A few urgent and essential final instructions.
1. Weigh yourself every day, and write it all down in the weight section included in the diet. Then tell your weight to someone—the same person—each day. Acknowledge and confront your weight, and let go of it. You confront your weight by weighing yourself. You acknowledge it by writing it down. And you let go of it by telling it to someone. Don’t try to remember it. Let it go. If you don’t have a scale, buy one immediately. You cannot begin this diet until you do. If you don’t weigh yourself, you may not lose weight.
2. Eat the foods only in the order listed. Do not skip around. Food follows food and one day’s program follows another for very specific reasons. Once you have changed foods, don’t return to the previous one.
3. If the diet specifies that you should eat a certain amount of a food, eat all that’s indicated, even if it means stopping for a while and going back to it. Don’t move on to the next food until you do.
4. If an amount is not specified, eat unlimited amounts—as much as you want. Eat until you’re full. The more you eat, the more you lose. You are losing weight by feeding your body, not by starving it. Do not let yourself go hungry. Remember, you have permission to really get full.
5. Buy enough, more than you think you’ll need. Five pounds of grapes on a grape day is not excessive. Better to freeze leftovers than set yourself up for failure by not having enough.
6. Eat slowly. It isn’t how much you eat in how short a time-it’s how long you can make the pleasure last
7. Use frozen food only when fresh food is not available. Do not eat canned foods because of the high sodium content.
8. Don’t substitute fresh fruit for dried fruit. Dried fruit may be substituted for fresh fruit only when fresh or frozen fruits are not available.
9. Eat only the foods listed. If something else flies into your mouth, spit it out—quick!
10. Wait two hours between eating different kinds of fruits.
11. Wait three hours between eating all other kinds of foods— that is, fruit to carb, fruit to protein, carb to carb, carb to protein, protein to protein.
12. All dried fruit must be unsulfured (no sulfur dioxide or preservatives or honey dipped). Soak all dried fruits, except raisins and dates for one hour and then discard the water.
13. All nuts and seeds must be raw and unsalted.
14. Oil must be cold pressed or expeller pressed.
15. Use unsalted butter only. Use raw butter, if it’s available. Raw butter is made from milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized.
16. Drink water, coffee, and tea only. No diet soda. Noncar-bonated mineral waters are preferable to carbonated.
17. No salt, salt substitutes, or powdered seasonings.
18. No artificial sweeteners. Real sweeteners only if specified.
19. No nondairy creamer. Milk or cream only if specified.
20. No gum, sugarless or otherwise. Why just chew if you can eat?
21. Fowl must be eaten with the skin. Everything contains essential nutrients.
22. Don’t throw anything away. Eat everything, especially the seeds, and eat as many as you can. They are the storehouse of the enzymes, the focus of the nutrients. If you have never tasted grape, papaya, apple, or watermelon seeds, you’ll be in for a pleasant surprise.
23. No lime or lemon on anything, unless specified. It neutralizes the protein enzyme, pepsin.
24. When alcohol is listed it is optional.
25. The “day” ends when you go to sleep and the new one begins when you wake up—not when the clock strikes midnight. If you wake up in the middle of the night and you will be going back to sleep and you are hungry, continue with the last thing you ate before you went to sleep.
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