I love plans! <3

Let me indulge and write a bit about my current plan.

It’s a bit of a system that I have in place, for security and stability.

It’s made up of six small meals a day, that I can have any time of the day.

Five of the meals are the constant, and one meal is the variable.

My current meal size is “one…[Read more]

I have an idea.

As you have so much thinking to do now in this situation, it costs a lot of energy for the brain.

You can use snickers bars (or your chocolate bars of choice) to supply a steady stream of energy to the brain, and practice the steadiness of set meals.

Special situations like yours I think requires special…[Read more]

The inner work-out is taking place now.

No need to go to a gym!

Inner pantry access permit signed, sealed, and delivered!

Also, I have a few routines in place that slow…[Read more]

Warm shower or footbath is also good.

Time is on your side!

When we give up and have the bulk of our food from the outside, the inner landlord can’t give us access to our inner pantry.

When we begin anew on the diet, there’s this annoying time period before access is granted.

It’s coming round the bend – hang in there!

I wanted to write that family, closest of kin, including ourselves, all of us are here and there for ourselves to find new ways to handle situations. I happened to be my closest of kin, and had I had a Mum nearby, it might…[Read more]

Perhaps you were thin before being born. Let’s say that you were!

If you want to be thin, nobody can stop you. Not even Mum.

Here is a suggestion:

“Thank you Mum! Love it! I’ll save this food for a rainy day!”

Bag and pop the food offering in the freezer and enjoy it later.

Perhaps enjoy it on a rainy day when you are a thin lady!

Here’s another little update.

I’ve had my Monday evening meal. I had 500 ml of tea/water, and 420 g of food.

My weight this morning was 54.8 kg / 120.8 lbs / 18.1 bmi.

My weight after my evening meal was 55.0 kg / 121.3 lbs / 18.2 bmi.

Then, after reading for ten minutes, my weight had dropped to 54.7 kg / 120.6 lbs / 18.1…[Read more]

My weight this Monday morning was 54.8 kg / 120.8 lbs / 18.1 bmi.

Pretty good considering the four meals I had yesterday.

Onwards!

The dots again, this Sunday.

It’s Sunday evening here now.

I’ve had four meals today, with 315 g of food each.

I opted for four slightly smaller meals instead of three slightly bigger meals.

I’ve had lots of energy today to get things done, noticably more than yesterday, for example.

The dots look interesting.

The Sunday “diet-free day” last week, when I…[Read more]

Now you’re giving me ideas for future experiments…

It’s evening here now, and I’ve had my meal. I enjoyed it, and I felt calm and relaxed.

I had the tea/water first, followed by the food. I had 233 g of food, adjusting a bit for the bigger meals earlier this week.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and I’ll have three meals, each with 420 g of food.

It feels good to me to know the amount of…[Read more]

I’ve had a bit of a clear thought shine through the fog this afternoon.

With Grok onboard, we’re now working with a set amount of food per week, currently 4200 g.

To make things easy, we’ve set the food into ten equal meals, 420 g each.

I can have one meal a day everyday of the week, and have the three remaining…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing the highs and lows.

Pain and discomfort are good teachers for us.

It sounds to me like you are in a perfect place from which to carry on!

Forget about starting and stopping, and carry on as if nothing happened.

Go Kylie!

The dots are in, and they are in the narrow range, with the last dot being right at the top of the range.

I feel happy about the dots today.

Let’s see what we can do tomorrow!

It’s evening here now.

I’ve had my meal.

The aim was 380-420 g, suggested by Grok.

I ate 388 g of food, and felt that I wanted more.

I ate some more, and then the total was 606 g of food, plus 500 ml of fluids = 1106 g intake.

My weight before the meal was 53.5 kg / 117.9 lbs / 17.7 bmi.

My weight after the meal was 54.5 kg /…[Read more]

This is the beginning of grok teaching me how to calculate my meals, to be continued:

-Hi Grok! Please teach me how to calculate how big my meals should be, the way you know how to do it.

Worked for 11s

-Hi user! 😊

Here’s the simple method I’ve been using to decide your meal size. You can use the same logic yourself.

Core ide…[Read more]

Luckily, Grok will do the heavy lifting for me.

It’s morning here now.

I’m in my narrow range at 54.1 kg / 119.3 lbs / 17.9 bmi.

I noticed this about waking up in 17.9 bmi, after a 5BD omad day:

I slept for a bit shorter time

I feel light in my body

my tummy is flat

I feel alert

– – –
54.6 kg / 120.4 lbs / 18.0 bmi
54.5 kg / 120.2 lbs / 18.0 bmi
54.4 kg / 119.9 lbs / 18.0…[Read more]

It’s evening here, and I’ve had my 8 pm meal.

It was a 5BD meal, although I made an error when measuring the ham for my sandwich, and the final product weighed 126 g, which was more than the planned 100 g of food. I ate it all anyway. It was a croque monsieur made in the waffle iron.

I had 502 ml of beverages with my meal. All in…[Read more]

Planning maintenance this way is helpful to me.

