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I add spices and eating hot 🥵 I increase my metabolism.

Concentrate on what I am eating and I’ll experience food with all my senses. That’s how to genuinely enjoy myself and my food.

If I eat more than a small amount I won’t taste it anyway. So why eat more than one or two bites? There’s no reason at all. What if I could figure out how to eat one glorious, delicious, perfectly eaten bite of any foo…[Read more]

Practice the 5 bites tasting of a lot more foods. Try many different kinds of foods with different textures and tastes so I can compare the experiences.

After one max two bites of one food. Throw it away.

While practicing, figure out which foods, flavors, textures, and techniques optimize my  taste experience.

Instead of making 5 bites a dull process, I am trying to make it joyful 😀

Thanks for the positive comments.  Only lost 3 pounds this week, so…..

Back at it tomorrow.

Amen, Letileti!      It’s hard to get over the tendency to “clean your plate”, but my goodness, the standard American food portions are massive!   So let relish the opportunity to enjoy those first few bites, and the rest can go into the trash.

Right, Letileti!  I totally agree!  Eat spectacular and complex flavors, but just taste it.  Experience it.  Then toss it.  You get to repeat this fun process at every meal, the number of which is seemingly limitless given your now-longer-and-better life!  

Great!  I like that idea!

And, particularly the next few days, LOOK FORWARD to being hungry.  Make it a game–a challenge–to see just how much hunger your body can generate.  Try and become hungrier than you’ve ever been in your entire life!  Then note how the hunger comes and goes in waves, and how dramatically the amplitude of those waves fal…[Read more]

Well I’m back! Gained some weight and perspective. Trying to have a perfect week. Haven’t completed one yet. This time I’ve decided to stick with snickers bars for at least this first week. I have also put my scale in my garage so I’m not tempted to weigh everyday. I get really caught up in how much the scale is moving daily versus my weekly…[Read more]

Prayers for you Marie!! 💕

Great!  Then the challenge is set!  

I will echo everything above: my thoughts and prayers are with you, Marie!  

Thanks to both of you ladies. And both named Sharon.

Would love to get to 120 with you!! 

I WILL BE PRAYING FOR YOU MARIE AND THINKING OF YOU ON MONDAY, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ON THE WEDDING AND FITTING INTO YOUR DRESS.  NOW AFER YOUR SURGERY , YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THOSE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS WHICH WILL MAKE YOU SMILE WITH JOY DURING YOUR RECOVERY XXX