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FAQ: When Do I Stop Dieting? What Do I Do Then?
The "One Day Diet" plan really IS a "one day diet". You diet for 1 day, called your Diet Day, then you stop dieting for one day, which is called a Food Day. If you want to lose more than a pound or two, you simply do another Diet Day followed by another Food Day, for as long as you want to or need to. You can stop and start again anytime you want.
Even though you get only 180 calories from the 20 Diet wafers you eat on Diet Days, this diet is safe to continue for weeks at a time because you are always eating "normally" every second day and getting your usual healthy diet. Your body won't even sense that you are "dieting".
What does "eat normally" mean? By that I mean to eat the amount of food that provides the number of calories of energy required by your body, which depends on your body mass, age, activity level, and basal metabolic rate. In simple terms, it means to eat what is considered a healthy amount of food for one day - not more than your body needs, and not less than your body needs.
In simpler terms, it means to eat as much as you were eating BEFORE you started on this weight loss program - UNLESS you are presently on a weight loss program or some other diet plan and are still consuming less calories than would be considered "normal" for someone of your height and weight and age and activity level. If you plan to use the One Day Diet plan, then STOP any other kind of weight loss program before you begin the One Day Diet - and do not try to do any other kind of diet at the same time.
Basically, "eating normally" means eating an amount of food which would not cause you to gain weight and not cause you to lose weight, but to MAINTAIN your current body mass that day. You are not expected to lose weight on your Food Days, and you should NOT try to lose weight by eating less on the Food Days, or you will risk lowering your metabolism when your body senses a reduction in the food supply for three days in a row or more.
The "end" of your One Day Diet plan is when you have lost all the pounds and inches you wanted to lose. When you get to that point, you just stop doing the Diet Days. Then every day becomes a Food Day again - a day on which you MAINTAIN your current body mass.
You can "take a break" for a while by doing a series of two or more Food Days in a row, anytime you want. If you want to lose a few more pounds later, you just start with another Diet Day and continue until you reach your weight loss goal, even if it's only for one or two days. Some people can lose 1 to 2 pounds in just one Diet Day. Your One Day Diet wafers will last for a long time, so keep them around in case you want to lose a few pounds quickly, or use them as a low-calorie "snack food" if you get hungry between meals, or keep some as an "emergency food supply".
A 24-hour "Diet Day" starts in the morning when you get up, and ends the next morning when you eat some food. You will be burning fat and losing weight, even while you are asleep all night. If you work at night or are traveling to a different time zone, then start your Diet Day whenever you wake from your daily rest cycle.
Just don't do two Diet Days in a row, and don't try to "diet" on your Food Days. You can always do more than one Food Day in a row if you want, which is the same as NOT being "on" the One Day Diet for a while.
You lose weight only on the Diet Days, and you can basically do a Diet Day whenever you want to lose one or two pounds - as long as you NEVER do two Diet Days in a row. You must never go "3 days in a row with reduced calories" or you will risk lowering your metabolism - which would result in not losing weight, and perhaps actually gaining weight later. (Going 3 days in a row without getting your usual supply of calories would be "starvation", and your body will react by storing more fat and lowering your metabolism.)
If you want to lose a lot of weight, you can just keep up the "one day on, one day off" cycle for as long as necessary, or until you run out of Diet wafers. In other words, just do the One Day Diet over and over again until you achieve your desired weight loss. It's as simple as that.
FAQ: How Many Pounds Can I Expect to Lose With The One Day Diet Plan?
First, please understand that your REAL goal is not to lose "pounds".
What you really want to lose is FAT.
Think about this example... A champion body-builder ready for a competition may weigh 220 pounds, yet may have only 3 to 5 percent of that body mass as fat. He is all bone and muscle, and very little fat - and his muscles show through because there is less fat to hide them. Now you would not say "He WEIGHS too much" at 220 pounds, would you? It's not the weight but the FAT that counts.
You want to lose FAT without losing MUSCLE. You want to look trim instead of flabby, and the less fat and more muscle, the more shapely your body will be. And the more muscle cells you have, the more calories your body burns to feed those muscle cells. The same volume of muscle weighs nearly three times as much as the same volume of fat, so "weight" is not a very reliable indicator. If you were gaining as much muscle as you were losing fat, your weight would actually increase - but you would look better and be healthier!
We are not actually talking about gaining muscles while on the One Day Diet (but this Diet does help prevent losing muscle while losing fat). We are using muscles and body-builders to make a point about getting our priorities straight. Measuring your weight by the pound is convenient, but it is not the pounds that really matter - it's the INCHES!
Trust the inches in the waist of your pants, or the size your dress, as the best indicators of success with any Diet plan.
Now, let's discuss your desire to have some reassurances that you can lose a certain number of pounds in a certain period of time. That's a reasonable desire, to have some kind of "guarantee" that you will succeed before you start. But, unfortunately, it's just not realistic. It can happen in the fantasy world of advertising hype, but it really can't happen in real life. And here's why.
Please be aware that every individual has a different body, different body mass, different metabolic rate, and different eating habits. These things all affect how fast you gain or lose weight, so there is no way to make any blanket statements or claims about the expected weight loss in pounds that will be true for EVERY person. As they say... "Individual results will vary." And YOU are an INDIVIDUAL.
You can look over the testimonials provided on this web site to get an idea of how much weight SOME individuals have actually lost while using the One Day Diet. And I can tell you about my own personal experience with the One Day Diet, where I lost 20 pounds in 14 days in April 2003, the first time I tried the One Day Diet as a new customer. That was a surprisingly large weight loss for me, and I am not implying in any way that YOU will lose 20 pounds in 14 days like I did. I can only say that "I did it." THIS individual did it. But I'm not you, and neither are those people who gave testimonials.
There are several factors which will make one person lose more or less weight than another person, and I will list some of them here.
The most obvious factor is HOW you personally DO the One Day Diet. Are you going to follow the guidelines exactly, and not ever do anything or eat anything you are not "supposed to"? Will you get out and do some walking on Diet Days or get some other kinds of exercise to help burn off even more fat? Are you going to eat a healthy diet on all of your Food Days and not gain weight that day by over-eating? Or are you going to eat things which will just add more fat on Food Days that will have to be burned off on the next Diet Day?
All these things depend solely on YOUR choices and habits, and this is going to affect how much weight you lose on ANY diet plan, and how FAST you lose the weight. Nobody can guarantee that YOU will follow the Diet plan instructions, so nobody can really guarantee that YOU will lose the amount of weight that others have lost on the same Diet. It depends on YOU and your own actions.
The second thing you should understand is that you will likely lose MORE weight the first time you do the One Day Diet, because the weight seems to come off faster when you weigh much more than your "ideal" body weight. As you lose some weight and get closer to your ideal body mass, the pounds seem to come off less quickly. The second time I used the One Day Diet, in January 2004, I lost 15 pounds in 14 days, which was 5 pounds less than the first time. So take that into account when you compare your own rate of weight loss to anyone else's.
The third thing you should know is that men tend to lose weight faster than women of the same body mass, because men usually have more muscle mass (more muscle cells in their body) than women, who have more fatty tissue than men. Muscle cells require energy at all times, whether they are being used or not, so they burn calories "just sitting there" and while you are asleep. Fat cells, on the other hand, don't burn calories at all, they just store energy in the form of fat. So the higher the percentage of muscle cells you have in relation to your overall body mass, the more calories those extra muscles cells are constantly burning for you. You can eat more food without adding fat, and you can lose fat more quickly by eating less food.
So men, with their higher percentage of muscle cells, have an intrinsic advantage over women, who have a higher percentage of fat cells than the average man. Because women bear children, they have those extra stores of fat in strategic areas - and that is a good thing! But it does make it harder for women to lose weight, compared to men. And you should understand that because of this, a woman should be eating LESS food than a man of comparable body mass. If you are a woman who goes out for a restaurant meal, you are likely being served a "man-sized" portion of food, which is TOO MUCH FOR YOU. Don't be afraid to "just say no" to the extra food. Just leave it on your plate. Otherwise, you will eat more than your body really needs, and it will store the excess food as fat!
The fourth thing you should know is that when you are NOT drinking enough water, your body will STORE water to survive when it senses a shortage in the water supply. But if you follow the instructions for the One Day Diet plan, you WILL be drinking enough water, and this will cause your body to sense that there is no longer any shortage of water, which will soon make it start to shed the stored water because it just doesn't need that emergency supply any more. Thus if you were not drinking enough water before the Diet plan started, you will likely lose some extra pounds of "water weight" in the first week or so, which can make you think, "What a great diet! I am losing weight fast with this." But once your body stabilizes the reduced amount of water it is storing, you will lose that little "fast start advantage" you experienced in the early days on the Diet.
