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Hi Caitlinn-

I also love the focus and perspective I get from the CHAT with Dr. Lewis. I will be on next week. I am so glad I came back every time to get lower. Love how I look and feel at 115 but Dr. L wants me to see what 113 feels like.

My day yesterday was great and today is good so far. I start the day early and I find that the only thing…[Read more]

I agree Chloe! Sometimes I lose focus — not a lot. It reminds me of why I like to eat less. I love to indulge too and even eat MORE than 5 B in maintenance but just NOT to the point of excess. I do not have a BINGE and FAST or ED history but have an all or nothing mentality sometimes. Again – the extremes are less and less. The slipping happens…[Read more]

Thanks Gayle. Yes knowing what to expect helps so much to alleviate the fear around eating this way that I experienced the first time through.

10/23/18

Day 2

I weighed in at 167 this morning. It is going down quick and I already feel so much better than I expected right away. I noticed it most with my ease of movement and my ability to climb up…[Read more]

I experienced terrible digestive issues when I attempted to get back to a “normal” eating pattern too. I actually found that I could eat 150 bites over the course of the day. I was very sick for a little while as my body readjusted. I think the feeling in the body after bingeing is so much worse than anything I have felt on 5 bites. Anyways just…[Read more]

Yes! I struggled a lot with becoming complacent my first time around. When I hit the 130’s I was satisfied because I hadn’t seen that number since I was 14 so I never reached my ultimate goal. Today I’m doing well! I joined the video chat last night and found it to be very motivating and helped really put everything in to perspective. I had my…[Read more]

How are you doing today Caitlinn? You have so little to lose yet some days it can seem so far away. Sometimes, I would become complacent when close and I wasted a lot of time.  All the wasted time caused frustration.I wish that I JUST DID IT a while ago. It’s so much fun to get there, be there and stay there. Sometimes, I used to feel guilty t…[Read more]

Hi Chloe –

I think the second time around will be so much easier! You know what to expect and you have the tools and the skills. You have already proven that you can be successful. It’s so great to have both the knowledge and the experience.

Let’s stay connected! The extra weight is going to pour off you.

G

Hi Everyone-

I can’t lie! It started to mess with my head when my best friend and boyfriend said I was too skinny. Especially my boyfriend. He actually likes a “skinny” body and my skinny body but when I got to 115 and 114 ish, he said I should stop losing weight. Also, I noticed way more loose skin that wasn’t there at the higher weight. Then,…[Read more]

Indeed so!  I think, amazingly, you will find it even easier this time around!  

Hey Gayle! hope you’re able to push through that last plateau. I noticed for myself that I started to self sabotage when I was on the threshold of dropping into the 140s. I had never been there and a part of me just didn’t want to know what it was like to be on the other side of that 150 number. I don’t know what that is really but for myself, I…[Read more]

10/22/18 Mon

Day 1

lunch: cornbread and chili 5 bites

dinner: snickers bar

This frame of mind is so comfortably familiar, it’s nice to feel so certain about what I am doing already. No hunger pangs, energy levels good. I am expecting difficulties over the next two days with energy levels as my body switches over but I suspect that my body…[Read more]

Great, Gayle.  Keep pushing forward.  You are ALMOST THERE!  Wait no more!!  Do it now, doe it fast, and get it done!  You don’t want to be in these same shoes once the fancy Holiday parties hit.  You want to be your thinnest ever at that time.  And if you don’t do it now, it won’t get done.

Right on!  Like you Chloe, I feel the same way.  I just wish everyone recognized how other strategies simply are ineffective and waste their time.  

Right.  If at first you don’t succeed (and VERY few people do), try, try again!  Eventually you WILL get there, and life becomes truly extraordinary.

I’m so glad! We are here to ENcourage each other and remind each other that as long as we stay in the game WE ARE WINNING!

Thanks Gayle!

Your comment got me out my disappointed slump and excited to commit and get skinny.

Thanks Gayle! Yeah we are so lucky to have a place to get support. Everywhere else I look that is okay with rapid fat loss is in the ED community which is super unfortunate. I don’t want to pathologize the practice of eating less.

It’s funny, once you lose weight with 5 bite, every other approaching seems unnecessary and time consuming.

Hi Caitlinn-

First of all – give yourself credit for your initial success! Now, you have proven to yourself you CAN do it and DID do it! NOW, you will do it again today.  It really is about COMMITTING yourself 100%. I spent 2 years of up and down with 5 Bite until I finally committed 2 years ago on the slimming station with dr. lewis. Then I…[Read more]

Hi Everyone!

Well- Last Tuesday I got down to my all time low of 114.8. I felt like I was too skinny but keeping up with goal of getting to 113 to see how it felt.  THEN – I caved. My son came home Thursday and I started my pre holiday weekend indulgence. I went a bit crazy for 3 days. I completely lost focus. So unusual for me to allow that for…[Read more]

Hi Chloe-

Welcome back! I completely get it!! I STILL need accountability after 2 years in maintenance.  We need to have those slips in order to figure out what we need. Most of the time, I am in a healthy eating and lifestyle place but sometimes BOOM those old habits creep in. I love having Slimming Station and Dr. Lewis as my safety net. It’s…[Read more]