step 12: for the long haul

take your ideal weight and subtract it from your actual weight. that's your food quotient. i.e. how much smarter bad food is than you. your job is to get to the point where you can say you are at least as smart as a dum dum

it takes time to gain weight and it takes time to lose it. relax. unlearn your bad eating styles. learn some good ones and practice them. the tummies twelve steps are about leveling the playing field between food and you. soon you too will be marching to a different beet

you still don't get it do you?
you're asking what's wrong with eating things I like? look. there are three kinds of eating

1. the way you eat (adds weight)
2. dieting (unpleasant deprivation)
3. healthy (this is the one you want)



in response to some of your decidedly intemperate e-mails, I am no longer endorsing the prune diet.
listen, the whole idea behind dieting is to lighten up. I told you to consult with your dry cleaner*



editor's note: send e-mail inquiries to dietingfortummies@gmail.com**

write: "this is not about the prune diet, I promise" ***
in the subject line of your e-mail to make sure I read it.


* I never said the runs was an exercise

** salacious e-mails will be kept confidential unless the heat is turned up on me

*** if you think this will fool me you are going to need to get up a little earlier each morning

eatright 2006 by dieting for tummies
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