So don't let a sudden slowing of the rate at which you lose pounds discourage you. It was a temporary shedding of water weight that made your scale show a larger loss of weight per day at the outset, but what you are seeing in the second week is the REAL rate of weight loss you are likely to experience. It may not be as great as you experienced in the first week or so, but it can still be a rapid weight loss, more than most diet plans will produce. I bought an expensive scale that measures in one-tenths of a pound, and it shows that I typically lose 2.0 pounds from the morning of a Diet Day to the next morning on the following Food Day. Others I have talked to are losing 1 to 2 pounds this way too. But remember that "individual weight loss will vary".
I should also mention that this summer of 2004 I am often gaining back half a pound on my Food Days, but that's still a net loss of 1.5 pounds in 2 days. Yes, I am back on the Diet... not because I gained any weight afterwards, but because I still need to lose another 25 pounds to get down to my ideal body weight. (I now wear size 36 jeans, not the size 44s I was wearing last year before the Diet.) It's harder now, being closer to my ideal weight - and wanting to get out and use the barbeque a lot during the summer months is not making it any easier! Those ribs and chicken wings are just too tempting (on Food Days only, of course).
The fifth thing you need to understand is that people who do any kind of "exercise" while on their Diet plan will lose even more weight, or lose it more quickly. You don't "have" to exercise for the One Day Diet to work, but it does work better if you can use your muscles on the Diet Days, for that forces your body to burn even more fat to create the glucose it needs to "fuel" your moving muscles. So even a 10 or 20 minute brisk walk on your Diet Days will help you lose weight faster. It's also good to exercise on the Food Days, but you don't get the same effect because your body will have enough carbohydrates available from the food to burn to create glucose, and doesn't need to go to its stored fat.
So if you only have time to walk or exercise a few days a week, try to do it on the Diet Days if you can. Since the exercising increases the rate of weight loss, then you have to realize that others who exercise while on the Diet will likely lose weight faster than you, if you are not getting much exercise. You don't HAVE to exercise to lose weight, but you will lose weight FASTER if you will just get out and walk on your Diet Days.
The sixth thing you need to realize is that the only way to lose weight is to consume less calories than your body needs - and that you will gain weight when you consume MORE calories than your body needs that day, for it will store the extra energy as fat to be used later whenever you happen to need it. Sorry if that fact of life disappoints you, but there really is no way around it. You lose weight when you take in less food than your body needs, and you gain weight when you take in more food than your body needs. How much your body needs on a given day can vary with the amount of exercise you get, and how much energy you as an individual will need can vary with the rate at which your body uses up energy - measured by the "metabolic rate". If you have a high metabolic rate (or "high metabolism") you will burn more energy per hour and thus lose weight more easily than someone with a lower rate. If you have more muscle cells, you will use more energy per hour than someone who has less muscle cells.
On a Diet Day, you are only getting 180 calories from your 20 Diet wafers, plus a few hundred more if you eat a typical amount of fruit. That is a VERY low carb diet, but you do it for only 24 hours at a time. The following day is always a Food Day, and the amount of calories you consume is up to you. On Food Days, you are SUPPOSED TO eat "as many" calories as your body was used to getting BEFORE you started dieting, for this is what prevents it from sensing a "food shortage" and then reacting by storing fat and lowering your metabolic rate - which you definitely do NOT want it to do! But if you eat TOO MANY calories, more than your body needs to supply its energy needs for that Food Day, the excess will be stored as fat.
So try to eat the amount of food and calories that is "just right" for your daily energy needs on your Food Days (and also after you finish your Diet plan), and you won't gain any weight. But if you indulge yourself too much on Food Days, you will slow your rate of weight loss on the One Day Diet. Yes, you can have some of those tasty treats on your Food Days, but if you have TOO many sugary or fatty foods, or eat too much food, you will gain some weight on your Food Days - the same way you were doing before you started dieting. And that will make your One Day Diet produce less than optimal results for you, compared to the dieters who eat a more healthy and conservative diet on their Food Days and don't put on any weight that day.
And there you have six reasons why "Individual results may vary." And that's why we can't make any claims or predictions about how many pounds YOU will lose from 14 days on the One Day Diet (one bottle of wafers is a 14-day supply if you keep doing one Diet Day followed by one Food Day for 14 days). We can only claim that the One Day Diet does work for the vast majority of people who follow the Diet plan faithfully. If they do that, and they are still not satisfied with the weight loss they achieved, then we will gladly honor the "30-day money-back satisfaction guarantee" which was promised at the outset. Nothing works for every person, but we can see that this Diet is working well for so many people that only a small percentage are claiming a refund under the guarantee. All we ask is that you give it a fair try, and try to do it the way it was designed to work.
If you stick to your One Day Diet and follow the instructions exactly, I think you will be pleased with how fast the pounds come off, and how easy it is to do this Diet. You may not lose 20 pounds in 14 days, or 25 pounds in a month, but if you can lose even 5 or 10 pounds you are probably doing better than you did on your own or on some other diet plans you tried. I know that I would still have been happy to lose 10 pounds in 14 days. I was suprised to have lost 20. But to me it is not how fast I lose the pounds and inches that is most important - but that I DO lose those pounds and inches. If someone else can do it faster, good for them! But I will lose the weight I want to lose, even if it takes me longer - and that's what really counts.
Here's a "twist" on an old motivational saying by a famous football coach, which we can adapt to losing weight.
"Losing is not the important thing - it's the ONLY thing!"
Here's a quick summary of what you should NOT do, if you are serious about losing weight...
(1) Don't eat ANY refined sugar, sucrose, glucose, or alcohol on your Diet Days. Just eat the 20 Diet wafers, some raw fruit (not vegetables) and drink water. Nothing else. Eat as much fruit as you feel you need to be comfortable, but don't eat more than you really need - the less, the better. Don't try to "cheat" or make up your own rules and exceptions. It's only for ONE day. Many others have done it. I did it. YOU can do it too.
(2) Don't "diet" at all on your Food Days. Eat the way you were eating BEFORE the Diet. Don't skip meals, don't cut calories, and don't do any other kind of diet. Don't get too many LESS calories than is "normal" for you, but eat sensibly and don't consume too MANY calories on your Food Days.
DO be sure to EAT BREAKFAST when you wake up on your Food Days. And eat your 2 Diet wafers and maybe some fruit when you wake up on your Diet Days. It really IS the most important meal of the day, and you should ALWAYS eat breakfast, while on or off a diet. Skipping breakfast is only going to contribute to weight gain, not help you lose weight.
If you don't have time to eat breakfast, grab an orange or apple or banana and eat it on the way to work or school. You need to eat SOMETHING nutritious, or you are going to be craving some sugar-laden snack food before lunch. If you eat something with sugar, you will likely get hungry and want MORE sugar in half an hour. Note that you may have gone 12 hours without any food (such as 8 PM to 8 AM), and you need to "break your fast" in the morning. Raw fruits and unprocessed and unsweetened oatmeal or shredded wheat are good choices for breakfast foods if you want to lose weight.
Here's a general, all-purpose "DON'T" that can help you. Eating refined sugar or any processed foods which contain sugar are the worst things you can eat if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Learn to live with much less sugar, and you may never need to diet again.
Read the nutrition and ingredient labels on all the processed foods you buy, and learn to look out for the words "sugar", "sucrose", and "glucose", especially if they are near the top of the list, or if you see all three listed. (Using different kinds of sugar instead of just cheap refined sugar is a sneaky way to avoid having to list "sugar" at the top, which would make you notice that sugar is the MAIN ingredient by weight). IF you see these signs of excess sugar, then "DON'T" buy those sugar-laden foods which were specifically designed to make you want to eat more of them. (Yes, there really is a conspiracy to make you eat more processed foods and spend more money on them. Some food manufacturers have been bought up by the same companies which used to add extra nicotine to cigarettes to make the smokers smoke more and buy more cigarettes.)
Those sugary foods are not your friends! They are the false friends that are making you fat, and they could be contributing to the increasing epidemic of adult-onset diabetes that now affects even young children who are eating too many processed foods and too many soft drinks with too much sugar in them. Spend less time with those so-called friends, and you can have a better life without them.
FAQ: What CAN I Eat and Drink on the Diet Days?
We'll discuss what you CAN'T eat and drink on your Diet Days later. Remember that on Food Days, you "eat normally", which includes all the foods you normally eat, and even some "treats" to reward yourself for doing another Diet Day successfully. The One Day Diet is not a "deprivation diet", for you only "diet" for 1 day, then eat your favorite foods the very next day. So enjoy yourself on those Food Days!
