What does 2 pounds a week come out to?

Subconsciously, when you're dieting, you may expect to step on a scale each day and see it drop by a pound each day. One morning you weight 200 pounds, for example, the next morning you expect to weigh 199 pounds but it still says 200. Yet you've eaten your small portions and had no snacks...why haven't you lost a pound?

Well, it's because you can't lose a pound a day - not healthily,anyway. What you are losing is a quarter of a pound here, a quarter of a pound there, so that by the end of seven days, you will indeed have lost 2 pounds. (AFTER your body is in the Caloric Imbalance phase which doesn't come until about two weeks after you've starting cutting back on food portion size and drink, and started exercising more.)

Patience is the bane of anyone trying to lose weight. You must be patient. You must not get discouraged - or angry - if you've "dieted" for a week and see absolutely no result. As long as you're following my program - eating smaller portions, weight training, and biking or walking or jogging - you are getting results.

First off - you're not gaining any weight, right?   (Although, during the first 2 weeks of the program, you will gain a couple of pounds. Why? Because since you're exercising, you're building muscle, which weighs more than fat. So you may be losing fat, but for the first two weeks it's replaced by muscle. But as you get to that state of caloric imbalance, the fat burns off and/or is turned into muscle (I won't go into muscle...fat and muscle are actually two different things, one doesn't turn into the other...but for the sake of what you need to know, just accept that it does! "Same difference" as the saying goes.)

So be patient. Give yourself at least 4 weeks of following my program before you step on the scale for a second time. (The first time of course would be the day you start the program. You must know your baseline.)

If you follow my program and have not lost any weight in 4 weeks, then visit your doctor to see if there's a medical issue.