Phase 4 Slip Ups

Managing Slip-ups

There are minor, inconsequential slip-ups for which you don’t need to make up and major slip-ups for which you will have to make up the next day.

Minor Diet Slip-ups
These usually occur when you’re not eating at home, because it’s hard to avoid fats; however, you can easily avoid carbohydrates, or starchy foods and desserts. Have a first course and a main dish and even a small glass of wine if you like. There will be no consequences, as long as these meals don’t become a habit. Go back to your regular diet the next day.

Major Diet Slip-ups
A major diet slip-up is a big meal with all the fixings. After all, you’re entitled to it, aren’t you?
You can make up for a major diet slip-up the next day by avoiding all simple and complex carbohydrates for that ONE DAY ONLY, by going back on Phase 1 of the Ideal Protein Protocol.
Why is that?
Because when you eliminate all carbohydrates the day after a big meal, you reduce the amount of insulin secreted and block fat storage. You might still gain up to two pounds the day after, but don’t panic. You didn’t gain two pounds of fat. Your body is unable to lose two pounds of fat in a day and it can’t gain two pounds of fat in a day either. If two pounds of fat equal 8,000 calories and a woman eats an average of 2,000 calories per day, how could your body possibly store the equivalent of four days of meals after just one meal? What do those two pounds represent then? They represent the weight of the big meal plus the water or fluid you had with it and that had not been eliminated by the time you stepped on the weigh scale the next day.

The Fun Day!
What is the Fun Day? The Fun Day is an important and mandatory part of our Phase 4, Maintenance Phase and essential for long term success. It is a day where the Dieter goes “all-out” and enjoys whatever foods they feel like eating! Dieters who have struggled with his/her weight and believe that they can never enjoy certain foods again will understand with the Fun Day that this is simply not true! The notion of pleasure is a vital part of our protocol and in Phase 4; the Dieter will learn to eat for pleasure and not from compulsion and/or emotion.