Now let's list those things you CAN eat and drink on your Diet Days.
#1 - Eat 2 Diet Wafers Per Hour for 10 Hours. This is NOT optional, you NEED these on Diet Days.
On your Diet Days you must start eating 2 Diet wafers each hour from the time you would normally eat breakfast - or from the time you get up if you usually skip breakfast (which is not a good idea). You can eat either the milk chocolate or French vanilla Diet wafers, or any mix of the two, since they contain the same ingredients except for the flavor. You can eat one wafer every half hour if you want, as long as you get 2 per hour. But it is IMPORTANT to eat your 2 Diet wafers EVERY HOUR for at least 10 hours, and I'll tell you why...
The Diet wafers do two things for you. One is to supply the essential nutrients you need for one day, since you will not be eating "regular food" except for some raw fruit. The wafers contain vitamins and minerals and other things your body needs to stay healthy, including a day's ration of salt. They do not contain refined sugar or drugs or anything that is not "natural". They contain no cholesterol, and only 1% saturated fat.
The other thing the Diet wafers do for you is keep you from feeling hungry, by giving you just enough raw sugar (natural dehydrated cane juice) to keep your blood glucose level at a constant level. Glucose is a simple sugar which is the basic "fuel" for every cell in your body, including your brain cells, and it is transported as a component of your blood. If the level of glucose in your bloodstream drops below a certain level, you will feel hungry and crave food. This is definitely something you DON'T want to happen while you are on a Diet Day!
So you must eat those 2 Diet wafers each hour to keep your blood glucose level from dropping down and making you hungry, which would tempt you to "cheat and eat" and feel guilty - or cause you to feel frustrated and discouraged, which might make you want to give up on your weight loss plan the first day!
If you are used to eating at night after your regular dinner, you might feel hungry after you have already eaten your 20 Diet wafers in the first 10 hours. In that case, it's okay to eat another 2 Diet wafers per hour until you stop feeling hungry or go to sleep. You can try eating some raw fruit instead, but 2 Diet wafers have less calories.
There is kind of a "trade off" involved between getting JUST ENOUGH complex carbohydrates to let your body convert them to glucose and maintain your blood glucose level to avoid hunger, compared to GETTING TOO MUCH. Carbohydrates supply calories (a measure of energy) and too large an amount of carbohydrates on a Diet Day will slow down the rate at which your body burns off fat, so you won't lose as much weight. On a Diet Day, your body is burning stored fat BECAUSE it can't get enough carbohydrates to convert to glucose and supply your body's energy requirements for the entire day. So you don't want to eat too many carbohydrates with too many calories, but you do need some to avoid that hungry feeling all day.
There are two factors involved here. One is HOW MUCH fructose or other complex carbohydrates you give your body, and the other is HOW OFTEN your body gets it. The raw fruit also contains fructose and other carbohydrates, but it is hard to measure the quantity in every kind of fruit and in all their varying sizes. By using the Diet wafers which all contain exactly the SAME amount of raw sugar, and eating the SAME number of wafers at the SAME time interval (every hour), we can carefully regulate how much your body gets, and how often it gets that particular amount. This way, your blood glucose level is carefully controlled and feelings of hunger will not occur - if you remember to eat your 2 Diet wafers every hour.
Each individual has a different body chemistry and body mass, and also a different metabolic rate (the rate at which your body needs to burn glucose for energy to survive). The 2 Diet wafers per hour will work just fine for the average person on the One Day Diet, but some people may need more carbohydrates to avoid those feelings of hunger, so that brings us to the second thing you can eat on your Diet Days...
#2 - Eat some fresh raw fruit whenever you feel like it. If you don't feel like it, don't eat any.
See the FAQ below for details on what KINDS of fruit you should eat on your Diet Days, and why you should eat the fruit but NOT drink that same fruit's juice as a beverage on your Diet Days.
First, note that the raw fruit is "optional". You don't HAVE to eat it if you don't feel hungry. And the less fruit you eat, the less calories you will consume. Any extra calories will need to be burned off, and that means there will be less stored fat burned off on a Diet Day when you eat too much fruit. You will already be getting 180 calories from the 20 Diet wafers, and eating raw fruit will add to that number.
But in spite of the calories, eating some raw fruit on your Diet Days IS IMPORTANT if you do happen to feel hungry, or if you get thinking about food and feeling any frustration because you can't eat "regular food" on that Diet Day. The fruit is like your "Plan B" - "just in case" the Diet wafers don't work for you exactly as planned to keep your body's blood glucose at a level which prevents any feelings of hunger. Your body is not like everyone else's body, so you might need some extra carbohydrates, even if others don't.
And then there is the "psychological factor" to deal with too. You are used to eating bulky foods whenever you feel like it, so getting only 2 small Diet wafers to chew on each hour can take a little "adjusting" to. Especially when you are just starting your One Day Diet, let yourself have as much raw fruit as you want on your first few Diet Days, and don't worry about the calories or how much weight you will lose that day.
It is more important that you feel comfortable with the One Day Diet - for if you don't, then you are not likely to continue your Diet plan. And then you won't lose the weight you wanted to lose. If you stick to the plan you WILL lose weight, but you don't have to lose it so fast in the early stages. You will get used to the wafers, and will need less fruit, so the amount of weight lost on Diet Days will increase later on.
I can usually eat just an apple on my Diet Days. I call it "dinner". I sometimes will also eat an orange or grapefruit for "breakfast" or "lunch". But on some days when I was busy concentrating on my work or just too busy with things to be "thinking" about food, I have gone the entire day without any fruit at all. I don't ever remember actually feeling HUNGRY - it is usually just the THOUGHT of food that makes me want to munch on some fruit, or have that delicious red apple for my dinner. It kind of "keeps me going" to know that I will get to eat that apple for dinner.
So you can always eat a little raw fruit of the type you like best, or any mix of fruits you like, whenever you feel a need for it. If you want to keep the calories down, then just "nibble" at a small portion of the fruit, and then only eat more if you really feel you need to. Eat slowly and enjoy what you are eating, and you may find you don't need to eat more. Try to distract yourself from thinking about food, and you may not feel a need for much fruit. The Diet wafers really do a good job of keeping your BODY from feeling hungry. It's your MIND that often makes you want a snack even when your body doesn't need it.
Here's a Diet Tip: wash and cut up your raw fruit in the kitchen, then put HALF of what you expect to eat on a plate and leave the kitchen to eat in another room. If you really need more fruit to eat, you will get up and go back to the kitchen to get it. If you don't really want it, you won't bother to get it, and you will end up consuming only half the calories!
#3 - Drink lots of good drinking water - at least 8 eight-ounce glasses if possible.
Here is where some dieters just want to "groan and moan" about having to drink more water. I used to feel that way too, so let me give you some "INCENTIVES" to help you WANT to drink lots more water than you may be used to. First, here's what happens when you DON'T get enough water every day - which you could call, "First, the Bad News" ...
(A) Just as your body will store fat when it senses you are not getting enough food, your body will also store water when it senses you are not getting enough water. So NOT drinking enough water each day will just add more "water weight". Drinking MORE water will actually cause you to REDUCE weight and bulk because your body doesn't need to store so much water now. Sounds kind of "counter-intuitive", doesn't it? But it does make sense when you think about it.
(B) When you don't drink enough water, your digestive system doesn't get enough water to keep things "soft" and moving along, so you get constipated and may have to pass some painfully large and hard stools, which can create some painful hemhorroids. Drinking more water helps avoid the pain. How's that for an incentive? If you drink caffeine drinks, you need to drink even MORE water, because that drug caffeine acts a "diuretic" which causes your kidneys to flush out more water than you normally do through urination, and this will further rob your digestive tract of the water it needs, so you could gain more pain if you don't compensate by giving your body more water.
And now for "the Good News"...
(C) Drinking water puts some "bulk" in your stomach and creates a "full" feeling, so you can drink some water whenever you start thinking about food, and this might help relieve any feelings of hunger, whether they are physiological (in your body) or psychological (in your mind). Just getting "something" into your stomach can help satisfy your "need to feed". This is also a good tactic for keeping the weight off later. Just drink a glass of water about 10 or 15 minutes before a meal, and it can help you avoid over-eating because your stomach is already partly filled with water. Don't drink the water too long before the meal, or it may have left your stomach by the time you eat the food.
Incentives (A) to (C) can help you both when you are "on" a diet and AFTER you stop dieting.
