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Originally Posted by Mari
Dear Bobby,
This is good that you are encouraged about your diet.
Don't think of the weight all at once. Think of it in bits and pieces (10% off, 10 pounds off, whatever helps.). And don't think of your final goal all the time. Remember that this is a process. You have started eating in new ways that you can do for a long time.
The amount of weight lost a week has to do with how much weight a person has in the beginning. I think a person might be able to keep up a rate of more than two pounds a week for several weeks or a month and then settle down to 1 to 2 pounds a week.
(I mean I'm giving an example here -- just as Ornish was -- this depends on a person's starting weight.)
You are doing fine.
M.
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thank you Mari
as I wrote Waves, I hope i haven't jinxed myself....why does everything have to be one day at a time. Icouldn't do this diet if i couldn't have pasta....that is a real comfort food. you can also have french baguettes because they have no fat. i bought butter buds which i like if i want to put them on the vegetables. he says no coffee and decaf is less bad. I switched to decaf and didn't get a headache or anything. I forgot what he wrote about caffeine constricting the blood vessels. his book was really funny. he mentioned smoking and the Marboro man. he wrote that half the men who smoke are impotent because of the constriction of the blood vessels so it would probaby scare more men off of smoking instead saying about death mentioning impotency. lol
bobby