next several months. donna, how does that sound? i m looking forward to that. i would love to lose the weight once and for all and keep it off. so i ll definitely be taking you up on that, dr. shapiro. something tells me, now that you ve given out that number, you ll get a whole lot of calls from donna, but others as well. let s talk about something you highlight in i should have given them your number. yeah, well. i would just refer them to you. let s talk about some of the foods that you say, you know what, it defies the whole logic of just simply quantity, but you re saying it is now an issue of a combination. one of the examples you have in your book, you say, you know, you can have pizza, you can have pasta, but you need to pair it with some vegetables and then the measurement of calories certainly differs. if you just have pasta with meat sauce, 700 calories there. but you reduce maybe the pile of pasta, you add some vegetables,