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36 days down! I was super vigilant today with my bites and weighed my lunch and dinner food. Coffee for breakfast, salami with cheese for lunch, tuna casserole for dinner. I’m sticking with it and we’ll see what happens next Monday!

I agree Lynda!

Chloe, as a fellow run-and-hider, I wanted to share with you that my first instinct this morning when the scale showed only 2 pounds lost, was to hide out until next Monday where i’d hope to put up a bigger number. My fear was that people would see the 2 pounds and say, “she must not REALLY be following the plan.” But then I…[Read more]

Great job Lynda, when I make lunch for my kids, that’s a big grazing time for me so I’ve purposely bought food I don’t like for their lunches so I don’t nibble as I prepare. I make the food quick and get far away from the kitchen!

Interesting about the guy to the South Pole!

Alison

This week I lost only 2 pounds. This would usually throw me off the diet because I know I am following it 100% and 2 pounds is so little but again, I’m not going to obsess because giving up will only lead me to gain weight and 2 pounds is better than gaining. I’m just going to push through and see what next week brings! Also, by this time on any…[Read more]

The number of diets I have tried in the past and have not been able to stick to is endless. Weight watchers, low carb, low calorie, the great Australian diet, jenny craig, CSIRO diet. It’s embarrassing, but this is by far the easiest “life style change” I have made. It’s time efficient, not fostering obsessive behaviour, fits into my lifestyle…[Read more]

Hi Lynda, this definitely works much better for long term control, and you don’t have the complications and recovery from surgery! It’s great you can model a better option!

35 days ✅

breakfast coffee, lunch snickers, dinner mini slices of salami with dill havarti cheese (I weighed it out to be the same as a half snickers and was surprised at how…[Read more]

Great tip about having a variety of bites. Then I don’t feel like I’ve missed out on anything. I got inspiration about looking for a free to eat what you want diet but limit the amount when I went out to the top restaurant in town here. They serve bite size tasty morsels in between what you ordered. And I was thinking I would have been happy with…[Read more]

My weakness is the tiredness and hunger hitting me while I’m preparing food for the kids. I fell off the wagon twice this week 10 bites of picking at food. So I am making a point of not being in the kitchen when that hits and just doing something else until it passes. I empathise with the Thai food. I got rid of all my green curry from the…[Read more]

Great insight, Gayle!!  

Indeed!  Great job, Leona!  

So I’ve lost another 4 pounds. No sugary drinks or alcohol. I did have 2 slip ups. Blew out to about 10 small bites while tired and preparing food for kids at 5pm-6pm on 2 nights. So I’ve prepared dinners so I don’t have to be around the kitchen when I’m hungry and ready to graze, tempted to pick at food.

But I’m happy with the ongoing 2 kg a…[Read more]

Fantastic Chloe! It’s great when a few people on here are all really trucking along together! (Oh but please stop with all the Thai food! I’ve been avoiding Pad Thai because it is one food that I looooooooove to eat way beyond full and I don’t feel quite ready to attempt it!)

Yahoo!!!! That’s awesome!!! You are completely back on track and rocking! Great work 

Thanks Leona, I’m keeping it simple and just doing it, day in, day out. Like Dr. Lewis told me, I’m just being a 5-biter and every day it gets more and more my new “normal” and I no longer think, “I’ll be happy when I get to my goal because then I can go back to eating ‘normal'” because this IS normal, not what I used to eat! Also, I’m not…[Read more]

You are killing it!

Thanks!  Finished out with 12 lbs down!

Day 21

Just checking in! So far so good, lunch and dinner both 5 bites of thai curry, one meal with rice, the other with pita bread. It’s nice to be back in control. I intende to “top up” tomorrow after my weigh in then continue 5 bites for the course of the week.