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Great, Gayle!  You’ve got a gameplan.  My advice: try something different–something you would never order–from your dinner menu.  Pick something you really don’t like. If people ask why you are ordering something you’d never normally order, just tell them you are expanding your gustatory repertoire.  After a few bites, say something like, “we…[Read more]

Hi Tammy!  Welcome!  You are in a great place to get back all of the control you are looking for!

1.  I like to start of with bars for 1 perfect week.  I know (better yet, YOU know) what your potential weight loss is per week if you doing follow the diet exactly, and I think we all can do just bars for a mere week, right?     After that I lea…[Read more]

Hi Pia.  You weight in your weight tracker show 118.  (117.5 rounds up).  Is this right?  You may need to scroll down in the weight table to see your most recent week and weight.

Right.  Being skinny is unusual–exceptional, but different.  Some view it as abnormal–as if abnormal, based on the new normal, is bad.  In the case of weight, you WANT to be abnormal.  You want to be abnormally thin!

Great job, Pia!  And having a successful weekend is actually MORE enjoyable than “pigging out” throughout the weekend.  It’s hard to do for the first time, but once you do do it, you realize it’s really not that hard and very well worth it!  So right! — If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!

Right.  And ultimately and with time YOU and only YOU are going to figure out which number is best for your body.  But at least give 113 a test drive for awhile.  We’ll see.  Once again, you never need to apologize for being truly exceptional!  

Welcome back, Letileti!  You are amazing and have demonstrated phenomenal control throughout your pregnancy.  Did you have a boy or a girl?  Is this your first child?

Correct, Pia.  Commit to the finish line, then stay consistent.  If it takes two week, so be it.  But stay consistent hour in, hour out, day in, day out.

Right.  You can always have that (whatever that is) some other time.  

Great, Katie!  Keep it going!  You are almost there!  

Right!  

Great work!  (I’m jumping up and down and screaming on the side lines.  Can you here me?)  Keep it going!!   

Right.  Here we are all friends running the same race with the same playbook in hand.  And as each person crosses the finish line, it’s feels like we scored another one for the team.  Go Five-Biters!!  

Libby–I am SO EXCITED for you!  You are EXACTLY RIGHT ON!  When you 5-bite correctly, as you are, it is remarkably liberating.  You can eat absolutely anything, and five bites of what you are craving is often much more filling than 100 bites of something you’re not really craving.  I cannot wait to see where the loss of the next block of wei…[Read more]

Hi LM —

When you are in social situations, imagine that you are playing a game.  It’s a challenge–a very difficult game–but have fun playing it and set out to win it.  Your game is to get through the entire night, as hard as it might be, on 5 bites of regular food.  Go in with that mindset and prove to yourself that you do indeed have the ex…[Read more]

Yes indeed, Gayle.  It is always so exciting to see someone approach the finish line.  These are exciting times!!  

Shelly–how are you doing?  Are you still journaling?  Please update your weight tracker for me.  

Good luck, Pia.  My recommendation: forgo your lunch and keep your dinner to as close to 5 bites as possible (but, the reality is, it will probably be closer to 10 bites, so the day as a whole will be perfect).

Right!