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HI Shannon I am a new member,very excited about Dr. Lewis’s program, knowing this time that I will be successful. Do you have any advice for a newcomer?

Great to hear your experiences. This is wonderful! Keep up the great work!

I’m finding that I am physically hungry just a couple times a day. I’ll feel a true hunger growl, sometimes earlier than when I want to eat one of my meals, and it easily subsides. I eat at 1pm and 6pm. Sometimes later but never before those times and it seems to work for me. My understanding is that every time my stomach rumbles in actual hunger…[Read more]

Yes. If all you eat are 2 Snickers a day, and take a multivitamin, you will do great. You need nothing more. The ‘stress’ of losing weight can cause hair loss, but we’ll see if that affects you. It only affects a very small portion of people who do this (in my experience < 1%).

As you tend to lose weight and become healthier, you’re tastes…[Read more]

That sounds great. I’ve been reading the post from others in the past. I’ve learned that I need to make my bites smaller. I want to lose this as quick as possible, so I’m willing to do whatever I need to get fit and healthy. I have a question about the snicker bar. On the forum so are just eating to bars aday for the five bites. Is this okay. I’m…[Read more]

This is a great story, Shannon. Please tell me (and everyone here), having eaten just 10 bites of food each day for the last 5 days, exactly how hungry are you? Please be honest. How often do you think about food? When you focus on your hunger, how bad is it really? How many times per day are you ‘bothered’ by your stomach growling? And…[Read more]

Thanks. Wow I cant wait to hear about the holiday baking! I went out this weekend to get all my ingredients and will also be baking. My internet connection can be a little iffy but I will try making it to the chat.

Welcome Davielee!

Delighted to have you as part of the group. At your weight you could (should) lose 18-20 pounds the first week. It will taper after that, but how much depends on how strict you are with your eating and how determined you are to finish the program. The sooner you are finished, the sooner your new, spectacular life begins. So…[Read more]

WOW!! That is great!! Just remember how great you feel/felt when you realized how much weight you lost in just those 4 days….It’s that high that will get you through until you are at your goal weight…The holidays will be hard and believe me everyone and everything will tempt you, but you have made it past the first few days and proven to…[Read more]

With every post, Shannon, you make me more excited. I KNOW your hungerstat is resetting, which will make the whole process amazingly easy. You will be a tremendous inspiration for everyone here.

Post edited by: shanni82, at: 2008/12/13 20:23

I’ll admit it did get kinda difficult to not go back to the fridge last night (or this morning) to eat the rest of the Japanese takeout. But it was completely WORTH IT! This morning I am down 13 pounds! from 306 to 293 and this is my official 4th consecutive day. I think this week will be a big weight loss because I was previously bingeing. But I…[Read more]

Well I went ahead and tried eating my 5 bites surrounded with food. I did it! A big success because I was pretty bummed about some plans falling through at the last minute tonight. I REALLY wanted to eat more because I was so disappointed. So I told myself no, I would stick to the cereal bar. Then I decided that I may as well try Dr. Al’s…[Read more]

I think CLA is a bunch of hocus pocus. Just a waste of money. That is my opinion. You do not need to worry about ‘burning muscle’. It doesn’t happen, until ALL of your fat stores are depleted, and by that point you will be about 80 pounds.

Al

Beautiful!! You are doing great!

I actually recommend, rather than trying to estimate a 5-Bite meal, just surround yourself with food and from it take only 5 bites. It makes you feel amazing.

It’s true. In the past when I lost a lot of weight, I enjoyed my food so much more. I do have a work potluck coming up next week. I really don’t enjoy these. I don’t like to do a lot of cooking when I’m on 5BD so I decided that my contribution will be easy and mini. The Hungry Girl website had an idea to cut up snickers bars into 10ths and place 1…[Read more]

Hi Shanni82 – that’s great! Just hang in there this time. Just get past the first few bumpy days and you’ll be just fine! I realized how much food I ate that I didn’t even really like or even really taste. Such a waste — like the money I’ve wasted on things, too, over the years! I found I really appreciate the taste of food so much more now.…[Read more]

Hi Violette, I think you have a good strategy. I haven’t wanted to think much about the holidays… but the key really is just stopping for a moment to think about it. I will plan ahead each day and consider my favorite items among whatever is offerered and stick to my 5 bites. Just taking a moment to breathe and realize that I can get my…[Read more]

Just imagine where you are going, how healthy you will be, and how spectacular you will feel. Then let that drive you to the finish line.

You mention that you ate like a pig over the last few days. Which of the extra bites of whatever you ate were so spectacular that you can still taste them? None. I didn’t think so. Remember this as you sit…[Read more]

What I have noticed with doing more than 30 minutes of exercise (i.e. aerobics), causes my appetite to increase. That is when the definition of a bite starts to get skewed. So I would say light exercising no more than 30 minutes has worked for me. Also, toning is good but I tend to bulk out very quickly so I need to not go over board with that either.