• Eat protein as desired from Level One lean meat, fish, and poultry lists.
  
  
  • While you wean yourself off high carb foods, you may need to eat more
    
• Eat slowly so you can sense when you are full.
• Your appetite will reduce naturally after 3-5 days
  
  
• 0-4 cups Level One vegetables per day for the first two weeks up to two months
  
  
  • Appetite for this large quantity of food will decrease as your appetite begins to reduce.
    
    
• Use healthy fats to prepare your low carb meals, but don't use too much oil because calories still count.
  

• Take a complete multivitamin each day plus other supplements as recommended by your physician.
  
  • Baby aspirin - to thin the blood and fight vascular inflamation
  • Calcium plus vitamin D - to build healthy bone mass
  • Vitamin E & C
    
    
• Increase the daily consumption of dietary fiber with supplements. Use Fibersure and Metamusel, and Psyllium tablets. Learn more about the importance of dietary fiber.

Stage Two Eating:

• The amount of medium carb foods your body will tolerate is different for everyone.
  
  
• Some people can tolerate more carbohydrates than others and still lose weight.
  
  
• You need to experiment with Level Two foods to determine how large a volume and how frequently you eat them.
  
  
• Try one food from this group per day and observe your progress
  
  If weight loss stops, return to Level One foods and reduce Level Two foods.

You have reached your weight goal

• You have reached the desired weight loss "number"
  
  
• Warning! Warning! Warning! You need to be cautious!
  
  
• You are still in danger of regaining your lost weight.
  
  
• Think about what you learned in Stage Two Eating.
  
  
• Can only lose weight when following a limited number of Level Two foods per day
  
  
• Or can you eat Level Two meals more frequently and still lose weight.
  

Stage Three Eating:

• Carefully increase quantities of Level Two foods.
  
  
• Gradually introduce Level Three foods and watch how your body reacts.
  
  
• Determine how much of these new foods cause weight gain.
  
  
• The foods that made you fat will cause you to regain the weight you just lost.
  
  
  • Avoid sugar in all its forms permanently
  • Eat only high fiber, whole grain foods for the rest of your life.
    
  • Make sure whole grain bread has at least 3 grams of fiber per slice
    
    
    • Read labels of all prepackaged foods
    • Avoid sugar, corn-syrup, high fructose syrup
    • Avoid white flour, quick oats, or commercial low fiber breading
    • Avoid white rice, instant rice
    • Avoid low fiber pasta
      
      
• If you start to gain weight, return to the Level One or Level Two Meals