FAQ

I scored that reservation at French Laundry. What do I do?

Go ahead and enjoy it! Yes, you will eat too much for one day, but if you have been keeping to the plan, your body has found its balance. Your weight may go up for a day or two, but it will return to the balance point soon.

Can I lose weight following the plan?

For a while, yes. If the “whatever else you want to eat” category is nothing. As mentioned above, there is not enough food to keep a healthy adult full all day. For me, this is just enough for breakfast, lunch, and a mid-morning snack.

How do you know you are eating so little that you are losing weight? You'll know if you experience overwhelming pangs of hunger while reading something that bears only a marginal connection to eating (like this one) at 10 o’clock at night.