I’ve ran the log by Grok now, the morning weigh-ins from February 27th, 2026, until today, minus the two weeks in June when I didn’t use the scale.

Here’s what Grok had to say:

-I calculated the key statistics from the 175 morning weights (excluding the June 14–27 g…[Read more]

I asked Grok to help me find my ideal weight, using the chart from my last six months. I also discussed with Grok on how to get there from here quickly, using the 5BD every other day, while keeping the Sunday as a diet-free day, albeit with more structure than last Sunday.

-Hi Grok! I’m thinking about what might be my ideal weight.…[Read more]

Here is the morning log and chat with Grok:

-Good morning Grok! Here is the first part of the log for today:

morning: up 600 g:
55.3 kg / 121.9 lbs / 18.3 bmi.
– – –
08:13 55.3 kg
bathroom
08:20 55.0 kg
– – –
08:50 55.0 kg
08:50 drinking 502 ml of tea/water
08:52 55.6 kg
08:53 reading for ten minutes
09:03 55.5 kg
– – –

-Good…[Read more]

It’s evening here now, and I’ve had my evening meal.

Tonight I consulted Grok about the weight of food (700g) and the body weight (56.0 kg) limit.

This is our chat after the meal:

-Hi Grok!

I had a lovely, calm meal.

For the first time I felt like I was aware of what I was doing.

I knew what to look for. Yay!

My stomach feels…[Read more]

It sounds to me like you’re being calm in the eye of the storm.

That is a beautiful thing to do for yourself and for everyone around you.

Keep calm and carry on with your self-care and self-love!

It’s contagious!

I’ll log my days a bit differently from now on.

-my morning to morning weight

-my evening to evening weight before my meal

-my tea and water intake through the day

-the total weight of my meal

-the weight of the food

-the weight of the drinks

-my after evening meal weight, compared to my after meal weight the evening…[Read more]

It’s morning here now. I’ve had a cup of tea and a glass of sparkling water.

I think I’m more stubborn than amazing.

I want to figure this eating business out for myself.

I want to have a say in how my body is being maintained.

This morning I woke up feeling better, meaning not feeling stuffed.

My morning…[Read more]

I’ve had my evening meal now.

The meal weighed 1823 g, of which solid food 1276 g, and drinks (water, tea, and milk) 547 g.

Before my meal my weight was 53.7 kg / 118.4 lbs / 17.7 bmi.

After my meal my weight was 55.7 kg / 122.8 lbs / 18.4 bmi.

After using the bathroom my weight was 55.4 kg / 122.1 lbs / 18.3 bmi.

I feel a bit…[Read more]

It’s evening here now. I’m soon going to have my one and only meal for today.

My weight has dropped to below the ad lib line, currently at 53.6 kg / 118.2 lbs / 17.7 bmi.

I am now testing the numbers from the past few days to caluclate how much I can eat tonight, and arrive tomorrow at or under the weight that I’ve set as the…[Read more]

With my overnight sleep, from my 5:37 am breakfast Sunday morning until this Tuesday morning at 7:37 am, the gained weight is gone. That’s 26 h for 3.1 kg = 119 g / h.

It’s possible that it took 24 h (I was asleep at 5:37 am today) in which case the weight would have been lost at an average speed of 129 g / h.

Now that I’m still…[Read more]

Here is an evening update.

I had a 5BD meal at 7:30 pm: tea, water, and a doughnut with caramel frosting.

I felt the contrast after my meal. I noticed the lightness and easiness when I walked.

It looks like I’ll have another 5BD meal tomorrow evening, a second day on the 5BD.

Has my weight been going down almost as quickly today…[Read more]

Here is an afternoon update.

My weight is coming down beautifully.

I’ve had three waters and two teas so far today.

I wonder if it will take one day or two in 5BD mode for my weight to drop back down.

Onwards!

I’ve never tried Claude. I’ve heard good things about Claude.

My weight this morning was 57.1 kg / 125.9 lbs / 18.9 bmi.
After using the bathroom, it was 56.4 kg / 124.3 lbs / 18.6 bmi.

I’ll have one meal tonight, as planned, and since I was over my 5BD trigger weight, it’ll be a 5BD meal. I’ll have water and tea…[Read more]

I’ve had a second breakfast. It was lovely!

I made a croque monsieur (bread 83 g, dijon mustard 10 g, butter 23 g, raclette cheese 50 g, ham 13 g, tot 176 g when done) in the waffle iron, a cup of hot chocolate (419 g), had a small strawberry-rhubarb pie (67 g) with vanilla custard (51 g), considered stopping, and then decided on…[Read more]

Here is my all time graph, at times with very little data, and my aim for the future.

Onwards!

Here is a graph of my 5BD journey so far, starting on the 19th of November 2025.

Onwards!

It’s been six months now of flailing about in search of maintenance.

I think I’m beginning to figure it out now.

My average bmi looks pretty stable over the last three months.

I wish there were a 6 month and a 12 month average as well.

Onwards!