Jane Tanner

I’m telling myself this. It helps!

I saw a few pictures in your previous posts, your bites look positively amazing!

Hang in there Kylie!

The fat cells are throwing a tantrum, and you’re fine!

They don’t like it, and you do!

Hi everyone!

This morning my weight was 51.5 kg / 113.5 lbs / 17.2 bmi.

That’s the right way I feel! Slowly and steady. I’ll have another 3B3B day today, and I’m using my 1 tablespoon (15 ml) measure = 3B, to remind me of the importance of staying within the limitations of the 3B today.

In a sense, I’m cheating using the measuring spoons. I…[Read more]

Hi Kylie!

It’s good to have you in the future already, checking out what’s happening.

Thank you for writing and for sharing how it’s going for you.

I’ve read that the more times we start with the 5BD, the easier it gets.

It seems to be that this is true. 1.9 kg is a wonderful loss!

What route are you on for the bites? I mean food or…[Read more]

Hi Kylie in Oz!

Thank you for your kind words.

I’m wondering and wondering what will happen here in maintenance.

I would like to feel a bit more wiggle-room soon.

Patience is a virtue and all we do is wait and breathe and leave the food alone.

How did you do today Kylie?

All the best to you.

Hi everyone!

For my second three bites today I had three smaller than typical bites of grilled cheese, and then I added the last bite of a shrimp and egg sandwich, making for a little bigger volume meal than I had planned. How easily that happens… Tomorrow I will pay attention and stay focused from start to finish around my two meals.

I have a…[Read more]

Yay for feeling good on a 5 bites day!

Hi again!

I feel a new sense of relief now in experiencing, knowing, and trusting that I can use the 5BD to control my body weight. It seems strange that I would still have doubts. I should have known and trusted this now that I’ve been on the 5BD for a while and now navigating maintenance. Some thoughts take longer time to sink in for me. I feel…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

This morning my weight has dropped by 0.6 kg / 1.2 lbs, from the sudden over-eating weight:

51.6 kg / 113.8 lbs / 17.2 bmi

I’ll do another 3B day today.

It’s not that I’m against weight gain. It’s that I’d rather it come slowly and steadily by me increasing my daily meals bite by bite, and not from one or two days of mad o…[Read more]

Hi Kylie!

Good to see yet another fellow 5-biter.

Hi everyone!

For my second meal I had a 3B piece of a sandwich straight from the freezer without thawing it or putting it in the air-fryer for a minute. It was a bit strange. I managed to stay focused for the rest of the day, even with cooking up a little snack for tomorrow. It’s a relaxing process with the 5B sometimes.

All the best until next…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

I’m still in maintenance. Instead of 6B like I thought was a good idea yesterday, I’m doing 3B today. I feel so good with smaller meals! Aiming for stability. Fewer bites = less apetite stimulation.

For my first meal I had 3 bites of a chocolate cereal bar. Very lovely!

All the best until next time!

Hi everyone!

I engaged in a bout of over-eating, eventually finding out that indeed, I do not like peanuts coated with wasabi. I have tasted (a lot) and tossed the nuts. I plan to stick to six bites per meal over the coming days. I think it was a bit to intense for me to increase the number of bites every day.

All the best until next time!

My pleasure, Alaska Gal!

It’s easier with smaller bites, I know it sounds a bit contra-intuitive.

Eating more sparks more hunger for me. I’ve tested it plenty of times!

Hi again everyone!

Going by what I understand as the dividing line between morning weigh-in after bathroom (weight-loss phase) and morning weigh-in before bathroom (maintenance phase). Meaning that when the before bathroom weigh-in is at goal weight, I shift to it. Is that right? (And with this in mind, anything above goal weight then shifts back…[Read more]

Wait a  minute… I see that I’ve kept my maintenance weight chart incorrectly. In maintenance the weight used is from right after getting up in the morning, before using the bathroom. I’ve wrongly continued to use the after-bathroom data. I’ll look over my notes and update my weight chart. Just out of curiousity.

Here you can see the bumping around, and what the snickers did to my bmi chart:

Hi Alaska Gal!

For my sprint I ate 1/4 of a snickers bar twice a day. I started on March 9th, after ten days of eating too much, then eating less, repeat repeat. My weight was bumping around.

March 9th 122.6 lbs.

March 10th 120.8 lbs

March 11th 118.4 lbs

March 12th 117 lbs

March 13th 115.5 lbs

So that’s how I got back to my goal weight and…[Read more]

Hi Alaska Gal!

Yes, a teaspoon (5 ml) is what I’ve found works the best for my bite size. It’s small enough that it doesn’t spark hunger, and at the same time, the taste of the food is there all the same. For snickers, the 50 gram bar here equals 40 ml. In my last sprint to my goal I had 1/4 of a bar per meal. That was 2 bites, meaning 2…[Read more]