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Day 40

08/23/18

Breakfast: walnut apple strudel

Lunch: subway sandwhich 4 bites of kid sized, 1 bite of cookie

I also got into chewing a lot of gum today and I think that’s a little weird because I had ALOT of it. I think it is probably mostly harmless but can lead to fixation on food and flavor. It’s an unhelpful distraction I think. So no…[Read more]

It really is worth it yes, I would love to be able to do at least 2 perfect weeks I think it would make everything so much easier, and I think it would get me to my goal, and then I can finally get to practice maintenance again 

Yes!

As far as guided meditations, you can use an app called “Insight timer” and looke for the guided meditations by Shinzen Young. Also if you have an iphone I think he has a direct app called Brightmind. Basically any meditation will help because it redirects one’s focus towards some meditation object.

Specifically with food and achieving your…[Read more]

@spiderchlome – do have any favorite guided meditations that have been helpful in this journey?  I have a few go-to meditations that I do regularly.  But I would like something more specific to weight loss, or achieving goals.

Lunch – Snickers bar
Dinner – Rice and Avocado sushi roll (5 bites)

Great.

The next time you try and five bite a regular meal, remind yourself how AMAZING you are going to feel when you wake up the next morning.  It feels AWESOME!!  

I agree.  Media changes the perception of what normal weight is by focusing on an altered perspective.

Brilliant!!  I love that, Pia!  What you did is EVERYTHING!  That’s it.  You’ll be at your goal in no time.  Even though you are hungry now, just focus on how amazing you are going to feel when you wake up tomorrow.  It makes dealing with the hunger well worth it!

Great job!  

Yay, well done 👍

Yay! I’m down 2.5lbs today 

Hey Gayle, are you still around or did you already reach your goal?

Hey Matt, well done for coming back, if you’re finding social eating difficult maybe cut down on social events for a few weeks until it gets easier, it’s for your own wellbeing, it would be so much easier if we could go to a rehab center for food addicts and be served just 5 bites for lunch and 5 bites for dinner, but this is real life and we hav…[Read more]

08/22/18

Day 39

Breakfast: strudel

Lunch: Vegan Chicken and ravioli

One of my housemates started getting really curious about what I have been doing to lose weight and asked a lot of questions. It was nice to have answers for her.

I think that’s another issue we need to deal with. The fact that others have their own issues with weight and will unintentionally sabotage our weight loss. We need to do this for US not for anyone else otherwise we will fail. Sure I want others to notice how skinny I am and how good I look but ultimately it’s for me and me alone.

I was per…[Read more]

I hadn’t seen my mother in 5 weeks. She said “you are not going to fall down are you?” I said, “What do you mean?” She was implying that if I get too skinny I will be too weak to stand?? I replied “Actually, I’m able to do more now that I’m more mobile and it’s the exact opposite.” There is always going to be someone who is negative, but I know…[Read more]

Good luck, you just gotta commit to it, drop all your doubts and just go for it!

I’ve been thinking about this so much lately. Ballooned up to 204lbs and it definitely feels that way!

I’m really struggling with the social aspect of eating right now. The irony is that I’m always talking about 5-bites, and they never actually see me “perform” it, if that makes sense.

I need to get back to journaling like before, and even going…[Read more]

‘Now I keep eating even after I’m full. I think about food and what going to eat all day now.’ I’m like that too, but we are changing the habits and gaining control, sometimes we may fail but then we get up and keep going because we don’t want the extra weight we want to be skinny and we want to gain control of the food not the other way around le…[Read more]

Wow! Such amazing advice. Thank you Dr Lewis  for reminding me to just keep it simple. I think the main reason I failed last time was I was so worried about gaining all the weight back so just kind of gave up.

Lynda your post really opened my eyes. You really know your stuff. You’re so right about the food industry wanting to make money and re…[Read more]