Letileti

Thanks. I am trying to be present here!
With my ups and my downs.

I am writing down what I am doing to keep on track and to remind myself what I am doing!
Thanks to you Dr. Lewis

I use small silver forks or Japanese chopsticks to bring to my mouth food in small bites.
But I try not to worry to much about the exact siZe.
I mean “as soon as I am eating without exceeding and elegantly as if I was eating at a king table, sizes are surely adequate to my mouth

The only way I can “diet” is without dieting at all!
If I mentally should feel deprived, I could not go on.

I use small dishes (children know it and when they are preparing the table they just chop for me the small dish without asking any more. When they have friends if someone is asking they just respond that their mum finds smaller dishes much more elegant!

While eating and sitting nevertheless I am used now to count my bites with my fingers of left hand just lying next of the dish whilst the right hand is bringing food to my mouth.

I keep a fist and I open the finger as soon as food enters in my mouth.
I am finished when all my left hand is totally opened.

Before each bite I try to chew 40 times.…[Read more]

I feel an intuitive eater at their eyes. Because sometimes I need some food some times other.
Some days I eat a little more (as they are daily doing considering that hunger is not always the same) some days less (in order to go back with weight but I do not tell them).

With 5 biting I really appreciate the possibility of eating with all my family.
Tasting their same food and commenting them.

Hot water. Just hot water is very good to reduce my cravings and hunger in the middle endless afternoons.

When I am hungrier at lunch I try to eat some bites of pasta or bread, which I find more fulfilling .
When at lunch I am much more prey of cravings, I try to keep more bites, at least 3 for chocolates or comfort food.

Tonight I had both so I had 3 bites of pasta and 2 of panna cotta with Nutella.

Sometimes it is harder. Eating 5 bites at 1 pm.
Wait for dinner till 9 pm.

Probably the hardest part is not the eating one but the long time among lunch and dinner.
I wake up at 6 am. Before lunchtime I have had at least 5 or six espresso coffees in order to kill hunger.
I have lunch….afternoon is always soooo long to pass without chewing.
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I will weigh in on Thursday. I do not want to be obsessed by weight in order not to lose my mind on perfect 5 bites.

I am doing well. With little up and down but well.

Yes.

Yes. Trying not to think too much at the “results”. Trying to concentrate on perfection of 5 bites!

I haven’t been weighed in over the last days. Nevertheless people around me are telling me I am too skinny. They do not like me because of my face….good sign!

That means it is working out!

I have read that eating habits can be improved improving our environment around us.
The problem is not having excuses to cheat!

Otherwise I can be in an empty room and go out to look for food.

What it is true is that the diet should be not lived as a diet.
And 5 BD is more a lifestyle than a diet!

Yea

Doing very well. Feel strong and happy!

Going on with my planning. Today I am craving something sweet. For lunch with family I will keep some bites for something very special …. :woohoo:

One or two bites of pasta and the other 3 bites for a cream cake I have in my fridge.