I have an alternative to your present diet method. There is a cayenne pepper capsule. It may save you from a hole in your stomach. I actually looked up cayenne pepper diet and found that “Cayenne pepper breaks up this mucous and acts as a cleanser for the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems”.

My 2 year old uses hot sauce on her food. We start them real young. We don’t like the brand Tabasco. We prefer Crystal or Louisiana Hot Sauce because they are not as vinegerary.

I hope it gives you awesome results, but if not I’ll step out on a limb and share some ideas that worked for us and might help you a little or compliment what you are doing now…

I lost 50 lbs that I had managed to gain over two pregnancies and being inactive due to working a job that required tons of overtime and sitting and also through supporting my husband through his traumatic accident, doing something akin to what they call - intuitive eating…. I had tried so-called diets before that and they never worked - the mental stress of food selection, calorie counting etc I think was too much when trying to diet, so I’d end up just thinking about food ALL the time so I’d end up eating more somehow (I guess you could say that traditional dieting kind of backfired on me)

Some fundamentals:

1) Don’t eat something just to eat - if there isn’t anything on the menu you really want, try to order the item that will just satisfy your hunger enough

2) If you must have a donut (or two) for breakfast, don’t eat the eggs and toast and juice just to satisfy eating something healthy or because you are supposed to - but don’t make donuts the daily thing

3)Eat three meals a day but take half of what you want and try to eat half of that (or at least leave something - a bite or two)Especially if it’s like a cheeseburger plate or something.

4) don’t eat a snack before you go to sleep - this is the kicker for gaining weight - believe it or not, if your stomach is growling when you go to sleep, either
a) like me, it wouldn’t growl near as much the next morning (I found when I ate before bed my stomach growled MORE in the morning than versus not) or b) you’ll still be hungry, but you’ll eat a better breakfast to try and satisfy yourself so you won’t be so inclined to eat an insane lunch

5) Breakfast and Lunch need to be your big(ger) meals!! Try to cut dinner down to a meat a green a starch - see if you can eliminate rolls, and salads can be a terrible culprit!!! A salad with 3 tablespoons of dressing can be around 300-400 calories, when you could have had a regular serving of corn or even mashed potatoes for about 200!!!

6) Try to order so you can feed your kids off of you and your wife’s plates when eating out - when we go to Outback steakhouse here, My husband shares a steak and splits his potato with our son and I do the same with our daughter, then we order a serving of broccoli on the side (which is usually HUGE) and split it all the way around. And we let the kids snack out of our salads when they arrive too (gizmo steals my carrots and firstborn will grab pieces of lettuce and cucumbers LOL) Then we can even get dessert, but again, split it 4 ways!! Trust me by the time we eat the salads and bread with it etc it’s MORE than plenty of food. Yeah, sometimes my kids gripe but they get over it.

7) try to stop eating when you fill juuusssst satisfied, and don’t confuse it with stuffed LOL

This type of dieting won’t result in fast, dramatic - lose 20lbs in one week - results. But I will say it took me about 2 years to lose the 50 lbs (about 2lbs a month) and I never really dieted, never felt starving etc and the weight has never returned. (of course it took me about 8 years to gain it LOL)

Sorry for the book - I hope some of these ideas might help, they worked for us where diets have failed. It’s not easy to loose weight and I wish you good luck!!! we’ll be cheering for you )

He might like a tobasco diet, but hot foods fiend that he is, I wonder if it would change his eating…

Good luck with the diet.

Are you my husband because he’s 6′3″ and weighs in the high 200’s after being 225 for our wedding. However, he’s not trying to lose weight. He decided start rugby. In his late 30’s.

And since he grew up in New Orleans, I think he’s immune to the powers of Tabasco. Mothers put it in the baby bottles to make the formula taste better.

If it makes you feel better, my eyes look very sunken.