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Phew, thanksgiving was a doozy, excited to be back on. Hooray for establishing a new habit! Also happy to know I can lose it faster than I gained it over the holiday. Good luck y’all!

It’ll be okay because you can lose it faster than you can gain it, it is just a lot of water retention from the extra food, extra salt, etc. Get back on and ride it out, you can do it!

Ok, here is my weight: 211.2 lbs. 9 lbs up in a week!!

Maybe Thanksgiving just isn’t worth going off the diet for!

I think I’m going to weigh in on Sundays from now on.

Perhaps I can beat my best weekly loss this week!

Oh dear. I was awful today! That first 5 bite meal IS hard, and I failed.

This whole week was a flop, starting last Sunday. But now Thanksgiving is OVER.

All the Thanksgiving food is gone, and there are no more big or unusual happenings planned for next week.

I have a plan and I am going to stick with it!

First, I think I know why I’m…[Read more]

Great.  Start as quickly as you can.  That first perfect 5-bite meal sets all of the wheels in motion, and it’s downhill from there.  But executing that first perfect meal is the hard part.  Skip breakfast and be perfect for lunch.  Then you are perfectly back on track.  You WILL feel so relieved.  You got this!!!

Well, I ate a Snickers for lunch, but I had extra bites after supper. I need to get re-motivated!

I did not drink any coffee today because I have had laryngitis all week, and supposedly caffeine is bad for your voice. I am going to sing with our church choir at a funeral tomorrow, and I was desperate to get my voice back. It’s back now,…[Read more]

Thanks Dr Lewis!

We had a really good Thanksgiving.

It was truly a learning experience for me! I made a ‘normal’ plate, but remember thinking “Wow, each of these ‘portions’ would make an entire meal for me normally!” I ate some of everything, and only finished my turkey and pie. I didn’t need to though. Old habits!!

One thing I…[Read more]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

Yes, today is a free day.  But be smart … be reasonable.  You won’t have fond memories of this Thanksgiving if you way overeat.   I give the same recommendation every year:  Taste everything, finish nothing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

– From the Lewis family to yours  

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Yesterday was perfect, just a Snickers for lunch and another Snickers for supper.

I didn’t check in because I took Nyquil for my cold, and then I got too sleepy.

I’m excited for my free day today!

I hope you all stay safe and have a wonderful day!!!

Today was perfect!

I don’t know why I’ve been having such trouble the past few days! Today was easy, thankfully.

For lunch, I had 5 bites of a ham sandwich and threw the rest away.

For supper, I had a Snickers bar. I cut it into 5 bites so I could visualize how much I am eating.

I have had almost no voice for 3 days, and a…[Read more]

Yes, I will. Especially since I only lost 2 lbs this week!

Today is going to be PERFECT!

Right.  So now that the day is over and all is said and done, were the extra  bites worth it at all?  Absolutely not!!  Remember this experience the next time you are tempted by food that’s just sitting there.

Ok, I have to check in. I was really awful yesterday: I did good, 5 bites at lunch and 5 bites at supper, then after supper I started to pick at the food on my plate. Then they served cake, and I ate a peice. And today, I had resolved to not eat, to make up for the cake. But I started picking at food, and just tasted and took a LOT of random,…[Read more]

Day 80

Back on it, and it has been fairly easy actually. Mindfulness of what you’re doing when you’re doing it. I know exactly what to do but sometimes I’m not “there” for when it’s time to decide to do the right thing, like throw that 6th bite away, or not take extra bites when there is an opportunity. Every time I have messed up, I knew I was…[Read more]

Great job! Your posts are always encouraging. I need to get excited too. Time for me to re-read Dr Lewis’s book!

I haven’t tried eating ‘normally’ this time on the diet yet, so it will be interesting to see how I feel on Thanksgiving!

I do remember once during the first time I ever tried doing the 5 bite diet, I went off plan and ate a…[Read more]