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I also have this same battle with regular food. Exactly the way you worded it. The battle between wanting to do just 5 bites and wanting more food.

Heres the way I look at it, I will NEVER regret just having 5. I will ALWAYS regret having more than 5. For both physical (as you now know!) and emotional reasons. The trick is to look at it this way…[Read more]

Hey everyone! I am still here!

Day 10: I switched to just regular foods today and did quite well with it. I wasn’t hungry, even though I wanted to eat more food than my 5 bites, I didn’t. But I really struggled with my emotions over WANTING to eat more even though I wasn’t hungry. Internal battle, if you will, between those two parts of me.…[Read more]

Right.  Being back at this weight–your lowest ever–every pound you lose in the next 11 days is just icing on the cake.  Really good icing.  SO, give everything you’ve got.  Eat nothing but 5 bites twice a day.  The second you start to crave a sixth bite ask yourself, would you rather have that sixth bite here or at the wedding?  Think of how m…[Read more]

Thank you Susan!

I am 20 pounds from my goal weight and 11  days to my goal date. I feel like I am careening into it, which I am not happy with. I was really hoping to “be there” by now! I had some missteps and this is the result.

I am NOT going to get on the pity pot!! My chin is up! 

The name of the game now is to lose as much as possible in the next 11 da…[Read more]

I love doing this and am so glad that others are benefiting from it!

Today’s quote is My mantra from here to the finish line:

”I want you to focus, focus, focus, and get this thing done!” – Dr. Lewis

Glad you’re back on track! 

I love that line of thinking, and am going to remember to focus on perfecting the next meal.

Focus has been an issue lately. Thinking too far ahead and feeling a bit overwhelmed at times.  This will definitely help!! 

Hi Rebekah!!

Great to see you, and glad you’re doing well. 

Back on track today. Had my coffee, a snickers for lunch and a Reese’s fast break for dinner. I had three small cans of Diet Coke which helped me avoid food. Today was tough but I managed to stay in control and watched some of Dr. Lewis’s videos. Trying to focus on the day to day.

Right.  The only meal that matters is the next one.  Focus on perfecting your next meal.  That is ALL you need to worry about at this time.  “Hmmm.  How am I going to eat my next meal in five perfect bites.”  That’s the game.  That’s everything.  

Once again:  If at first you don’t succeed (or at second, third, forth, etc.), TRY, TRY AGAIN!!!  

Okay, so I am going through the forums and found these little golden nuggets just waiting to be bumped back to the top of the list!!

**BUMPING post because this is good info.**

I think I just feel over confident and then I think eating that one meal at an event won’t do any harm. Then I make the excuse of I might as well enjoy it. Trying to stay positive and remember this feeling of regret. Thanks for the support!

How are you doing Ari?

“It feels good to eat, but it feels even better to do this diet perfectly and to run on small amounts of food and to feel even a little bit hungry. It jacks your endorphins to know that you’re doing it perfectly.”- Dr. Lewis

Slolady: Thank you so much! I am glad that my posts helped you stick to it! It is not easy at first but it gets easier! How is it going now? All you need to do is have one perfect 5 bite meal, and then one more, and another… You can do this!!

The rest of day 8: Okay, I decided to stick to bars today since I didn’t have a game…[Read more]

BK, don’t be too hard on yourself! What ended up making you eat more? Was it weighing in and seeing that number 158? Was it that your hungerstat not being fully set and you were hungry? Or something else? All we can do is learn from what happened and move forward with a plan on how to hopefully not do it that way again. You can do this!

I feel so embarrassed and like such a failure that I can’t make it one solid week on just bars. I am seriously my own worst enemy. I get down to 158 and never any lower because I start eating more. If I were to do the diet perfectly could I really lose about 30 pounds in a month? Starting over… again