This tip is actually on the tape. It does have one bad effect, if you don't exercise conscious control in the situation, of generating potential insomnia if your brain accepts "the last food you take in is two to three hours before going to sleep" without any real change in one's eating patterns.
The advice I received was, "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a worker, and dinner like a pauper." It generally works. The three-meals thing, though, is B.S. I have breakfast around 6:30, a snack at 11:15, lunch at 1:00, a snack at 3:15, dinner at 7:00 and perhaps a bedtime snack of 60 calories or less. The reason most diets fail is hunger. Therefore, fuzzy logic dictates that we must never allow ourselves to be hungry. I keep emergency food in my briefcase (a bag of microwave popcorn, lite), and in my car (a pack of graham crackers), so that I'm never more than three minutes away from a shot of starch.
Although "Ideal Weight" is a "complete" system, there may be underlying and/or deeply rooted issues that must be worked through first. I noticed that "Anxiety Free" is on sale today for $10. In all honesty, what could be more anxiety producing than changing one's body? The past failures, the future temptations, the changes in lifestyle and eating... even if you look forward to some of these events, they are still changes, and drastic changes at that. These changes have the potential to produce what is sometimes called "cyberpsychosis," which is what happens when one's physical form and mental self-image are deeply out-of-phase with each other. The inner mind may attempt to heal this rift by keeping the body at a less-than-ideal weight. I suggest this paraliminal as an example, simply because it's on sale. You can judge better than me which paraliminals would be best in supporting your Ideal Weight.
