Don't Eat After 8 pm

Your goal - as long as you're a person who works a 9-5 job and is able to go to bed at a reasonable hour - 10 pm, 11 pm, whatever - is to not eat anything after 8 pm. And to not drink anything with calories either. Drink as much water as you want - and that will certainly quell your hunger pains, but nothing else.

Now, because I advocate easing in to everything gradually, I have often posted here that if you do feel hungry late at night, go ahead and eat some carrots or other fruit. And I meant that.

But eating those fruits and/or veggies is just something you're going to do as you work to lower your appetite level...you're not supposed to eat them every night from now on... you eat them only to quell hunger pains if drinking a glass of water doesn't do the trick.

My whole program depends on doing things gradually. Sure, there are some people with strong willpowers who can quit anything cold turkey - drinking, smoking, eating this food or that food. Most people can't do it, which is why most people fail on these diet plans. They try to quit cold turkey, fail, and think they have no willpower and will never be able to control their appetite.

Willpower is a muscle, and like every other muscle in the body, if you exercise it it will grow stronger.