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The bars are great!  When I do bar days, I alternate high protein quest cookie (love them!) for lunch and then a bar one protein bar for dinner.  Good luck today, you got this!

I just weighed in, and I’ve lost 18 lbs in 4 weeks.  I definitely could’ve done better after the first week, but I will take whatever I can get.  I promised myself tha…[Read more]

Thank you Maria!  My plan today is to have 2 Quest bars.   How are you doing with 5BD so far??

Welcome Megan!  Good luck tomorrow!  You can absolutely do this.  The first few days are hard but it does get easier.   Water, coffee and moderate amount of diet soda helped me a lot (and still does).   Good luck!  You can do it. 

Right.  And like quitting smoking, once you make that commitment, follow through on it.  Begin practicing perfect bites on Monday.  You will be hungry–and crabby–but look forward to it.  Challenge your body to make you so “hangry” that you break down and eat extra, and then NO WAY are you going to let your body win!!

Haha love it – great way of thinking!  I’m using this thread as my accountability post.  I feel like I am setting my self up for failure by starting on the weekend so i am easing into it.  This morning I was 142.5 (2 days ago I was 144).  Today I had about 40 bites + creamer in my coffee + wine.  Tomorrow might be roughly the same and then on Mond…[Read more]

My thought: look forward to being crabby.  The hungrier you are, the crabbier you are, the more fat you are losing.  LOVE IT!!

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Thank you so much, Poppycat!  I very much appreciate the encouragement! I’m having to do a bar week starting today since the last couple of days were not great.   But it’s exactly like you said, you just have to keep doing this and it does work.  So here’s to a great protein bar fuelled week! :woowoo:</p>

Hi Maria , congratulations on starting your five bite journey here on slimming station

I have just read all your posts and you are doing this approach so well. Hope you are having a great week , wishing you all the best with your five bite journey . It works really Fast as you know if we stick with it ! Will check in and encourage you along the…[Read more]

I have been doing 5 bite for 3-4 months on my own down 18 lbs so far and I know it works.  I managed to make it through the Christmas season with a weight loss which was a first for me.  I do great on bars but when I try to eat other food I break my hungerstat and the weight climbs again so my net loss for the month will only be 3 or 4 lbs.  I si…[Read more]

Oh … I love that.  You are my hero!  Keep up the GREAT work!!

Thanks, Dr Lewis!  I thought I would give another quick update.  I decided to change my approach to fit the typical 5-bite method.  I stopped using coffee creamer completely (black coffee only), and I’m only allowing myself two diet sodas max per day.  I also stopped restricting myself to the same type of food for lunch (1/2 sandwich) and same typ…[Read more]

I love your attitude, Maria.  Absolutely brilliant.  I can’t wait to see how this week goes for you!!

I just wanted to update this thread so that anyone else who shows up knows I am here.   Things are going well so far.  As I stated in this week’s chat, it really, really does help me to think of obesity as a long-term illness.   I am now motivated to carry this through like never before because I’m afraid.  At 215 lbs, my appetite was not impro…[Read more]

Yes you can!  And yes you will be able to do all of those things again!  The future is so bright and exciting!!

Your Burger King experience was a good challenge, and you tackled it beautifully!  You’ve totally got this!!  You can avoid Burger King or not.  It really doesn’t matter, because you’ve got control–whether you realize it yet or not!

Thanks, Dr. Lewis.  Today was not easy.  My daughter wanted Burger King.  I normally take at least a few of her fries even when I plan on eating something else.  However, I not only held back on the fries, but I also had to throw away half of her Junior Cheeseburger and half of her fries.  I did it and stayed on course, but it was tough.

I have…[Read more]

The first part is exactly right.  Control your hunger by eating only 5 bites for a meal.  You will establish a rhythm of only getting hungry before you meals and filling up on just your five bites.  You can ignore all of the rest of the food around, and you will be able to do it comfortably.

Yes!  Let’s do the chat on Mondays.  I always init…[Read more]

Thank you so much, Dr. Lewis.  My third day (yesterday) was as expected…..Extremely difficult right before my last meal time, but overall, better than the second day.   Unfortunately, my appetite right before my dinner meal (7pm) was extremely intense, bordering on psychotic hunger.  I tried to control my bite size as best I could.  Instead of e…[Read more]