Want to kick yourself in the fanny and get started on a low-calorie
approach to take weight off? Concerned about health and looks and
everything else? Worrying about the latest blood pressure reading or
the pain in your over-stressed knees?

Why not promise to yourself that on Sunday you'll start to get ready
for the Monday diet program, and then on Midnight tomorrow night --
August 17 -- you'll start to implement it.

Low calorie with at least some exercise, recording of calories
consumed, weighing on a fairly regular basis (I will weigh myself
daily, but using a balance beam scale so I don't have to look and see
how much water weight I have put on, etc. -- more of this below), and
a restricted calorie approach (aiming at about 1000 to 1200 for men
and maybe 800 to 1000 for women).

100 Days from tomorrow midnight (or maybe Monday midnight or Tuesday
Midnight) for 100 Days. Ending before Thanksgiving with all the
trimmings.

For me it's easiest if I avoid bread, alcohol, and graph daily. Also,
I wear numbers on my watch (e.g., 4/2 would indicate that on day 4 of
my diet I have lost 2 pounds). And I weigh myself daily, using a
balance beam scale. But in weighing myself I never move the indicator
to the right. I know that if I stick to a low-calorie approach then
the weight will HAVE TO COME OFF, unless the laws of physics are
suspended in my kitchen (as Joe Pesci said to a witness in "My Cousin
Vinnie"). So I know that over time the indicator will show me at a
lower weight.

At any rate, think about getting ready to get ready. If you start out
a day after me or two days, that's fine! Check with your doctor or
other health care professional, but I'm going to do it and if you
would like to lose weight over the next 3.3 months, it would be GREAT
to have you along!

So, Gentle Persons -- Start your Engines! Time to get serious about
GETTING SERIOUS!!!

Yours,

Caleb