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Thanks for the insightful post Leona!!

How great Leona that you have identified how you can move things forward and knock this weight loss out of the park! We have all been stuck in “excuse land.” I was there up until meeting Dr. Lewis 2 years ago. My weight went up and down like a roller coaster. I took ownership and let NOTHING and No One…[Read more]

You got it, Michele!  Welcome, and GREAT work so far!  The key is to maintain that excitement and determination until you’ve fully cross the finish line.  But trust me: life is INCREDIBLE when you are there.  So let’s sprint for the finish line!!!  

The is no such thing as bad or good food, particularly when you are eating only five bites.  It’s just material–carbon–in one form or another.  Your multivitamin covers the essentials.  Nitrogen (protein) comes in almost automatically.  So your five bites are just for flavor and to curb your hunger.  They aren’t providing your body with ANYT…[Read more]

Awesome, Leona!  You are such an inspiration!  And as you’ve said: this is YOUR diet (whomever is reading this).  No one else’s.  You don’t need to defend it to anyone.  No one is forcing you to eat more.  This is yours, and yours alone, and you are doing it because YOU WANT TO.  

It’s amazing how diet soda messes with your results. I was drinking 1-2 cans a different time I did this and my weightless stalled until I thought to omit the cans. I switched to sparkling water then to regular water and things picked back up. Great job!

Way to go!! 

I’ve been loving some “unhealthy” foods and I’m not ashamed to admit it!

Breakfast coffee, lunch 1/2 snickers, dinner a grilled cheeseburger with grilled onions and mayonnaise. It was so good and so bad at the same time but I was good and stuck to my 5 bites!

31 perfect days in a row!

Together we can do this!

Just thinking this way changed my mentality.  Yes I gained 7 pounds but since I changed my mindset I’ve lost 9 lbs since this past Saturday.  I’m losing at a rate I wasn’t before.  I’m more conscious, I’m less whiny about it, I don’t wish I could finish the plate or eat more.  Because I AM doing what I wanted.

I thou…[Read more]

Welcome back Michele! It’s always easier to follow the diet when you’ve had such great success.

Wow — 8 pounds in 3 days. Way to come back!!

Wishing you continued success.

Gayle

Inspiration!

Thanks Gayle!

Lynda, I also have had some reflux but not everyday so perhaps it’s depending on the kind of food. I also only get it while pregnant so it caught me off guard. It could have been that I laid down not long after eating one of the days. It hasn’t been terrible for me, is yours bad?

I’m noticing the bites can vary between the normal 50 gm snickers bar and 70 gm of pasta. So if I’m sticking to snickers bars on the run and 5 bites with the family.

Does anyone get reflux when eating their bites? Everytime I eat, I get a bit of indigestion. It goes away after a while. But I haven’t had that since I was pregnant 8 years ago.

I love this! I’m restarting today after gaining half back which is 5 lbs so far.

How impressive! Way to go!!

It all gets better! After 3-5 days – hunger disappears as do cravings! Like Dr. L says – DRINK and ride the hunger waves.

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Yes.  You need to ride this out.  Drink water and coffee, but these feelings will go away.

It sounds to me like you are going to do VERY well on this program.  I can’t wait to watch the transformation take place!  

I like that idea!  

The most common type of heart disease–atherosclerosis–dramatically benefits form weight loss, and those people should be on the diet.  The authors are making an argument for caution in some people with cardiomyopathy who may suffer if they don’t get an adequate amount of protein (which would still be hard not to get, even with this diet), but…[Read more]