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it all trigger my thyroid to burn that tiramisù I enjoyed so much! LOL, I’ll send you my weight in the morning.”
    To me, the idea of subsisting on poached chicken breasts and steamed vegetables, and
getting fatter anyway,
sounds like torture. If I’m going to go down in a gut-busting blaze of glory, it’s going to be with a cheesecake in one hand and ice cream in the other! And you can have cheesecake and ice cream—
if
you stoke your metabolism, getting it burning fast and hot.
    When you don’teat enough, your body makes conserving your fat stores a special priority, and it creates more fat from whatever you feed it by secreting special, emergency-only starvationhormones that block fat burning (that peskyRT3). When you eat a lot of nutrient-dense food in the right way, your body relaxes, recognizes the emergency has passed, and starts burning that fat for fuel again—even the cheesecake.
    So you have two choices. One, you could just never stop dieting. Eat 1,200 measly calories a day, and cancel your barbecue plans
for the rest of your life!
Because if you ever go off that diet, all hell will break loose. Bam, you’re fat again. Just like that. I’ve seen it over and over. Most of my obese clients have lost large amounts of weight in the past, often many times. Or, two, you can repair your metabolism and live the fast metabolism lifestyle.
PROFILE OF A SERIAL DIETER
    Emery is one of my clients, and I consider her to be a typical chronic dieter. A fourth-grade teacher, she was about 30 pounds overweight when she came to see me.
    Emery had done all the diets—Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, the Lindora Diet, and more. She knew exactly how to diet. She knew all the tips and tricks. However, over the years, all the tricks she used to lose weight stopped working. She was eating a low-calorie diet, but had stripped it down so far that it gave her no pleasure and, even worse, it had suppressed her metabolism to the point where she couldn’t lose any more weight. She was eating skinless boiled chicken breasts and broccoli. She was eating about 1,200 calories a day. She never snacked. And yet, she was still significantly overweight and the number on the scale wouldn’t budge.
    I sat her down and told her she needed to go through my four-weekprogram. She would eat five times a day and she would eat the foods at the times and in the order specified.
    When Emery looked at the meal map I designed for her, her eyes widened and she looked at me in horror. “If I eat all this, I’ll
gain
20 pounds in four weeks!” she said. “There’s no way I can eat all this food.”
    I told her that if she gained 20 pounds, I would come to her house and cook for her and pack her lunches and load her refrigerator every day. She agreed. Either way, she was a winner. Emery is now down 26 pounds, and she still can’t believe it. The last time I saw her, she said, “It’s insane. I don’t know what just happened to me.”
    I do. She let her food do the work for her, rather than against her.
    In other words, starving (dieting) is bad and e
ating is good.
You remember eating, right? Eating healthy food without guilt? Ring any bells? It’s the most important thing I want you to remember. Now say it with me:
Eating is good.
    Eating. Is. Good.
METABOLIC MYTH #3: LOSING WEIGHT IS SIMPLYCALORIES IN, CALORIES OUT
    If you’re a dieter who has been starving yourself for years, you may still be reeling from the notion that eating is good … but I’ve got another doozy for you.
    Calories are a lie.
    Here’s the response I usually get to that one: “How can you be a nutritionist and not believe in calories?”
    Actually, I’ve probably been in business for as long as I have precisely because
I
don’t
believe in this old weight-loss equation. When my clients hear that I don’t believe in calories, at first they react with disbelief, but soon I begin to win them over. When they realize that calories aren’t actually to blame for their