Rachel

June 13 Update (day 8):

Yesterday I let my foot off the accelerator a little. I ate an extra 5 bites after dinner, after a day of doctor/pharmacy visits for my son’s pneumonia and lung infection. Plus 2 glasses of wine. So total bites yesterday came to 15. Back on track today though!

Since my son will be at his dad’s home for a few days for the…[Read more]

Oh no! I hadn’t heard that autopsy result yet about Dr Mosely. Very sad.
My sons diagnosis is pneumonia with a lung infection, and it was exasperated by the heat and swimming activity yesterday. Thankful he is on a healing path now.

Thank you for sharing your story! Yes, dieting, it’s a big head game. Through therapy, I had to find alternative stress relief methods, or ways to combat food noise in my head. I found the Calm App helpful, especially their SOS anxiety relief meditations. Stress relief vitamin gummies and tea are a great tool I use, as well as finding s…[Read more]

June 11th update (day 6):

Things are going pretty well still!

I wasn’t hungry most of the day. I didn’t do bars, and instead had 5 bites of an engilsh muffin with avocado and vegan cream chese for both lunch and dinner. Around 7pm, I had a huge hunger pain hit and I found myself starting to nibble on a couple things before I realized what…[Read more]

June 10th update (Day 5):

Unfortunately, it wasn’t a perfect day yesterday, but it was pretty darn close! My 5 bites were tofu hot dogs for lunch, and spaghetti for dinner. I let some extra bites in when my son made popcorn while we were watching a movie.

Scale is still going down, luckily.

SW: 244
CW: 237.4

Today I am aiming for b…[Read more]

Great job Allison!

We are all rooting for you, and know you will get to the finish line!

Enjoy your vacation! You will do great, I am certain of it.

June 6th Update:

Good morning! I have lost more weight in the last 4 days, than the last 6 months on my plant based coaching program. I am shook.

There was always this little voice in my head that was sounding an alarm, every time the plant based coaches kept telling me to eat more volume and calories to see the weight loss. It was like I…[Read more]

Thank you!

Thank you both! I did okay yesterday, but not perfect. Aiming for a perfect day today!

Yesterday I ate a nutrition bar for lunch, and dinner.  The day before I had a nutrition bar for lunch, and rice and broccoli for dinner (more than 5 bites), and then failed to weigh in the next day.  I really need to stick to those bars, because right now even just a few bites of “healthy food” will lead me to overeating.

My weight c…[Read more]

Doing well still.  However, I need to start posting here daily for accountability.  Yesterday I ate a nutrition bar for lunch, and ate 5 bites of rice and broccoli for dinner.

I am reading literature about compulsive overeating, including stories of people who have overcome it. I started a routine of reading this material in the morning, and m…[Read more]

I weighed in today, and I gained 2lbs back last week.  Not too surprised since I had more bad days than good.  But I feel like the last 2 days have gone really well, and I am gaining momentum and confidence.  I had perfect days on Sunday, Monday, and doing well today (Tuesday).

Late Saturday night, I caved and ate extra bites.  I didn’t go totally off the rails, but I certainly didn’t abstain from those extra bites.  Sunday was much better and stuck to the plan 100%.

Trying to decide if weighing in tomorrow will be helpful or hurtful.  I feel like I am finally starting to make some progress towards on plan eating, an…[Read more]

Thanks again Gayle!  I started reading through some materials on a local Overeaters Anonymous website.  Not sure I will join the group, but I am loving all the free information there.  I saw this quote there, and I am using this as my mantra today:

Put down the fork, and pick up your life.

Today is going pretty well.  I had my lunch bar, and kee…[Read more]

Another day of 5 bite eating in the books!

The withdrawals hit again last night.  Ug. It was really rough, but I made it through without binge eating.  I think the culprit was eating some regular food as my dinner, rather than the bars.

Dr. L – I channeled you all, and was literally screaming at myself last night to not eat more f…[Read more]