The Promise Diet™ -- a Radical Approach to Permanent Weight Loss

On October 23, 2002, after much internal debate, I drank a bottle of Pepsi, cut the label up to make a card, and with that card made a promise to my daughter for her 6th birthday that I would never drink pop again.

That wasn't as bad as I had expected it to be, so on March 26, 2003, after more internal debate, at a birthday celebration at McDonalds with my family, I ate a super-sized order of french fries and then promised my two-year-old that I would never eat french fries or onion rings or fried potato chips or Fritos or Doritos or other fried chips, ever again.

I didn't know it then, but these promises would lead to what I now call the Promise Diet(TM). Through a series of food promises over two years -- what I now call PUBIMO Promises(TM) -- I've learned how to short-circuit the need for discipline and I've snapped the tyranny of food's rule over me. As a result I now weigh 115 pounds less than my all-time high and I'm still losing, with only 25 pounds left to achieve my personal goal. I continue to love and enjoy food; these promises have won me victory, not made me miserable. And I've realized that the Promise Diet is an approach to permanent weight loss that can benefit the country's 60 million obese adults as well as the additional 240 million obese adults around the world.