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"A weight-loss theory that just might benefit a few million people." — Stephen Dubner, co- author of Freakonomics
"In fact, it might benefit a few billion." — Dennis Prager, The Dennis Prager Show interview with Seth Roberts (35 minutes).
"You actively feel like not eating. . . It's a kind of not hungry that you've never felt before" — Joyce Cohen, NY Times columnist and blogger.
"It's been two weeks since I started and oh-my-god . . . Within three days I was actually forgetting to eat." — Kathy Sierra, co-author of Head First Java and blogger.
"It has been a very positive experience and weight loss is only one of the benefits" — Food Chronicler.
The Woman's World article ("Instant Willpower!")
Watch a CBC mini-documentary (9 minutes) about the diet.
• Persons posting their weight: 125
• Total weeks of data: 804
• Total weight change (ld): -903
• Average weight change/week (ld/week): -1.1
“I am in Week 4. . . . I remain totally uninterested in food. . . . What's wonderful is how little I'm spending on food and how easy it is to go the market now. I don't have to give myself a rehearsed lecture about why I shouldn't buy Cinnamon Toast Crunch because I don't want it anymore. The supermarket seems so wild, like a museum. I mean, who would want all of that? Whose stomach could possible hold all of that? (I find myself wondering as I wander the isles) Truth be told, I used to want all of it and consume all of it. ” — PBJ
“I was talking to someone about the diet and trying to explain how freeing it is not to have to have cravings or being compelled to over eat but it sounds too easy she said all I could say is it is.” — patsi
“I have only been on it a couple of days already I have a couple of pounds off, and I have some control. I always lost control in the evenings, and this is the third evening and so far I have not been snacking, and do not want anything. . . . This is so easy and so cheap and so exciting.” — Mary Kelly
“Went to my local supermarket today, found that the 17oz size of Berio EVOO and ELOO were on sale, two for one . . . . The ELOO was completely gone, the EVOO barely touched.” — spiritu
The forums contain helpful information about the diet. This is about the self-experimentation behind the diet.
Pages missing from the English export edition.
