Imagine living on pure shakes for 9 months, then we'll talk about "going off" the shakes, yes?
The shakes, yes they're not very pleasant - but at the end of the day, when we feel bad we take some medicine. Medicine doesn't taste great, but we take it to feel better. The shakes aren't far off - they are a TOOL for us to use to get to where we want. We won't be having them forever, but they are a material we use to take us away from food and assess our relationship with it.
If you weren't having your shake in the morning/afternoon/evening, what would you REALISTICALLY be having when off the diet?
Maybe the problem doesn't apply too much to people who do Lite as a one-off diet (most people in my Lite class have never been obese for example, been slender all their lives). Obviously there are cases in the Lite class where people like me join, who have done a long period of abstinence, and/or have been obese before but use Lite as a tool to curb their eating habits ...
I don't know... Personally I don't find Lite hard. Some people do because they haven't gotten their thinking the right way around, and still feel 'deprived' of the food they can't have... That's all they think about. The CAN'Ts. ... I think about the CANs. I can have everything I want, those other things - yeah they'd be nice someday, but they're not essential.
... long rant... uhhh... I think I had too much aspartame... can you get high off sweetner? I wonder... :/
