JUDY MAZEL’S BEVERLY HILLS DIET - EUREKA! CONSCIOUS COMBINING DISCOVERED

My weight dropped to ninety-seven pounds. I was dealing with the world from an entirely different perspective. I loved it! I began to love me! I stopped being scared. I knew I would never be fat again. I could eat anything I wanted.

Throughout my testing, my experimenting, and my intense excitement at having discovered the key to my happiness, I kept in mind the emotional side of my eating. I know those trite expressions were filled with truth: swallowing your anger, swallowing your pride, starved for attention, starved for affection, eating your heart out—all those expressions applied to me.

I knew no matter what kind of methodology I had devised, when it came to eating, I was always going to be responding to my feelings with my mouth. To this day when I experience a certain type of disappointment I crave spareribs. I knew my methodology had to allow for those emotional moments.

I found that I didn't have to be 100 percent disciplined, that I didn't always have to plan for what I wanted to eat, that I could give in to the spontaneity of the moment because I had locked on to the corrective counterparts for my indulgences. I could give myself permission to indulge because blowing it didn't mean a tomorrow of nevers. I didn't have to make every meal the "last supper." I didn't have to experience a "fear of eating."

The diet I had made for myself answered all my prayers—a dream come true. What I chose to eat determined what I had to eat because my diet was nothing more than following a series of simple rules, and following them the day after a splurge was easy.

By this time I was scheduling myself day by day, so that one day determined the next, each day hinged on the day before and the day after. I continued to study the enzymatic capabilities of different foods and how they affect digestibility and fat. Success followed success. It got so I could accurately predict the effects before experimenting. I was rarely wrong. It became a matter of streamlining, pushing the limit, adding neutrals (fruits without enzymatic capabilities) for interest, seeking out fat and thin friends and applying my methodology to their diets. More and more I became acutely aware of how I was feeling, aware of the tremendous new energy reserves I had. I was determined to build that energy into my diet forever.

My metamorphosis did not go unnoticed. Friends began asking for help, and I began responding. I decided to devote myself to the Conscious Combining of foods, health, and slimhood. After all, I had acquired and developed this special knowledge, and I felt an obligation to share it with anyone who had a weight problem.

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