Jane Tanner

Hi everyone!

Thank you Dr Lewis!

It’s Sunday morning here now.

My weight before using the bathroom was 52.6 kg / 116 lbs / 17.6 bmi.

After using the bathroom my weight was 52.1 kg / 114.9 lbs / 17.4 bmi.

I’ll have another five bite day today, and tomorrow I’ll be back in maintenance.

Onwards!

Hi everyone!

It’s the evening now, almost seven hours past my lunch. My weight is down to 52.8 kg.

I think that it’s possible that tomorrow morning I’ll be back at my goal weight again, 52.5 kg. That’s on one day of the five bite diet, and one day after a fairly big eating episode. It’s encouraging! I underestimate how quickly the weight drops…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

It’s four hours after breakfast, and I’ve had lunch: overnight oats with yoghurt and jam.

It was a one minute, unspectacular five bite meal, which felt comforting to me.

I notice how much I enjoy the calm feeling of being on the five bite diet again.

I wonder if I’m one of the people who love to be on the diet, and will overeat so…[Read more]

Hi Alaska Gal, hang in there!

Hi everyone!

Yesterday night before finally going to sleep, I had what I believe and hope was a mind-set breakthrough.

I was thinking about how to best do the five bite diet, and what it was that I was doing that was making maintenance complicated for me.

I thought about having smaller than five bite meals, to get back to my goal weight…[Read more]

Thanks Samantha!

We’re lucky to have the five bite diet, and the scale, to help us get back on track.

In a nutshell, I’ve mostly eaten too much since being in and out of maintenance.

So here’s the plan for my next time in maintenance: eat enough, and don’t eat too much.

Back on track!

Brilliantly done!

I’m joining you tomorrow!

Onwards!

Hi again everyone!

Of course it’s a five bite day tomorrow!

The fastest way back to sanity!

Onwards!

ps. ps. I see now that I didn’t brush my teeth and prepare for the night like I normally do. I will remember to do this tomorrow, I will brush my teeth before “dinner-time” to help me know and accept that eating is done for the day.

Onwards!

ps. I’m wondering: should I eat less, for my two meals, in general?

I’m beginning to think so. I will try this tomorrow. Much less, maybe half? I had a 30 bite breakfast today. I’ll try a 15 bite breakfast tomorrow and see how I fare. Lunch will also be a 15 biter. I will try it and see!

Onwards!

Hi everyone!

I’m eating my own words now, as I have had an eating episode this past hour.

It began with a thought: how about if I try out having something in the evening, after all, just a small snack, something light?

So I did. And then I had another idea of what would be a good snack, then another, and another, and so on. Now it has settled…[Read more]

Thank you Samantha!

Less is the new more!

Onwards!

Hi everyone!

I’ll try something new the next time when I feel that I want more, when I feel reluctant to share with the compost bin, or when I feel reluctant to only have half of something:

I’ll immediatly remove something from my plate! Less, instead of more!

I’ll either reduce my portion, or remove an item completely.

Either I’ll put the…[Read more]

Thank you Dr Lewis!

I went to the allotment before lunch, and it was a pleasure.

Now I’m back home, I’ve had lunch, and it was a fairly moderate meal. I had ham with bearnaise sauce (9 bites), chicken (2 bites), yoghurt with frosties (4 bites), half of a coconut cake (2 bites), pancake with jam (3 bites), a piece of a cabbage roll (3 bites), mac…[Read more]

You’re on board and in the mood!

ps.

I’m noticing: when I was at the allotment yesterday, I didn’t use my little stool to sit on.

Previously, and shall I say about 45-50 lbs ago, I was always using my little stool to garden.

Yesterday I was squatting, effortlessly. (And almost effortlessly getting up again.)

This, if this remains the case, means that I don’t need to bring my…[Read more]

Hi everyone!
It’s a new day here, it’s the First of May.

I’ve had a breakfast of 30 bites: apple, yoghurt with granola, pancake with jam, sausage with ketchup, chicken, cod, mashed potato, mac&cheese, scrambled egg, soup, and bread with cheese.

Looking back and writing this all down, I do not feel deprived at all! I enjoyed it all.

My weight…[Read more]

How wonderful, Samantha!

Onwards!

Great to read your text, Alaska Gal!

With time and fewer bites, the weight comes off.

Truth is good.

I’ve fired the evening eater. She’s too unreliable.

An early breakfast, an early lunch, and no eating after mid-day for me.

I have water in the evening before bed. That feels good.

It’s the calm that I’m after. Calmness feels better than the…[Read more]

Hi Alaska Gal!

These things happen now and then, almost like the desperate habits from before playing out everything they know to do, wanting us to be our old selves with them again.

We’ll make new choices after a few rounds of being hijacked by the old, and find new habits. There’s a beautiful new landscape further along the path, that’s what…[Read more]