drlewis

I describe this in pretty good detail in the first chat I gave a year or two again.  Maybe you can join me at my next chat and I can go over this in more detail.  Sound good?

Right Barbie.  And this whole journey is a learning process.  You will learn how to control physical hunger, mental hunger, and how much better life is when you are thin.  The trick, as always, is to barrel your way to the finish line at all costs.  THEN Stage 2 begins, and your life is going to be spectacular!

For now, when you get those ove…[Read more]

Absolutely.  My only recommendation is this: after chewing the gum, don’t swallow it.  Spit it out!  

Awesome, you guys.  Chelstems: OMG, you are going to HAWAII!  Don’t even consider eating a 6th bite for either of your two meals, and if I’m you, those bites are SMALL at that.  Do you know how amazing you feel sporting a new bikini on the beaches of Hawaii??!!  This is the biggest no-brainer of all time.  YES–you might be hungry from time to t…[Read more]

Great.  Thanks!

Wonderful!  I’m thrilled to have you here as well!  Would you please fill out your weight tracker info so I can follow your progress?  Thanks!!  Al.  

That’s good to know.  Thanks.

Oops.  I certainly don’t want to lose anymore weight.  I’ll have to fix that.  Can you just see your stats and mine, or can everyone see everyone else’s stats?

I’ll be honest with you guys: I don’t know what you see.  When you go to the weigh tracker, you see your stats–and mine?  Could someone please tell me.

I just revised my data to more correctly reflect my weight loss.  I did all of this some 15 years ago.  I’ve been at 128 since.

Ann.  Fine, but don’t throw out your scale.  You will need it to finely titrate your weight when you hit your magic number.  For now, just use the scale once a week.  But when you are skinny, step on it frequently until you know and can feel how weight fluctuates about your ideal number.  I can tell you what I weigh to the 0.5 pound sens…[Read more]

I love that: … Did you lose weight?

“I have no idea!”  

My take is this: Everyone–women more than men, maybe–but everyone talks and obsesses about weight, because NO ONE is at their goal weight.  EVERYONE has a single number where their body runs at it’s best.  Mine is 127.  That may go down a pound or so decades from now, but that’s my…[Read more]

Welcome, Ann!  You are definitely in the right place.  I’m going to send you some questions after I take a peek at your weight tracker: we’ll go from there.

Your difficulty sleeping is common, and we’ve all felt it to some degree, but it goes away fairly quickly!  You were SO CLOSE!  I’m going to help you hang in there this time, overcome tha…[Read more]

I really like that, Tao.  Thanks!  

Great.  

And remember, Tao, that this whole process that we all are engaged in is one of learning.  We learn so much about ourselves and our habits along the way.  How easily we fall back into old habits!, but we learn that too!  And with all this learning, we learn how to keep our health, which is priority #1, in perfect perspective.  We learn that the…[Read more]

Yep!  Weight loss is all a mental game.  But you guys have the tools to play this game better than anyone else.  So I’m going to hold you are to that perfect standard … I expect everyone here to walk out, one day, super thin and fit.  

Yep!  Weight loss is all a mental game.  But you guys have the tools to play this game better than anyone else.  So I’m going to hold you are to that perfect standard … I expect everyone here to walk out, one day, super thin and fit.  

I think that’s fine.  I would just be aware of all the excess food surrounding you at your family’s.  Taste everything, fill up, and finish nothing.  I think that is a good mantra to live by for the next couple of weeks.