Hi Ami:

I'm not sure if you are following SPI or SPII... but according to Dr. S., if your metabolism is damaged, it is possible that you will gain some weight as you heal, especially if you have burned out adrenal glands. Once your metabolism is healed, you will burn the fat. So "yes", you might gain weight from eating all legal foods.

One thing she mentions that you can do is to lower your saturated fat intake to slow down the weight gain as your metabolism heals. But you must get plenty of fat from monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

I'm still trying to reconcile this "gaining weight" issue. I tried following the menu plan in the back of SPII, but I couldn't eat all the food. I was so full, I was waking up each morning with a food hangover. I also gained weight. I don't know where the fine line is between gaining weight from overreating and gaining weight from healing. Anyway, I decided to curb the amount of food I eat so that I'm comfortably full instead of stuffed.

Sorry.... I think I rambled...

Wanda