Now here's the BEST INCENTIVE for drinking lots of water when you are "on" the One Day Diet...
(D) On your Diet Days you will not be getting "enough" carbohydrates to convert to glucose to supply all your body's energy needs for the next 24 hours - just enough carbs to keep you from feeling hungry. When your body doesn't have carbs in the stomach to convert to glucose, it has to use "Plan B" and start converting stored fat into glucose to meet the demand for "fuel" for all your body cells. Converting fat to glucose, or "burning fat", is a function of the liver, and during this process there are always some partially-burned fats (called "ketone bodies" or just "ketones") being produced and circulated in the bloodstream. When there is an excess of ketones in the blood, it makes the blood too acidic, and the body will try to rid itself of these partially burned fats through urination.
So if you help your body do more "flushing" by drinking lots of water, you can rid yourself of some of those partially-burned fats - which you now won't even have to burn off completely! You can burn off some of the other stored fat instead, and lose more weight on your Diet Day. Is getting rid of that extra fat a good "incentive" for you to drink lots of water? I thought so.
Now let's hope that you are planning to make a valiant attempt at drinking eight 8-ounce glasses or more per day (and not just on Diet Days, every day - but at least do it on the Diet Days to help flush out those fats called ketones). So let's see if we can make this water drinking a more pleasant experience for you.
First, you could treat yourself to some really good bottled spring water that tastes better than your local tap water. Or you could invest in a water filter to take out the chlorine taste and any bad-tasting impurities from your tap water. There is an Affinity product called M-Water which seems to make water "taste" better, and some people who don't like drinking water have reported that they do like drinking water which has been treated with M-Water (2 teaspoons of the concentrate treats a whole gallon of regular drinking water). M-Water also helps "hydrate" your body cells and enhances the absorption of nutrients and the elimination of toxic waste material from inside the cells, which might have the effect of giving your body better nutrition and reducing the need to eat more food simply to get some minerals or vitamins you were not absorbing in sufficient quantities for your body's needs. (Look for the M-Water link on the left side of this page under "Affinity Products" or click the link in this paragraph.)
FAQ: Can I Keep Drinking my Tea or Coffee on Diet Days?
If you are into herbal teas, you can substitute a mug or two of just about any herbal tea with no caffeine for one or two of the glasses of water per day, since the herbal tea is mostly plain water and may only have a few calories, or none at all.
You can also drink decaffeinated tea or coffee, as long as you don't add sugar or coffee whitener. Sorry, tea or coffee with caffeine doesn't count as a water substitute because it makes you LOSE more water, which you will just have to compensate for by drinking more ordinary water, not less. (The narcotic drug caffeine acts as a "diuretic" which stimulates your kidneys to flush out more water than usual.)
If you really need to have your "caffeine drink" on your Diet Days (and I would suggest you DO keep drinking it if you are already addicted to caffeine - or else you will experience some "caffeine withdrawal symptoms" such as headache, fatigue, or drowsiness by the afternoon) - then it will not be too bad to drink regular coffee or tea, as long as you don't add ANY sugar, honey, syrup, or artificial coffee whitener (which contains refined sugar and/or "corn syrup solids" and/or sucrose or dextrose - so read the label before using, and then don't use it). If you absolutely must have milk or cream in your coffee, then use a little bit of skim milk if possible. I have actually used 10% cream ("half and half") in three cups of coffee on a Diet Day, and did not seem to lose any less weight. (But don't tell anyone I told you that.) The most important thing is to NOT use any kind of sugar, or anything that contains sugar or corn syrup.
You can use artificial sweeteners made from saccharin or cyclamates, such as Sugar Twin(tm) or Sweet'n'Low(tm), but I would suggest you avoid the types made with Aspartame, such as Equal(tm) or NutraSweet(tm), not because they will hurt your diet plan, but because there are too many concerns about possible health risks from Aspartame (which is also used in diet soft drinks and many so-called "diet" or "sugar-free" products). We don't use Aspartame or sugar in the Diet wafers or in any of the Affinity products. In our Digestion Specialist herbal formula for constipation (heavy coffee drinkers might want to check out this product because caffeine can contribute to constipation), the herb Stevia is used to sweeten the good-tasting vanilla/orange digestive drink (which tastes much better than Metamucil(tm), in my personal opinion).
While you might find it only in your local health store, this natural herb "Stevia" is healthy and safe - and much sweeter than anything else! Stevia is about 300 times sweeter than raw sugar cane. It comes in liquid or powder form, and some brands are much better than others, so ask for advice or try more than one brand. You would be wise to use Stevia instead of any kind of "artificial sweetener" like Aspartame that may later be found to have some harmful side-effects (or already does). I have seen Stevia available in those little paper one-shot packets too, though it is hard to find. You might find Stevia useful as a sugar replacement in many other drinks and foods.
Refined sugar is not your friend, and may be the main reason you gained weight in the first place. If you ingest any sugar (or corn syrup or alcohol) on your Diet Day, it will quickly stop the fat-burning process.
I would suggest you try to avoid too much sugar on your Food Days too, and after you finish your Diet plan. Stevia has an insignificant amount of calories, while sugar adds 15 calories per teaspoon. Stevia will not upset your blood glucose level and make you feel hungry again 20 minutes later, but refined sugar or corn syrup will. And that may be the reason the food manufacturers put sugar into almost every kind of processed food - it gets you to want more and eat more and then buy more. It also forces your pancreas to secrete more insulin to control the elevated blood glucose levels caused by ingesting sugar, and this could eventually contribute to developing the debilitating disease called diabetes (also known as "sugar diabetes").
There is no refined sugar in any natural food, only more complex sugars like fructose or lactose. It's not natural, and you don't really need refined sugar when there are other ways to make things taste sweet. Using fructose (it looks like regular white sugar) would be better, though it does have about the same number of calories per teaspoon as sucrose. But fructose does not cause the insulin reactions or "sugar highs" that sucrose causes. Sucrose can quickly be converted to glucose right in your stomach, while fructose has to get into your intestine to be fully digested.
The "sugar rant" will end now. But you will hear more about sugar in another FAQ answer.
FAQ: How Much Fresh Fruit and What Kinds of Fruit
Should I Eat on Diet Days?
The main purpose of the fruit you eat on Diet Days is to give you something more substantial than the Diet wafers, if you feel you need it. Consider the raw fruit as your "snack food".
The fruit is "optional" and the less fruit you eat, the less calories you will have to burn off to lose weight. The 2 Diet wafers you eat each hour on Diet Days will keep most people from feeling any real hunger at all, but since everyone has a different body chemistry and body mass, you might feel hungry occasionally, especially if you see someone else eating or get thinking about "real food".
It is more important to eat as much fruit as you need to avoid feeling hungry or "deprived", than it is to worry about getting a few extra calories. During your first few Diet Days, you are encouraged to eat as much fruit as you want while you get used to not having "regular food" or any "snack foods" to munch on, and get used to eating the chocolate or vanilla Diet wafers all day. You may not lose weight as quickly when you eat more fruit, but it is much more important not to feel deprived or discouraged and be tempted to quit your Diet plan before you really see how easy it can be to successfully lose weight fast with the One Day Diet. Soon you will find that eating (for example) an orange for breakfast or lunch and an apple for dinner may be all you need on the average Diet Day.
When I would weigh myself on the morning of a Food Day, using an expensive and accurate electronic scale that measures weight in one-tenth of a pound increments, I found that I was usually 2.0 pounds lighter, compared to my weight on the morning of the previous Diet Day. My weight after a Food Day would vary, depending on what I ate that day, but since I was quite consistent in what I ate every Diet Day, that 2.0 weight loss was quite consistent too. Keep in mind that everyone's body is different, and that men can lose weight faster than women because they have a higher percentage of muscle cells which burn calories even while at rest. You may not lose a full 2 pounds per Diet Day, but I did that while eating one large orange and one large apple each Diet Day (and nothing else but the Diet wafers, water, and four cups of coffee with artificial sweetener). I never felt hungry, even on the occasional Diet Day when I was so busy I forgot to eat any fruit at all.
But if you need to eat more fruit than that, then go ahead and eat as much as you need to feel satisfied. Just try not to eat more fruit than you really need. Get yourself a small portion, then get out of the kitchen, and then only go back for more if you really feel like eating more. You may find that your desire for more "snack food" is actually less than your desire to get up and go to get it. Don't let someone "serve" you, get it yourself. This is a good habit to learn, because you can use it on Food Days and after you finish your Diet plan, and it will help you stop "snacking" so much. We gain weight because we "mindlessly" keep reaching for more of those snack foods, more out of habit than a real need for more food. Make it a little less convenient to keep reaching and munching, and you will find you munch less of those foods which you don't really need but are making you gain weight. And when you know you only have a small amount of that yummy food available right now, you will pay more attention to it and get more enjoyment out of what you have.
