can […]
The best way to stay on a diet without cheating is to use Implosion (bugs on what you are craving) to extinguish your desire to cheat, or Metaphor (imagery that you are dragging around what you are craving) or Reframing (the notion that you can crave something, and not put it in your mouth). In […]
Reframing is the third technique you can use to keep yourself from cheating on a diet. Reframing is looking at and solving a problem, from a different point of view. Here’s how to use Reframing for weight loss. In order to stay on a diet without cheating, you need to be able to control your […]
Besides Implosion, there are two other techniques that can help keep you from cheating on a diet. The first technique is the psychological intervention called Metaphor. An example of Metaphor is to imagine that your overweight problem is due to your eating bread (or whatever you are craving, not on your diet). Picture yourself in […]
he reasons you fall off any diet are hunger, emotional eating, cravings and recreational eating. Hunger is the easiest to fix. If you’re hungry on my Run, Walk, Swim or Fly program, or hungry on my Fast Food Diet, go ahead and eat. Just eat something that’s on the diet. Emotional eating (whether you are […]
We’re talking about the psychological strategies that can help you stay on a diet without cheating. Twenty years ago I did a study on the University of Michigan campus, looking at overweight from a new perspective. I figured that overweight people didn’t have an eating disorder, they were very good at eating. Their problem was […]
Because half of losing weight is a decision, and you can recreationally eat in a heartbeat, it’s not easy to stay on a diet. The problem with cheating is that if you want to lose weight efficiently, you can’t cheat at all. Remember that on 1500 calories of protein and fat, you’ll lose twice as […]
My business card says: “No whining. You ate it. Half of losing weight is a decision.” I’m not kidding. I can adjust your appetite suppressant medication so you are 100% not hungry. I can adjust your anti-craving medication so you have absolutely no sweet, no starch, and no alcohol cravings. But you can still recreationally […]
The problem with losing weight taking appetite suppressants alone, is that once you stop the appetite suppressants, your lost weight tend to pour back on, unless you are vigilant in restricting your carbohydrate intake. In order to lose weight, the rule is to keep your calorie intake under 1500 a day, and to keep your […]