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PART 1. Things to Know
Habit isn't second nature; it's ten times nature.--- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852)
a) How The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System Works
You weigh what you weigh because the amount of food you eat maintains that weight. If you want to weigh less, you will have to eat less.
But you'll have to fool your body into going along with your plan. You do this by alternating a lower amount of food with a higher one, every other day, just as you did to stop overeating and stop gaining weight.
When people say that diets don't work, they're talking about daily diets. You see, when you diet every day,
Your body
thinks you're trying
to starve yourself. So it starts
sending you strong hunger signals
to try to make you quit dieting. (This usually
works; most daily dieters do quit.) You build up a
backlog of hunger. The longer you are on the daily diet, the
bigger the backlog. Eventually, you quit the daily diet and eat whatever
isn't nailed down, like a bear after hibernation. You regain every ounce you've lost,
and then some, feeling guilty and hopeless -- all because you haven't broken your habit of overeating.
With a daily diet, it will take much longer to reach your goal -- if you ever do -- because you will be forever falling off the wagon. But if you do reach your goal, you will have a constant struggle to maintain it. In short, you will not be successful because you will never really finish dieting. You will be watching what you eat and weight-loss-journalizing for the rest of your life.
Your body is programmed to try to make you quit a daily diet that is too severe. You can't change the programming, but with The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System, you can put it to work for you.
When you diet every other day, you constantly reassure your body that you are not trying to starve yourself.
The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System, has you "stop" dieting
every other day, so you can't build up a backlog of hunger. You
actually lower your body's set point to match your
weight goal, so your body doesn't fight you while
you lose weight, and you don't binge
after you have reached your
weight goal.
actually lower your body's set point to match your
weight goal, so your body doesn't fight you while
you lose weight, and you don't binge
after you have reached your
weight goal.
If you are in good health, you can diet for one day. Anybody can. The next day, you can have even more of your favourite foods. Yes, your favourites; after all, a calorie is a calorie, no matter where it comes from. So on The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System, you can have your calories any way you like. When you diet this way, everything tastes as good as becoming slim feels.
And good news for the ladies: The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System has a level playing field; women have the same advantages as men.
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"[Mary's weight loss program] may sound a little out-there, but the concept could help eliminate that...dilemma that jettisons many...best-laid plans: I want it -- lots of it -- because I can't have it." --- Denise Foley in "Lose Weight Like a Guy", Prevention, May 2006
The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System is really "a diet" for only 21 days. From Day 22 on, it's a calm way of life, just like any other habit.
When you follow the directions, you go through three predictable stages. If you do not experience these three stages, we'll both know you have tampered with the calorie allowances:
Stage One: The Practice Period (21 consecutive days). From Days 1 to 15, you lose water weight. Week 3 of Stage One is also the first week of ---
Stage Two: A 17-day Plateau, starting on Day 16. In this stage, you don't lose an ounce because your body is adjusting to the water loss of Stage One.
From Day 22 on, you are 'hooked' on normal eating. There are 10 definite signs of this.
Stage Three: Coasting to the Finish Line. There is steady weight loss, at two pounds a week, until you reach your goal. Every five weeks, you are a size smaller.
On Day 5 of Week 5 (Day 33), there is a physical sign that the plateau is ending. On Day 1 of Week 6 (Day 36), the plateau ends with a two-pound loss.
Yes, I know you'd like to lose faster, but permanent weight loss takes time. The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System is about safe, permanent weight loss and automatic weight control, not about 'doing a diet'. Besides, from Day 22 on, you won't care how long it takes to reach your goal.
How long will it take you? Figure two pounds a week, plus a two-week plateau.
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"The best thing is that it's easy...you never feel deprived of foods you love to eat. I feel like I'm already reprogrammed for life because I feel comfortable eating less food. I feel like I've already overcome a big obstacle in my way of thinking about food. I feel like I'm in control." --- Stellina R., actress; Vancouver BC
Do not start any NEW programs of any sort (exercise, stop-smoking or what-have-you) during the Practice Period (the first 21 days). If you want to break other habits or change other routines, do so before starting The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System, or after reaching your goal.
For example, if you're already exercising, fine. But if you'd like to start a new or more difficult program, wait until after the 21-day Practice Period. And choose a program you will want to continue after reaching your goal.
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"What I liked about The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System: It was enjoyable! To have 'eating' days every second day made [it] really easy for me and I never missed any favorite foods. I could go on forever like that and lose weight! The support I had from Mary was really good; I could ask her whatever question about the diet and I would get a reply the same day.
"What I disliked about The Enjoyable Diet™ Normal Eating System: There wasn't really something that I disliked about the diet. Maybe I was getting a bit nervous and unsure at the beginning about how I would be able to lose weight with the 'eating' day in between but as soon as I lost the weight I wanted, the confusion disappeared." --- Myrto M., operations engineer; Stockholm, Sweden
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