https://theslimmingstation.com/members/inhalekale/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of Inhalekale's favorites. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:38:02 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 94355c785d805c81ced87e144e3298a6 https://theslimmingstation.com/forums/topic/my-november-journal-w-5-bitesx2-food-weigh-in/#post-175169 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:30:57 -0700 Great.  When you take a step back and look down on your life–what you’ve accomplished and where you want to go–sticking to 5 bites for a mere 2 weeks seems ridiculously obvious.  “Just do it!”  But when mealtime comes you’ve got a lot a factors working against what seems so easy and obvious right now: hunger, the amazing smell of food that ge…[Read more]

]]> 6177d665d17092fc54be9f4b6cbf2091 https://theslimmingstation.com/forums/topic/lauras-journal/page/2/#post-174472 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:51:50 -0700 I like this.  I remind patients all the time that they have plenty of salad, vegetables, and fruits already stored in the body, and their is no point in putting more in.  I also have them practice some imagery: Envision yourself sitting down and consuming all kinds of food that you would like to eat.  Smell how fresh the food is.  Notice how coo…[Read more]

]]> 845fe696a2c9be2f9c3ef711f4f94a86 https://theslimmingstation.com/forums/topic/gayles-journal/page/6/#post-174388 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:46:19 -0700 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]

]]> 2c60e9fe4ceee703ef3e41ecb92e65db https://theslimmingstation.com/forums/topic/spiderchlomes-journal/page/7/#post-172988 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:08:07 -0700 Ah, Chloe, but you are clever enough to recognize you own self-sabotaging thoughts of premature success.  You recognize that those thoughts are TRYING to disrupt your progress (Goodness!  It seems like the whole world is against us–trying to derail us in one way or another.  People, thoughts, things…this is a tough fight!  But stand strong, and…[Read more]

]]> 8a17c4195c503eea381634aea1711f30 https://theslimmingstation.com/forums/topic/using-equanimity-to-combat-hunger/#post-171568 Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:57:23 -0700 This is great, Chloe; thanks for sharing!  It goes along with my hunger exercise: focus on the hunger pain until it dissipates.  Focus on its size, its color, its location, its activity, etc.  Does the hunger have claws and teeth?  How many?  Is it snarling or making some other sound?  Then practice cornering it from all sides in your mind until…[Read more]

]]> a56e21c696724c0554af3516cfda5d46 https://theslimmingstation.com/forums/topic/need-help-2/#post-170761 Thu, 05 Jul 2018 06:40:40 -0700 No.  This diet does not “mess” with your metabolism.  Understand, though, what the metabolism is:  the energy required to run the body’s essential functions.  The only thing that slows–and only temporarily–is your GI tract, because you are putting less in.  But when you are thin, you will resume eating and everything will be exactly where it w…[Read more]

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