If you are used to eating at night after your regular dinner, you might feel hungry after you have already eaten your 20 Diet wafers in the first 10 hours. In that case, it's okay to eat some more fruit or eat another 2 Diet wafers per hour until you stop feeling hungry or go to sleep. It won't hurt your Diet plan to do this, but you may lose a little less weight on that Diet Day, and your bottle of 140 wafers will not last a full 14 days if you eat more than 20 per Diet Day. The Diet wafers contain only 9 calories each, so it's more important not to feel hungry or discouraged than to get a few extra calories.
Fruits with less "fruit sugar" (fructose) will have less calories. Apples and peaches are recommended because they have relatively few calories, contain lots of fiber which makes you feel "full", and are generally very good for your health and digestion. Fruits like pineapples, grapes, blueberries, and any fruits which taste quite "sweet" contain the most fructose and calories, so don't eat too much of these. Note that avocados have a surprisingly high fat content, and should be avoided on Diet Days.
The more calories you consume on a Diet Day, the less stored fat you will burn off that day. It's a "trade-off" between losing a little less weight and being comfortable with your Diet plan OR losing weight faster and not being comfortable with it. You should always choose to feel comfortable and happy on every Diet Day, or you will start thinking it's just too hard to keep dieting - and then you might quit and not lose any weight at all! It's better to lose weight less quickly than to not lose weight at all. Does it really matter if you lose 20 pounds in one month, or 20 pounds in six weeks? You will still lose the 20 pounds of excess body fat, and that's the real goal, isn't it? So eat as much raw fruit as you feel you need, and don't worry about whether you will lose 1.0 pounds or 1.5 pounds on that Diet Day. You can still lose weight much faster than with most other diet plans.
Totally avoid all candied or canned fruit and any jams or jellies because they will contain refined sugar or syrup. If it isn't in the same state as it came off the tree, don't eat it. Also avoid most dried fruits that may have sugar added, such as banana chips - but dried apricots and apples usually have no sugar added and are fine. Raisins and dates have a naturally high fructose content. Maraschino cherries (used in cocktails and sundaes) contain sugar and should be avoided. But natural raw cherries are fine.
Do not drink fruit JUICE on Diet Days (or only drink a little) because the juice contains too high a concentration of fructose, compared to the raw fruit. One 8 ounce glass of apple juice or grape juice contains about 180 calories - and that's more than half the calories in a whole day's supply of Diet wafers. But if you happen to be out somewhere and feel a need for more than your Diet wafers (or you forgot to take some with you) and you can't get any raw fruit, then drinking a small glass of 100% pure fruit juice like orange or grapefruit juice (NOT any "fruit drink" or any fruit juice with sugar or alcohol, such as apple cider) is a good "emergency" plan to avoid feeling hungry. Remember that eating any sugar or alcohol will quickly stop the fat-burning process, so you won't lose weight that day.
In summary, the fruit is "optional" and you may not need to eat very much fruit on your Diet Days. But eat a small portion of your favorite fruit if you feel hungry or get thinking too much about food, and then eat a little more if that was not enough to satisfy you. Stock up in advance with your favorite fruits so you can have a little variety to make your Diet Days more enjoyable.
FAQ: I Can't Eat the Diet Wafers. What Else Can I Do?
Let's be perfectly clear about what the One Day Diet wafers are, and what they are not. (And if you can't eat dairy products or drink milk, please read this section now, BEFORE you order One Day Diet wafers!)
The term "wafers" may make you think they are like a biscuit or cookie, which is not true. They are small and round and hard (but easily crunched), and resemble a large pill or an Alka Seltzer tablet - about one inch in diameter. A more descriptive term might be "round tablet".
The Diet wafers are NOT a food bar or a candy or a meal replacement. Please don't expect them to be. They are not meant to be a tasty treat, though they do taste quite sweet because they contain natural dehydrated cane juice - a little more than 1.5 grams of raw sugar per wafer.
The chocolate Diet wafers are NOT like a chocolate bar. They are flavored with natural cocoa, but the flavor is more like "milk chocolate" than "dark chocolate" and they are NOT like a chocolate candy because they also contain other ingredients. (The taste is something like a hot cocoa drink or "hot chocolate" condensed into a small, hard tablet.) Please don't expect to be eating a kind of chocolate cookie.
The Diet wafers are meant to provide nutrition and ingredients which keep you from feeling hungry, and the cocoa is just there to give a chocolate flavor for those who like the taste of chocolate. Similarly, the natural vanilla in the vanilla Diet wafers is there to provide a real vanilla flavor for those who prefer the taste of vanilla. I would say they taste very much like a vanilla milk shake condensed down into a solid tablet.
The Diet wafers are NOT a "diet pill" - even though they are formed in the shape of a large pill. You do not swallow them whole, for they are too large to swallow safely. You chew them or suck on them. You can even crush them to a powder and take them with a bit of water or fruit juice.
Unlike the "diet pills" you often see advertised, they do NOT contain any kind of drugs, stimulants, or herbs meant to suppress your appetite or speed up your metabolism. The Diet wafers keep you from feeling hungry simply by supplying a measured amount of natural dehydrated cane juice per hour. The way the wafers control hunger is no different than the way eating any carbohydrate (except refined sugar) keeps you from feeling hungry after you eat. Your body digests it and converts it to glucose. As long as the level of glucose in your blood is at a normal level, you will not feel hungry.
There is just enough natural dehydrated cane juice in the 2 Diet wafers you eat per hour to keep your blood glucose level at normal levels and avoid any feelings of hunger. Though natural dehydrated cane juice is a sugar, it is not converted to glucose as quickly as refined sugar, and does not trigger an insulin reaction which drives down your blood glucose level too far and makes you hungry again - which is what happens when you eat refined sugar (or drink alcohol).
If you want to lose weight and keep it off, try to limit the amount of refined sugar you get in your food supply - which is difficult because nearly every processed food has sugar added to it. No wonder we are all getting fat! Cutting down on processed foods is the best way to avoid sugar. Make your own food, and you can control what goes into it. Better yet, eat more fresh raw fruits and vegetables instead of the processed versions, and you can avoid excess sugar and salt and those unwanted "chemical" additives and "preservatives".
The Diet wafers are quite small - about one inch in diameter. If you stack three U.S. 25-cent coins on top of each other, that is about the size of one Diet wafer. It is not their size or bulk that keeps you from feeling hungry, it is the natural ingredients they contain. They are meant to provide basic nutrients and keep you from feeling hungry, but are not meant to be a satisfying food. That's what the raw fruit is for.
So there you have some information about what to expect and what not to expect from the One Day Diet wafers. Now, let's discuss why a few people say they can't eat the wafers, or don't like to eat the wafers.
A small percentage of the people who try the One Day Diet have difficulty eating the Diet wafers, either because they do not like the taste or texture, or because they are "lactose intolerant".
Being lactose intolerant means they cannot digest the lactose (and the casein) found in milk or dairy products, and so ingesting lactose can create cramps or a feeling of nausea. Because the Diet wafers contain "condensed milk" and "whey protein" - two ingredients found in milk - then if a person cannot drink milk or eat dairy products without feeling ill, then they cannot eat the Diet wafers either. The only solution for people who can't tolerate milk or dairy products is to NOT try the One Day Diet. It's just not for you if you can't drink milk or eat dairy products, so please don't even buy the One Day Diet. Sorry, but you are just going to have to try some other weight loss plan.
Well, there is one possible solution... there is a product which can help digest lactose, and this might work with the Diet wafers. It is used in a brand of milk called "Lactaid", which even people who are lactose-intolerant can drink. It might be worth a try, but I cannot say that it will work for you. You will have to find out where to buy the product that lets you digest lactose and then see if it works - and it will mean an extra expense if you have to take that product every time you need to eat your Diet wafers.
Milk products are found in most "coffee whitener" or "coffee creamer" products like CoffeeMate, and this gives the Diet wafers a similar texture to those products - somewhat "chewy". While most people find the Diet wafers tasty, or at least palatable, a small percentage of people just don't like that texture or taste and thus don't enjoy eating the Diet wafers. I would have to say that once you bite into the crunchy Diet wafers and start chewing them, it is a bit like eating CoffeeMate(tm). Yes, I have tried eating a spoonful of CoffeeMate - and I liked it. But some people do not. As with any food or food product, it's a matter of personal taste. (By the way, DO NOT use CoffeeMate(tm) or coffee whiteners in your coffee or tea if you want to drink it on your Diet Days, for CoffeeMate and those other products contain SUGAR - and way too much sugar for a product that is supposed to be a substitute for cream! You cannot burn off stored fat when you are putting SUGAR into your body!)
