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Day 4
Happy thanksgiving 🍁🦃 Dr Lewis and everyone here ! Truly grateful for Dr Lewis and his magical approach to living our lives healthy and losing the excess weight

weighed in this morning 128.8 …. 4.5 pounds down so far in three days

Eating  regular food , small bites , drinking lots of coffee and water 💦! Working , trying to not stress…[Read more]

Day 2 perfect day yesterday just water and coffee and bar at dinner time  was not hungry At lunchtime so didn’t eat as was stressed from work

soldiering on today for day 2 , last full day of work before thanksgiving and half day Wednesday . I am having a mammogram after work Wednesday and then I am finite !
Feeling very strong and positive and…[Read more]

Right.  And the scale is moving down.  Just imagine … if you put together 2 months of staying this consistent with your weight loss (do you even remember what you ate, or didn’t eat, during the months of August and September?) you’ll be skinny!!!  Can you just imagine it?  You can do this!!!

Yesterday I ate a nutrition bar for lunch, and dinner.  The day before I had a nutrition bar for lunch, and rice and broccoli for dinner (more than 5 bites), and then failed to weigh in the next day.  I really need to stick to those bars, because right now even just a few bites of “healthy food” will lead me to overeating.

My weight c…[Read more]

Brilliant, Rachel!  I love the fact that momentum is on your side.  Go with it.  If you can, the tough days will be over and through soon enough, and your life will have completely transformed.  Keep reading those books.  Keep doing what is working for you!!

Doing well still.  However, I need to start posting here daily for accountability.  Yesterday I ate a nutrition bar for lunch, and ate 5 bites of rice and broccoli for dinner.

I am reading literature about compulsive overeating, including stories of people who have overcome it. I started a routine of reading this material in the morning, and m…[Read more]

I weighed in today, and I gained 2lbs back last week.  Not too surprised since I had more bad days than good.  But I feel like the last 2 days have gone really well, and I am gaining momentum and confidence.  I had perfect days on Sunday, Monday, and doing well today (Tuesday).

Weigh yourself (I’m sure you already did).  It’s always helpful to know exactly where you stand.  If you weigh X at this very second, then 4 seconds from now you will weigh X – 0.06 gm, etc.  It is exciting to realize that you will never weigh what you weigh right this very moment if you don’t eat again.  When you do eat, though, keep the eat…[Read more]

Late Saturday night, I caved and ate extra bites.  I didn’t go totally off the rails, but I certainly didn’t abstain from those extra bites.  Sunday was much better and stuck to the plan 100%.

Trying to decide if weighing in tomorrow will be helpful or hurtful.  I feel like I am finally starting to make some progress towards on plan eating, an…[Read more]

I love that.  I love that you can feel that it’s already getting easier.  And remember: the ultimate goal is to make this journey manageable.  You have to find a way to make it comfortable enough that you can live this way for a relatively short, albeit steady, period of time.  Keep up the great work!!

So proud of you Rachel for doing this  and all the hard effort and mind over body which is so challenging at times.  i hope today has gone really well and that you are now relaxing in for the night.  I defintely go the other route , in that i dont stop so i dont have to think about food.  I make a list of everything i want to accomplish that day…[Read more]

Thanks again Gayle!  I started reading through some materials on a local Overeaters Anonymous website.  Not sure I will join the group, but I am loving all the free information there.  I saw this quote there, and I am using this as my mantra today:

Put down the fork, and pick up your life.

Today is going pretty well.  I had my lunch bar, and kee…[Read more]

I am so glad that it resonated with you Rachel! I too, despite my normal weight range, judge myself so harshly when I lose control with food. Honestly – I can’t believe the guilt and shame I have around food. F(*^ that! I’m going to work on that. I think it is super empowering to know that it’s NOT US! Also – NONE OF US ARE IMMUNE TO ADDICTION. We…[Read more]

Another day of 5 bite eating in the books!

The withdrawals hit again last night.  Ug. It was really rough, but I made it through without binge eating.  I think the culprit was eating some regular food as my dinner, rather than the bars.

Dr. L – I channeled you all, and was literally screaming at myself last night to not eat more f…[Read more]

Good for you Rachel!! Hang in. You can do this!!

I’m so sorry.  I will post it.  I’ve been busy with work and family, but I’ll get it in tonight before I go to bed.

You can do it, Rachel!  Just imagine that me and everyone else here are there with you.  We are all there when you eat, screaming, “Don’t you dare eat that sixth bite.”  Throw everything past 5 bites away quickly!  Get it out of your sight, and get on with your day.  You’ve got this!!