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To add fuel to the fire….so to speak. I can see the discontent on peoples faces when I say yes, you can live off 2 snickers a day. Everyone is pounded by “you must eat a lot of healthy food, super food or die” message. Let me introduce you to the halo effect. I believe a lot of the population are overeating due to this psychological effect. And…[Read more]

My hunger stat is set really well. I don’t stray from the 5 bites, although my childen bitterly complained my bites where too big when I took them out of their Big Macs. Too funny. Anyway, I think it’s really important to stay hydrated, drink whatever zero calorie drinks you need to. When I get dehydrated that’s when the hunger/dehydration plays…[Read more]

I’m really going high end foodie at the moment. I’m enjoying my 5 bites, smoked rainbow trout with pumperknickel bread. I hate been a little naughty and have had wine and gin and tonic. But still strong on the 5 bites.

I’m blown away with the thought that we may have got it completely wrong on the calorie count. Obsessing about energy and not…[Read more]

Day 11

Today has been just like any of the other days after the first 3, slightly uncomfortable, foggy when I stand up too quickly, but otherwise completely managable. I even managed to push through a bunch of manual labor chores without any difficulty at all really. The body just feels different. A little harder to move but it will do so if I…[Read more]

Just take it meal, by meal, Kmarie!  You’ve just prepared your veggie or chicken patty and placed it in front of you.  Then the show begins.  The lights go out and the curtain raises.  The spotlight is on you and your food.  The role you are playing is that of a perfect 5-biter, and the entire world wants to see how well you can perform.  PLE…[Read more]

Indeed.  Great job.  Just because you are going out doesn’t mean you can’t be PERFECT.  AND … when you are done losing weight, you can go back to the same restaurant and eat carelessly, if you want.  So there is NO REASON why you should eat more than 5 bites now.  Good luck!  

killing it! i’m about to eat dinner now myself. I hope I can do as good as you are when I get to 4 weeks

Day 3 just bars ✅

24 perfect days in a row ✅

I feel really good today. I was busier than usual so it seemed to fly by but when I made dinner, savory food smelled sooooooooooooooo good after 3 days of snickers so I plated up the kids’ food, took a deep inhale of the food then rushed out the door for a walk. Almost halfway through my week of just…

Yes, me too. If I dwell on the entire amount of weight I have to go or spend too much time calculating how long it will take me, I get overwhelmed and give up. Which makes no sense logically but if I find mini checkpoints to focus on, I feel like I’m racking up the points like a champ and it feels easy and very possible!

The first week, it helped me to get up right after my 5 bites at dinner and go out for a walk while my family finished and the food was put away. I’ve also done that on a few tougher days since then. If you see you’re slipping up the same way each time, try to find a way to take that factor out of the equation, even if just for the first week. (Oh…[Read more]

Great! Just get through today!

Isn’t it funny when you think of all the prepwork of shopping, learning new foods and where to find them, planning, scheduling, all the other diets require. So simple it feels wrong 

I’m back on track so far today, it’s still early. I’ve had coffee and water. I plan on have 3 bites of a veggie patty and 2 bites of a chicken patty for lunch and dinner.

I’m keeping it up. I had my bar today for lunch. I’m keeping my head high and my brain focused on the goal. Darn hormones!

Brush it off and just keep going, focus on the next 5 bites rather than racking up the mistakes you’ve made in the past. Those will only serve to hold you down and make you think you aren’t capable of moving forward. And you are capable since you have done so well too, get up right back on the horse.

I love the simplicity of that. everyone is telling us to do all of these difficult things to lose weight when really it’s about NOT doing something, not eating.

Right? It’s a lot more fun if I think of it like that and also if I can feel that the next milestone is very attainable.

This diet is surreal in many ways but the biggest part is watching such big numbers on the scale each week. To think of a time in my life when I worked out up to 5 hours a day kickboxing, weight lifting, running, stair climbing, and eating protein bars and shakes, only to lose half a pound to a pound a week for a couple months. How frustrating it…[Read more]

Why did you eat more at dinner?

Awesome Chloe, It’s helpful to keep reaching for the next milestone. It reminds me of when I was a kid at an arcade on a race car game where every so often the machine would yell “checkpoint!” and that feels like major progress!