Solution: If you are one of the people who just don't like the taste or the texture of the Diet wafers, then I can only suggest that you break up the wafers and mix them in with some fruit, or crush them into a powder and mix them with water or a little fruit juice (or a little low-fat milk if that's the only way you can do it). Or just break the wafers into pieces small enough to swallow whole with a drink of water. Whatever way you can get 2 of them into your stomach every hour will make the One Day Diet work for you.
But if that still doesn't work for YOU, then you might consider whether it is more important to LIKE the Diet wafers, or to like losing weight with a simple, easy, and effective weight loss plan like the One Day Diet. It's a little like taking a medicine which does you good, but doesn't taste good to you... if you want the benefits, you just have to take it anyway, even if you don't like it very much. It's up to you. You will just have to choose whether you can put up with some Diet wafers every second day, or whether you should just give up on the One Day Diet and try something else. But what could be easier than the One Day Diet?
I personally like the vanilla wafers, and I enjoy eating them. My wife likes the chocolate wafers best, but eats the vanilla ones too. But I can sympathize with anyone who doesn't enjoy the Diet wafers, and hope that they can at least tolerate them, because I think it is definitely worth putting up with the taste or texture to be able to lose weight so easily with the One Day Diet plan. It's only for one day at a time, and I think you will find the benefits of a simple and successful weight loss plan outweigh the inconvenience of eating some Diet wafers that may not taste that good to you. If you are like most people who have tried many other diet plans that failed, it might be worth your while to do the One Day Diet plan even if you don't enjoy the Diet wafers, because this diet really does work.
I was surpised when one customer told me her husband didn't want to keep doing the One Day Diet because he found it too "inconvenient" to have to eat the 2 Diet wafers every hour on Diet Days. I don't see how difficult or "inconvenient" it can be to just take out two small wafers and pop them into his mouth once per hour, but that's what I heard. Some people will come up with any excuse to self-sabotage their weight loss plans, and I think that may have just been his own personal excuse to quit. To me, taking 2 wafers per hour is a very small "price" to pay in order to gain all the benefits of losing the excess weight you want to lose - especially if nothing else you tried has worked for you.
I don't think you will find an easier diet plan than this. You get to eat all your favorite foods every second day, and on the Diet Days you can eat all your favorite fruits. The first time I tried it, I lost 20 pounds in 14 days. I never felt hungry, and I was surpised at how easy it had been to lose all that weight in less than three weeks - while eating whatever I wanted every second day. Your results may be different, but I think you will be pleased with whatever weight loss you achieve with the One Day Diet, and how simple and easy it was. Even if you don't lose weight that fast, you WILL lose weight if you faithfully follow the simple directions of the One Day Diet.
IMPORTANT! Don't forget that it is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL that you DO NOT DIET ON FOOD DAYS! Don't do any other kind of diet at the same time, and don't skip meals or cut calories on your Food Days.
On every Food Day you MUST get as many calories as your body was used to getting BEFORE you started dieting. If you don't pay attention to this, you risk lowering your metabolism, which will prevent you from losing weight and may actually cause you to gain weight when you resume your usual diet. This is what causes the "yo yo diet" effect with many failed diet programs. Whatever diet plan you use, you should pay attention to this warning.
You do not have to count calories exactly, but try to eat about the same amount of food you were eating before the Diet plan started. It would be safer to eat MORE than to eat LESS. You can always burn off any extra calories, but you can't make your body raise its metabolic rate once it has lowered it - at least, not without a lot of exercise. You must not let your body sense that food is in short supply, for after three days in a row with reduced calories it will assume you are "starving" and protect you by storing fat and lowering the rate at which it burns calories.
Since in any three-day period you may have two Diet Days with 180 calories on either side of one Food Day, you MUST make sure that on the Food Day you are getting the FULL amount of calories your body usually gets when you are eating "normally". So don't ever do two Diet Days in a row. Always do a Food Day between two Diet Days. But you can do two or more Food Days in a row any time you want to, or need to. You won't lose any weight on those Food Days, but you won't do any harm to your Diet plan, other than to take longer to reach your weight loss goal. You may lose some time, but you can still lose the weight. And that will be great!
What is the Affinity Money-Back Guarantee,
and How Do I Claim It If Necessary?
Before I describe the procedure for claiming a refund under the money-back guarantee, let me say that I would be pleased to get a phone call from you if you are having any trouble with losing weight on the One Day Diet. There might be something you are unknowingly doing wrong that I could point out to you. Or you might just need some encouragement from someone who did the Diet successfully. Or if there is something about the Diet wafers or the Diet plan itself that is a problem for you personally, then I'd like to know about it. Maybe I can help you solve that problem - or if not, then I can help you get your money back.
If you happen to have any difficulty in obtaining satisfactory service at Affinity Lifestyles Inc. (702-310-5437 MON-FRI 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific Time), which is where you should call first about any shipping or billing problems, then please call me if the matter is not resolved to your satisfaction, and I will follow up for you as your personal Distributor.
So feel free to phone me at my home number, any day from 11 AM to 11 PM Eastern Time (same as New York or Miami). Just don't call me before 11 AM, or you may get a sleepy guy you just woke up after a late night of working on the Internet! Here's my phone number: 905-891-7436. If you are worried about long distance fees just ask me to call you back at my expense, if you are in the USA or Canada.
Now I do know that the One Day Diet really works, because I lost 20 pounds in 14 days while using it for the first time in April 2003 when I was a new customer, before I became an active distributor of Affinity natural health products. But YOU won't really know that until after you try it yourself, so we want you to be able to try this great weight loss product "risk free". Let us take the risk for you, by offering you a money-back guarantee.
Although the overall "failure rate" for diet plans started by people in the USA is about 88%, which makes it pretty risky for the seller of a weight loss product to offer a satisfaction guarantee, we are so confident in the "success rate" of the One Day Diet plan that we have included it with all the other Affinity products which are sold with a 30-day money-back satisfaction guarantee.
All we ask of you is that you be serious about losing weight and sincerely make an effort to follow the One Day Diet plan guidelines. (Actually, it turned out to be not much of a risk, because only a few percent of my One Day Diet customers have requested a refund - and some of those had unforeseen reasons to stop dieting, such as discovering that they were pregnant or that they had a medical condition and should not be dieting now.)
ALL the natural health products marketed by Affinity Lifestyles Inc. (or Affinity Just-2.com) through its Independent Distributors come with a "30-Day Money-Back Guarantee" which starts on the date the product is delivered by UPS or the US Postal Service. If the opened bottle is received AFTER the 30-day guarantee period, there will be no refund.
In all cases, you will need to phone to obtain an authorization number before returning a product for a refund. Call Affinity Lifestyles Inc. in Las Vegas, NV, at 702-310-5437 during business hours MONDAY to FRIDAY from 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific Time (or 11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time).
I wish we could be more generous with the refund policy, but please understand that the Company is already going to lose the entire cost of the product you ordered and used (they can't resell it), plus the cost of shipping it to you, plus any other costs in handling your order and your refund. There is a limit to how much they can afford to risk losing when they guarantee YOUR success in losing weight. You only stand to lose the relatively small cost of mailing or shipping the product back to Affinity within 30 days (and you may have already saved that much on the cost of your "regular food" if you actually tried the Diet plan for more than a few Diet days).
The mailing address for returning Affinity products is listed at the end of this section. Please save the invoice which comes in your package, and save the package itself so you can use it to ship the product if necessary.
One bottle of 140 Diet wafers will last for 7 days, so do not delay if you decide to ask for a refund under the satisfaction guarantee, and allow for the time it will take to ship the bottle back to Affinity through the post office or a courier like UPS. With products like Sea Energy and PowerMax and M-Water and Lose And Snooze and Extra-Virgin Coconut Oil which may "leak" during shipment after the original seal has been broken, please send back just the "empty bottle" without any liquid remaining in it, and screw the top on tight. With these liquid or "leaky" products you are welcome to use the remaining product or let a friend try it, if you wish to transfer it to another container so you can ship back the empty bottle.
In order to control fraudulent claims (it happens), we must insist that the original bottle or container and any unused product (except those four "leaky" products noted above) is actually returned and received before a refund can be processed. The guarantee covers the original purchase price of the product being returned, but not the cost of shipping it back to Affinity Just-2 in Las Vegas, NV, USA. (Affinity already paid the cost of delivering any products which were shipped to locations in the lower 48 states of the USA.)
