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Sounds like you are in control Gayle! My test will be a filipino party with all the usual yummy food. That’s my test. I’m testing myself out with providing morning tea for my workers and not touching it. Next will be the BBQ at lunch and sticking to the 5 bites.

I couldn’t help myself and weighed in again. One day I felt like I was shrinking but no weight loss. The next day felt normal, not expecting anything and I lose 2 pounds!!

I know my weight drops  down in chunks, so I’m not too concerned. Just staying with the 5 bites. I have kept hydrated all the time, so go figure?

Hey Alison, isn’t great to…[Read more]

Thanks Lynda,

That’s encouraging, hopefully I will notice the same.

I forgot to mention the worst – I have gallstones and have severe intermiitent attacks, sometimes once a week for months sometime once every other month. Seeking relief from these without surgery as well.

Compliments threw me off last time a did a weight watchers diet, got sick of counting points and became complacent. I’m not done until I hit 18.5 BMI. 

More research has been done by  Professor Andrew Brown from the University of NSW. Calorie counting has to be the biggest diet myth out there in my opinion.

https://coach.nine.com.au/2015/02/16/16/38/can-you-breathe-yourself-skinny-how-you-lose-fat-through-exhaling

Hi Allan,

I had a dodgy week with mild indigestion but it seems to have passed. It could have been through large coffee consumption so I’m alternating tea and the odd diet soda here. I’m pretty sure I would have a fatty liver being overweight and consuming too much alcohol, but I’m feeling better than ever before. And simply not being over full…[Read more]

Forget the ANGER and connect with the LOVE by COMMITTING to YOURSELF!! You so deserve the very best of everything. Once in a while we will slip but you will get there!!

Just imagine how amazing you will look good at GOAL! Even though I like how I look at some of the higher weights, NOTHING looks as good as when I get to the lower and lower mid range. It’s so nice when that tummy gets flat again. YES – as a 50 yr old woman, who has had two children, my tummy gets as flat as a board at my lower range — so I’m…[Read more]

We continue to learn Chloe! So so glad you didn’t have the side effects of first few days. For me, if I overindulge — more when I’m in the maintenance phase and not weight loss phase — I find that Day 2 or 3 of reset can be hungrier days BUT manageable.

Keep hydrated and busy!!

You are killing it!!

Hi Everyone!

I love reading all your posts!!!

Sorry to have been out of communication. I was on a family vacation from Friday to Tuesday night. The vacation was really about spending time with my aging parents so it was special but some work. I completely stayed on my vacation plan. I weighed everyday and exercised everyday. I have not lost more…[Read more]

WOW! These are fantastic!!

“I’m on a fast and furious race to get rid of the toxic fat!”

Just try to tune people out! You will never allay people’s fears. Their disingenuous concern is really about their fear in disguise. Food and weight loss can be very confrontational. I no longer apologize for my eating or dieting. My body, my rules.

I like the short answers. It will throw it back the questioner.

Gayle,

I love your posts!  They are so inspirational.  You listed a lot of things that personally define my WHY for being here and wanting to lose my weight with this tool.

This diet is my home plate diet because of the physical and spiritual reasons, and remembering that I’m doing it for myself and seeing the benefits truly generates the pos…[Read more]

Exactly.  In fact, I strongly encourage you to start cooking again just to further cement your newfound control over food.

– “Just ’cause.”

– “Someone challenged me to stick to 5 bites, so I took ’em up on it.  I will not lose a challenge.”

– “I want to do something that no one else can do.”

Right, Alison.  Don’t let compliments impede your commitment to go all the way and achieve exceptional living.  You are not done until you are truly done.  For now, you ARE a five-biter.  Just be that person, and don’t let anyone tell you you’ve lost enough until you actually have lost it all.

Leona
Thank you for your post. I needed to read it. I got off track after a couple of years maintaining and got angry about not eating the volume I wanted. Instant gratification and instant escape with food with lots of family issues . What was worse was instant continued weight gain… your so right no one is making me do this. But I deserve to…[Read more]

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