Below is an excerpt from Part One of

The 2004 Multi-Diet

by Anderson A. Anonymous, M.D., Ph.D.

Even if you have been overweight for years, you need not believe that there's anything physically, mentally, or morally wrong with you--because there isn't.

Specifically:

• You don't "just have a weak will".
• You are not "lazy".
• You are not "a slob".
• You are not "neurotic".

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• You don't overeat because you need "a substitute for love", or because "your fat protects you from the world", or due to any other irrational compulsion to associate unrelated things.

Furthermore:

• You are not "metabolically defective".
• Your genes are no worse than anyone else's.
• You don't have a maladjusted "set point" for fat.
• Society's standards are not "just screwed up".

[Note: Thin is better because it feels better - and because it's healthier (see Part Two). The fact that "society" happens to agree that it's better is completely irrelevant.]

Ok, So What is the Problem?

The logic behind the Multi-Diet technique goes from the very obvious to the not so very sublime.

1. You are fat because you regularly eat too much food energy (i.e. Calories).

2. But you eat too many Calories because you are chronically hungry for something else you need from food but aren't getting enough of.

3. You are chronically hungry because your body is chronically low on one (or more) of the 50 or so nutrients that you must get from food in order to be healthy. Food energy (Calories) is one of those nutrients, but it's never the one you are low on--as you can see in any mirror.)

4. Your hunger makes you eat food--which always has Calories--but this food often doesn't have much of the thing you really are low on.

5. So you get hungry again too soon.

6. Then you eat more food with more Calories--but again not much of what really made you hungry.

7. You repeat this sequence over and over--usually without realizing it--for weeks, months, or years.

8. Your body thriftily stores the excess Calories and you get fat.

From this point of view, the problem of "overweight" becomes easy to solve. (Some will say "too easy"--until they try the Multi-Diet for themselves).

Caution: Please do not jump to the conclusion that we're just talking about vitamins. That really is too easy--by a lot. Please read on.

The Fattening Process Can Be Too Subtle to Notice

We should note that the "fattening" process described above not only makes you fat but can also be almost completely hidden from you. For example, if you regularly eat as little as 100 Calories per day more than you expend per day, you will store 36,500 extra Calories per year in your fat cells. That is over ten pounds of fat! Do this for two or three years (or more) and it's obvious what will happen to you.

But 100 Calories can be a very small amount of food. For reference, it's about one-half of a candy bar, or a single medium-to-large apple, or two thin slices of bread. In fact, it's so easy to "overeat" this amount of Calories without noticing that a really interesting question is why everyone isn't a hundred pounds overweight by the time they hit age 40. There are several reasons. (Please see MORE ON... ENERGY METABOLISM & STORAGE.)

However, like most other things, once you understand it, this problem becomes simple to deal with.

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