If you decide to return an Affinity product because you were not satisfied with the results you experienced, or for any other reason, please use the original packaging if possible and either include a copy of the original invoice, or if you have lost it, then include a written note with your full name, billing address, phone number, and email address (if possible) so that the Affinity staff can search for your original order - and so that your returned product will be credited to the appropriate account (yours). It is not required, but we would appreciate a short note explaining the reason you were not satisfied, to help us serve our customers better and improve our products.
If you need to cancel your order, please call the Affinity Order Desk immediately at 702-310-5437 MON-FRI 8-5 Pacific Time. But if the product has already been shipped (within 2 business days from your Order date), then your best option is to "refuse delivery" when the UPS delivery person or mailman arrives at your door and asks for a signature. And tell all the residents of your household NOT to sign for the package from Affinity in Las Vegas, NV. Then the post office or courier service will return the package to Affinity and bill them for the return shipment. Then, seeing that the delivery was refused and the product was returned, Affinity will process a credit to your credit card or issue a refund check to you after they get the product back. To follow up on your refund, you can call the number above. If you accept delivery of the product, then you will have to pay the cost of returning it yourself.
PLEASE NOTE: There are a few other companies selling "One Day Diet" wafers made by a different manufacturer, so be sure you actually ordered your "Original One Day Diet" product through Affinity or one of its Independent Distributors before you try to send the product back to Affinity. Obviously, if you did not buy it from us, we cannot refund the money we never received from you, and we cannot look up your information in our database if it was never entered there. (Some other independent Affinity distributors collect payment and ship the products from their own warehouse, so if you ordered from another Affinity distributor (not from me), then please contact that distributor directly to claim your refund, instead of sending your product to Affinity headquarters. In other words, send it back to the place it was shipped from. If you send it to the wrong place, you can't expect to get a refund, and you may not get your package back.)
WARNING: I frequently receive phone calls from people who heard a "One Day Diet" commercial on their local radio station in the USA and ordered through a 1-800 toll-fee phone number. While Affinity Lifestyles is running 30-minute radio infomercials nationally in the USA and along the Canadian border, other short radio commercials may be from another company entirely - not Affinity and not an Affinity distributor like me. So do NOT return THEIR diet product to Affinity if you did not actually order it from Affinity. Check first! There is an image of a bottle of Affinity One Day Diet wafers on this page, in the left margin below. It contains 140 Diet wafers, says "The Original One Day Diet" and "Improved Formula" on the blue and yellow label, and has the Affinity phone number on the bottom of the label on the left side of the large AFFINITY logo (if you call Affinity be sure to mention that your Distributor is "michael").
The easiet way to tell if you did NOT order from me or from Affinity is that we do NOT sell a product called "Sun Crystals" which some other companies and distributors are bundling with the One Day Diet wafers. (Affinity will not sell the Sun Crystals product because it contains Aspartame - a "not-natural" ingredient which may have some alleged health risks. And the One Day Diet works just fine without taking any "Sun Crystals".)
Also note that a few companies which ARE independent distributors of Affinity products might have chosen to obtain and sell the Sun Crystals or other products along with the Affinity One Day Diet. (Those companies will be shipping the Affinity products themselves, so the products should be returned directly to them, not to Affinity.)
For those of you who may have ordered from this company which advertises on national radio, and did not save the invoice or package and have now forgotten the phone number, I am sorry I cannot help you because I don't know their name or how to reach them either. You will probably have to keep listening to the same radio station where you heard their commercial until you hear their phone number again.
There is also another company advertising One Day Diet on the major search engine sites (and bundling it with "Sun Crystals"), but their web site does not say who they are or where they are located, and their "Contact" page shows no names or phone numbers or physical address, only an on-line form you fill out which does not show the email address. You will have to fill out their web site's Contact form to find out how to return their product to them, if you lost the original invoice or threw out the packaging. You can probably find them by doing a search on Yahoo.com for "one day diet" and looking at the "paid sponsor ads" near the top of the page. (Personally, I prefer not to deal with any company that hides its identity and does not show a mailing address and phone number on its web site. I would wonder what they are hiding, and why they don't want anyone to know who they are.)
The least expensive way to ship the returned product(s) from the U.S.A. is to go to your local post office and send the package by standard Parcel Post. Delivery may take several days, so if you are close to the 30-day point since your Order Date, you may want to ship it by "express" delivery. We use UPS "3 to 5 business day" ground shipment, but note that this method can take up to 5 days (and 2 more if over a weekend, because they do not deliver on Saturday or Sunday) if you live far from Nevada. If in doubt about how to best ship your returned product(s), call the Affinity head office number at
702-310-5437 during business hours on Monday through Friday: 8 AM to 5 PM PACIFIC Time (same time zone as Los Angeles, CA), or 11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time (same as New York, NY), and tell the switchboard operator you wish to return an Affinity product.
Please ship all Affinity product(s) to:
Affinity Lifestyles Inc.
Dept. Q
3035 Patrick Street, Suite #15
Las Vegas, Nevada,
U.S.A. 89120
Don't forget to include a photocopy of the invoice, or a note with your full name and contact information! If you send a package with no information about who sent it, Affinity cannot issue a refund to you because they won't know who you are.
If you paid for your order by credit card, a credit will be issued on the same credit card within a reasonable time after the returned product is actually received at Affinity headquarters in Las Vegas, NV. If you paid by a U.S. dollar money order or bank draft, your refund will be mailed to you in the form of a company check. So please allow a reasonable time for the product to arrive at Affinity and your refund to be processed and mailed to you before expecting your refund check to arrive.
Thank you for trying the One Day Diet and/or our other Affinity natural health products! I hope we can be of service to you again whenever one of our other products may help you.
How Do I Place A New Order On-Line?
How Do I Place A New Order By Telephone?
You can use the link below to order any of the Affinity natural health products on-line. If you are reading this from a page printed on paper, the hyper link will not work by clicking on it, so use the full URL which is printed just below the link. Just copy it or type it into the address window of your web browser (such as InternetExplorer) while connected to the Internet. (Note that the web site will not let you order products if you only type in the first part of the URL.)
This on-line Order Form is installed on a "secure server" which encrypts all the data you type in with a 128-bit security code to prevent any unauthorized parties from reading your credit card information. You can check that the little "padlock" icon on your browser appears "closed" instead of open, which indicates you are then connected to a secure server. (It is actually safer to order by credit card using a secure server on the Internet than to hand over your credit card to a restaurant waiter or a gas station attendant. And be aware that cell phones and wireless phones can be monitored by third parties who might hear your credit card information when you give it over these types of wireless phones.)
You may pay with any major credit card, or may mail a personal check drawn on a U.S. bank account, or may mail a US dollar money order. Please have your credit card at hand when you place your order.
Click here to ORDER on-line
Or copy and paste this URL into your web browser program's address window:
https://astrologyzine.com/health/order.shtml
Toll-Free Order Line for USA and Canada only: 1-888-524-0324
Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM PACIFIC Time, or 11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time (Affinity Order Desk)
For information about the One Day Diet or other Affinity products call Michael at:
905-891-7436 (11 AM to 11 PM Eastern Time, GMT-5)
To get a UPS tracking number or help with shipping or accounting matters, call Angelica at:
702-310-5437 (11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time or 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific Time)
To order by telephone from OUTSIDE the USA and Canada, call the Affinity head office at:
702-310-5437 Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM PACIFIC Time, or 11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time (Affinity Order Desk)
You will be asked for a Member I.D. when ordering by phone from the Affinity Distribution Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Please say you were referred by Member I.D. "michael".
If you have any problem with ordering on-line or by phone, please call me personally at
905-891-7436 from 11 AM to 11 PM Eastern Time, any day of the week.
I will be glad to help or answer questions about the products. I use the One Day Diet, Sea Energy PowerMax, Alli-C, Performance Specialist, Digestion Specialist, and Coconut Oil myself. - Michael
My email address is: michael@iwouldbuy.com.
Thank you for ordering our Affinity 100% natural health product(s)!
How Do I Check On My Shipment?
How Do I Get A UPS Tracking Number?
The phone number to call is listed at the end of this section.
If your Order was shipped to an address located in the lower 48 states of the USA, it was most likely shipped by UPS ground shipment, which can take "3 to 5 business days" to arrive. Since Affinity guarantees to ship within 2 business days from the time you place your Order, it can take up to "7 business days" to arrive. If the time period extends over a weekend, add 2 more calendar days. UPS does not usually deliver on Saturday or Sunday, and Affinity is closed on weekends. (If you ordered UPS "express shipment" at extra cost, expected delivery times will have been quoted to you when you placed your Order.)
