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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain

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As recommended by the book and "The Lord's Table" online course, this is the eating plan I followed during the course of the 8-week study. It was VERY effective!  I even won the Sisterhood's Biggest Shrinker in May 2009 because of it!!

Monday ~ Liquids Day
Tuesday ~ Half Day
Wednesday ~ Liquids Day
Thursday ~ Normal Day
Friday ~ Fast Day
Saturday ~ Normal Day
Sunday ~ Half Day

"Half" days are where you eat half of what you'd normally eat for each meal.  "Liquid/fast" days I treat the same ~ one normal meal (for me, that's supper) and just liquids for the rest of the day.  I drink water, tea with honey, milk (1 cup at breakfast only), but mostly juices like V8 and V-Fusion.  I can't STAND tomato juice, but my friend suggested heating it up and eating it like soup and now it's not a problem anymore!

"Normal" days are where you eat your normal meals.  Within reason, of course ~ keep in mind we're tryin' to lose weight here!!   It's tough to know what "normal" is when you're trying to eat less than what you used to, but one trick I use is to imagine I am skinny and being interviewed about the secrets of my success.  I try to base my portion sizes on the responses I give the imaginary interviewer.  (Hey, don't laugh ~ it works!  Skinny Me's appetite is much smaller than Current Me's!!)

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