JACKIE RODRIGUEZ gained 70 pounds after her first child was born. “I was very unhappy, but I stayed like that for two years,” she says. Then, when her daughter was two, she dropped all the weight with practically no effort. “I wasn’t using any diet pills, fat burners, or shakes … nothing,” she recalls.
The transformation had nothing to do with what Rodriguez ate. Rather, it began when she started a new job that shook up her daily routine. Working in the office of a DJ company near her apartment in the Bronx in New York City, she started her shift at 5:30 p.m. Instead of sharing dinner with her husband at nine, when he got home from his job as a superintendent, she ate alone at five, before she…