So if your package shipped by UPS to a mainland USA address has not arrived at your door within 7 to 9 calendar days, there may be a problem with the delivery, and you should contact your local UPS office and ask them to "track" your shipment. To do this, you will need a UPS "tracking number" which should have been sent to you by email after your order was shipped. If you did not provide a working email address, or your email got deleted by some mail filter, you can obtain your tracking number by calling the Affinity shipping department (ask for Shanna). Then call UPS and tell them your tracking number, and they should be able to find exactly where your package is or what happened to it. UPS also has an on-line service where you can look up your tracking information on their web site if you enter the correct number.
When delivery is to be made to an office, an apartment building, or certain other types of locations where the householder may not be the one who accepts delivery, the shipment must be "signed for" by the person receiving it at that address as a security measure. If you later claim to have not received your shipment, the UPS office can tell you the name of the person who received it for you and signed for it, and you will have to contact them to get your package. Please have your Order shipped only to an address where you know it will be received by a trusted person, and not be exposed to theft if it gets left at the door because no one was home to accept delivery.
If the UPS delivery person finds no one there to sign for the shipment, he or she will leave a notice for you to call the UPS local office to arrange a second attempt at delivery. If that notice is taken away or somehow lost, you may not be aware that UPS has already tried to deliver your shipment. If there is no response from you to that notice, after a certain period of time UPS may ship the package back to Affinity.
So please keep in mind that sometimes a delivery notice may have been stolen or blown away in the wind, or otherwise lost, and so you may not have seen it.
With a parcel that must be signed for, if your local UPS office is working efficiently, they will either make a second delivery the next business day, or try to phone you to arrange a second attempt at delivery when you are home - so make sure you have included the correct phone number with your Order.
If you expect to be away from home when the shipment arrives, try to arrange for a neighbor or someone to check your mail and look for the UPS notice, so that they can call UPS and arrange to accept the shipment themselves on your behalf if you will not be home soon to do this yourself. Or arrange to ship your product(s) to a trusted third party who WILL be there to receive the delivery. If no one accepts delivery on the second attempt, your shipment may be sent back. Or you may be asked to pay a fee to UPS to make an extra trip to deliver it to you. Or you may have to make a trip to pick it up yourself at the local UPS office.
But in most cases, the delivery of your package will not require a signature. So please be careful to have your product(s) shipped to an address where they will be safe if the delivery person leaves them at your door, or have them shipped where a trusted person is likely to be there to receive the package during business hours. The delivery person will often try to leave the package at the back door if no one is there to answer the main door - assuming that access to the back is possible. He or she might put it inside an open garage door, or in a partly concealed place at your front door, or someplace where passers-by will not notice it and be tempted to steal it while you are not there. So if you have not received your shipment within the expected time, check these places to see if it was actually delivered while you were out and left in some safer place than on your front doorstep.
If your shipment was sent to Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, or any overseas country in the world, it will have been sent by U.S. Parcel Post (or express post if you requested and paid the extra fees). Delivery times will vary because of the distances involved, customs inspections at your country's border, and the efficiency of your local postal service.
For shipments to Canada, expect delivery to take at least 10 days, and expect to pay the 7% federal tax (GST) on the value of the product(s) in Canadian dollars, plus a small "customs brokerage" fee, to your postman when he delivers your package. When there are taxes to be collected by your postman, the package must be signed for, and usually a delivery notice will be left if there was no one home to receive it and pay the fees. They do not take personal checks, but they will usually be able to process a credit card payment.
For shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and other countries, please take the same precautions to avoid theft as mentioned in the section above regarding delivery by UPS to the mainland USA. Try to use a shipping address where a trusted person will be there during business hours to receive your package.
Please don't hesitate to call the number below if you think your shipment may have been lost or misdirected, but do allow a reasonable time for the order processing and shipping, such as the 7 to 9 calendar days mentioned above for mainland USA destinations. The farther you live from Las Vegas, Nevada, the longer the delivery time will be, so if you live on the East Coast of the USA, expect it to take up to 9 days. Florida and the New England states seem to take the longest time for delivery.
So please wait those 7 to 9 days before you call Affinity because you are concerned that there may be a delivery problem. We sometimes have people call us about a "lost shipment" and then call us back the same day to say it just arrived a few hours later - or that they found it in their garage or at their back door a few days after it had been delivered.
Regarding shipment tracking or any delivery issues, please phone the Affinity Lifestyles Inc. head office number at
702-310-5437 during business hours on Monday through Friday:
8 AM to 5 PM PACIFIC Time (same time zone as Los Angeles, CA),
OR
11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time (same as New York, NY).
If you happen to have any difficulties in contacting or dealing directly with Affinity, please contact your personal Affinity Distributor, Michael Star, at:
Phone: 905-891-7436 (11 AM to 11 PM Eastern Time, GMT-5)
Email: michael@iwouldbuy.com
Where Do I Return A Product?
If you wish to return a product under the Affinity 30-day money-back satisfaction guarantee, please call Affinity's head office at the number below to obtain an authorization for a refund.
Please use the original packaging if possible, and ship the bottle with any unused product (but not any liquid product) to this special address below, using the U.S. Post Office parcel post service, or a courier service like UPS. The cost of shipping a product back for a refund is your own responsibility, and Affinity will not accept any return shipments that require payment on delivery. For small and light shipments, you may find the U.S. Postal Service is the most economical, since courier services usually have set a minumum fee of several dollars, no matter what the shipping weight is.
When returning opened bottles of any liquid product that may leak during shipment, such as Sea Energy, PowerMax, or M-Water, or one that might melt and leak, such as Extra-Virgin Coconut Oil, please send only the "empty bottle" and replace the cap tightly. But if the bottle was never opened the seal has NOT been broken, please send back the entire bottle and contents so that the unused product may be re-sold. (If you need to empty the bottle of any remaining liquid product, then you can just dispose of the product, or use the remaining product yourself, or give it to a friend to try for themselves. But we would prefer that you use as much of the product yourself as possible, to give it a fair chance of working for you. And feel free to contact your personal Affinity Distributor to get any advice or help in using the product effectively. We are here to help you!)
Affinity Lifestyles Inc.
Dept. Q
3035 Patrick Street, Suite #15
Las Vegas, Nevada,
U.S.A. 89120
Don't forget to include a photocopy of the invoice, or a note with your full name and contact information, exactly as you entered on your original order form!
If you send a package with no information about who sent it, Affinity cannot issue a refund to you because they won't know who you are. Please allow a reasonable time for your package to arrive and the refund to be processed.
For advice or help on returning a product, or help with shipment tracking or any delivery issues, or to follow up on a returned product and the proper credit to your credit card account or the issuing of a refund check, please phone the Affinity Lifestyles Inc. head office number at
702-310-5437 during business hours on Monday through Friday:
8 AM to 5 PM PACIFIC Time (same time zone as Los Angeles, CA),
OR
11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time (same as New York, NY).
Please tell them that your Affinity Distributor is Member I.D. "michael".
There will be more Frequently Asked Questions and the answers added to this page as I get more from the One Day Diet users, so check here first if you have some questions of your own, then if you don't see an answer, email me and I will try to add the answer here. --Michael
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Order One Day Diet on-line or by telephone direct to the Affinity Distribution Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Shipping is FREE to the lower 48 states of the U.S.A. via UPS "3 to 5 business day" ground shipment.
Please allow at least 7 "business days" from Order date for delivery to your door.
One Day Diet may be shipped to Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, and almost all other countries by US Parcel Post "for personal use" (maximum 5). Shipping costs are extra.
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If you are allergic to dairy products or are lactose-intolerant, please note that the One Day Diet
list of ingredients includes "condensed milk" and "whey protein".
If drinking milk makes you feel sick, you should not order the One Day Diet wafers.
If you are diabetic, please note that the One Day Diet list of ingredients includes carbohydrates in the form of "natural dehydrated cane juice". Eating 20 Diet wafers per Diet Day will supply a total of 35 grams of raw sugar, or 3.5 grams per hour when you eat 2 wafers per hour for 10 hours.
Important Notice:
If you have a medical condition or are pregnant or are breast-feeding a baby, you should consult your personal physician before you start using the One Day Diet or ANY weight loss program. As people vary, so does an individual's weight loss.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not review or test herbal products classed as a "food supplement". The following statement is required by the U.S. FDA:
DISCLAIMER: This product line has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product line is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.
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