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Glad to see you’re sticking with it!  You’re not missing out on anything, it’s just a little food. That’s what I tell myself anyways.

Day 25

Lunch and Dinner is 5 bites of vegan seitan pot pie that my partner made. it’s delicious and totally just enough. Energy feels good, simplicity feels good, keeping busy.

Thank you guys.  I so agree with Gayle:  If you truly love yourself, then do this for you.  You deserve it!

Lynda – I didn’t read the whole article, but it sounds like Dr. Brown supports what we are saying here, no?

OMG, Allan!  This is ABSOLUTELY the right thing for you!  GERD will absolutely resolve if you lose enough weight.  The ONLY cure for NASH or NAFLD (fatty liver) is significant weight loss, and this diet is the PERFECT prescription.  Most cases of gastritis will resolve with this diet, and IBS should improve.  Diverticulitis probably won’t impr…[Read more]

If you truly want to be skinny, then just do it.  Remember, this diet is YOURS and YOURS alone.  This is YOU.  You are a five-biter.  You don’t need to convince anyone else of what you are doing or the benefits of it.  You just need to do this for you.  In that regard, there is no point in procrastinating; you don’t achieve anything by waiti…[Read more]

Right.  And the 23rd is right around the corner–a mere 2 weeks away!  We, as intelligent beings that can weigh the pluses and minuses of any issue, can certainly “tough it out hard-core” for a mere 2 weeks, right?  If you truly want to have the best time possible on that cruise (in just 2 weeks!), then don’t eat a single thing except for a bar fo…[Read more]

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I can so relate to your all or nothing and over thinking things. I’m trying to learn to just breath and enjoy the moments in life too,thanks for your posts. Felt like I could have written this.

Well I’m back. I totally fell off the wagon. I’m 191 and had lost 10. But I’m going to just kill it. No more sugary coffee drinks, etc. I have bars ready. I am going in a cruise on 8/23 so I have time to show myself I can do this

This is the last diet I’m doing. I’ve over the obsession of healthy food. I cooked the employee BBQ today, provided morning tea and stuck to my 5 bites. Yeah!!

This sure is a no-brainer. I use to train rowing 12 times a week, had to make 59kg race weight. I struggled  like you wouldn’t believe with a low calorie/high carb diet. Now that I’m not training and just doing ordinary farm work level work, this  has been so eye opening and simply so much easier. How the hell could the medical industry, n…[Read more]

Day 24

Thanks Gayle, yes I am keeping so busy lately, figuring out stuff for grad school and taking a teacher training course for mindfulness meditation on top of working my two other jobs. I can’t believe how much more motivated I seem to be now that I am not so caught up trying to sort out all my food issues. That was a lot of brain and…[Read more]

I agree Gayle. People’s negative comments are a reflection of where their mind and issues are. There are no doctors in my circles, so I’m just going to play the authoritarian card on this. My health and my weight is not their concern.

Sounds like you are in control Gayle! My test will be a filipino party with all the usual yummy food. That’s my test. I’m testing myself out with providing morning tea for my workers and not touching it. Next will be the BBQ at lunch and sticking to the 5 bites.

I couldn’t help myself and weighed in again. One day I felt like I was shrinking but no weight loss. The next day felt normal, not expecting anything and I lose 2 pounds!!

I know my weight drops  down in chunks, so I’m not too concerned. Just staying with the 5 bites. I have kept hydrated all the time, so go figure?

Hey Alison, isn’t great to…[Read more]

Thanks Lynda,

That’s encouraging, hopefully I will notice the same.

I forgot to mention the worst – I have gallstones and have severe intermiitent attacks, sometimes once a week for months sometime once every other month. Seeking relief from these without surgery as well.

Compliments threw me off last time a did a weight watchers diet, got sick of counting points and became complacent. I’m not done until I hit 18.5 BMI. 

More research has been done by  Professor Andrew Brown from the University of NSW. Calorie counting has to be the biggest diet myth out there in my opinion.

https://coach.nine.com.au/2015/02/16/16/38/can-you-breathe-yourself-skinny-how-you-lose-fat-through-exhaling

Hi Allan,

I had a dodgy week with mild indigestion but it seems to have passed. It could have been through large coffee consumption so I’m alternating tea and the odd diet soda here. I’m pretty sure I would have a fatty liver being overweight and consuming too much alcohol, but I’m feeling better than ever before. And simply not being over full…[Read more]