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Sounds like part of an alien plan to take over the galaxy, doesn't it?

Phase 2 is "Regulate Your Eating Times". In this Phase, you must eat 3 meals and 2 snacks and you must eat them within specific time periods. (I cheat on this a little and have something extra when I first get up - my IBS demands it.)

The description below is quoted from Stay Slim for Good. I've shortened it up a bit.

Meals

A meal is defined as anything you wish to eat in the same setting at the specified time.

These are the meals you must eat, and the starting times at which you must begin them:

Breakfast 7:00am - 9:30am
Lunch 12:00noon - 2:00pm
Dinner 6:00pm - 8:30pm

The only exceptions allowed are on weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays you may combine breakfast and lunch as brunch - but you must begin this brunch before 2:00pm.

Snacks

A snack is defined as one beverage (any liquid), plus one item of food (one piece of toast, one chocolate bar, one piece of fruit. You must eat two such snacks every day, and you must begin these snacks within any two of the three specified time periods for snacks:

Mid-morning 10:30am - 11:30am
Mid-afternoon 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Evening 9:00pm - 11:00pm

Decide now which two snack breaks you're going to take, and then keep to it. (If, at the end of seven consecutive days, you would prefer [two different snack times], then you may make this change. After this one change, however, you must keep to the established pattern of two snacks at regular times.

Between meals and snacks, you're allowed nothing but water, soda water, clear tea, and black coffee. [Y]ou can drink as much of these as you like ... and you don't have to record them.

No other eating is allowed. Don't taste food while you're cooking it.

That's it. There's a scoring portion and if you're interested in that, I'll explain how that works. I'm going to edit my original post on Phase 1 to explain how that Phase is scored and from now on I will explain how each Phase is scored.

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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]

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