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is a large part of these answers. The mental aspect of dieting can never be overstated. Willpower, discipline, motivation—these are universally mentioned by the vast majority of dieters who say they have tried to lose weight in the past, but have not been successful. Regardless of how good a plan might be, if one doesn’t believe in it and follow it, success will not be achieved. SHRED has built-in strategies that grow confidence and keep you inspired to stick with the plan and achieve success. In fact, many are so concentrated on the food and exercise as they are going through the cycle, they don’t even realize they are also developing the mental toughness critical for success.
    Many programs penalize users if they stray from the plan or don’t give 100 percent. SHRED will never do this. SHRED is what I like to call a forgiving plan. SHRED understands that no one can eat or exercise perfectly, so it never requires or expects it. Many who have followed the plan have sent me e-mails expressing confidence that they will never return to the bad habits that put them in the difficult predicament from which they have finally emerged. They often speak about how for the first time, after many failed dieting attempts, they now have the willpower to do what they have always known is the right thing to do. SHREDDERs develop a new mental approach not just to food, beverages, and exercise, but also to the entirety of life.

 
    CHAPTER 2
    How SHRED Works
    SHRED is one of the easiest programs to deliver a high level of results. My job is to take complicated weight-loss principles and distill them down to simple strategies that are easy to implement. You will not have to overthink anything you do while SHREDDING. The first time you go through the six-week cycle, you will do so in the exact order I’ve laid out. There are many reasons why I’ve ordered the sequence the way I have. To achieve maximum success, strictly adhering to the order is advised.
    Each week is laid out for you in detail. All you need to do is follow the meals and, if necessary, make substitutions. Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 contain more than two hundred snacks and more than fifty recipes for smoothies, shakes, and soups. You can use my suggestions or find your own. The key, however, is to make sure whatever you consume falls into the guidelines as laid out in the beginning of each week and those within the daily plan.
    CYCLING
    Each cycle consists of six weeks, but many of you will need to do more than one cycle of SHRED in order to achieve your goals. This is completely expected: I have written the program so that this can be done most effectively. While the sequence of weeks is critical during the first cycle of SHRED, subsequent cycles can be customized so that they make the most sense to your schedule and particular needs. For SHRED to work best for you, it’s important during the first cycle that you keep brief notes as you go through the weeks. You should record what you find difficult about the week, what you find easy, and ultimately how much you lose during that seven-day period. This information is important, because if you decide to do a second cycle, you can then arrange the weeks strategically. Let’s say that week 3, Transformation, is the week in which you lost the most weight. Let’s also say that week 2, Challenge, is the one that you felt worked the best as far as your ability to stick to the plan and at the same time lose weight. It’s possible that week 4, Ascend, gave you the second greatest weight loss. You’ve finished the entire six-week cycle and you still have 8 pounds left before you reach your goal. This means it’s unlikely you will need to do the entire six-week cycle again, but you’ll need somewhere between two and three weeks to get off the final pounds. Now is when those notes you took can make a difference: look back at them and see which weeks worked best for you. In our example, this would be weeks 2, 3, and 4. So while