If you’re trying to lose weight, you may feel like Totie is talking about you. You’ve probably tried diet after diet, joined Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem, or tried whichever “lose twenty pounds in two weeks” diet program was being advertised the last time you watched late-night television. Maybe you sat through a few Weight Watchers meetings where everyone else lost weight that week . . . but not you. Maybe you tried herbal diet pills that work, or over-the-counter Alii, or overpriced aqai supplements. Maybe you’ve hitched your diet wagon to the likes of Valerie Bertinelli or Jennifer Hudson and the diet programs and products they promote. type, and stay in the zone, right? But whatever you’re doing and whatever advice you’re following, you’re not losing weight. In fact, you may even be following one of these weight loss programs or diet gurus religiously, eating well, exercising regularly, and not only are you not losing, but you’re actually gaining weight! Mari, a personal trainer, found herself frustrated. It just didn’t make any sense. There I was advising my clients on fitness and nutrition, and somehow, I kept gaining weight, and couldn’t drop a pound myself. I was eating a terrific, healthy diet— and believe me, in my business, I know about good sources of protein, organic fruits and veggies. I was working out with at least six clients a day—that’s six hours of exercise on top of a low-calorie, low-fat, ultrahealthy diet. What else was I supposed to do, for goodness’ sake, when I cut calories, cut fat, exercised more than ever before, and I still couldn’t lose weight? Maybe, like Mari, you never had a weight problem, but then suddenly the pounds started piling on. gain a pound. But you—well, you seemingly defy the laws of physics! How it is humanly possible to eat the same things, in the same quantities, and do the same amount of exercise this month as you were doing last month, yet gain ten pounds? Logically, you would need to take in an extra 35,000 calories during the month—basically, the calories in sixty-five Big Macs—to gain ten pounds. And yet there it is, the extra weight… defying all logic and reason. Andrea noticed that she had gained fifteen pounds unexpectedly, and to jump-start some weight loss, she did a three-week liquid cleansing fast—with no solid food, just drinking water and vegetable broth. At the end of the three weeks, she had gained two pounds. I told my doctor that I was having trouble losing weight, even on the cleansing fast. When Corey first got married, she was a healthy 135 pounds. Six months later, I was 175 pounds, miserable, and wondering how this had happened to me. At first, the doctor told me I was “clearly” eating too much and not exercising enough. had actually improved after I got married and graduated from college. Before graduation, I ate fast food almost constantly. My new husband was a big fan of salad for dinner, so we primarily cooked at home and ate lots of salads.
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