spiderchlome

Day 4

165.5, 7.5 lbs down

Lunch: 5 bites vegan pizza

Dinner: 5 bites massaman curry

Killing it! Even trained quite a lot today. Making it boring and pushing through. 

Day 3 Sat

167 this morning, 6lbs down

Lunch and Dinner: 5 bites vegan pizza

I’m feeling good this weekend. Been training way more than usual, still feeling good. Easiest day 3 yet! Good luck this weekend y’all.

Yes for the most part I haven’t experienced the super terrible hypoglycemic moments I had the first time I went through. Knowing that I have done this before helps me relax about the process a little bit better. I know I can do it, it’s just a waiting game now.

Dr. Lewis, did you have a bout with recidivism?

Thanks doc, you’re totally right. It’s just interesting to think about the math on it. It really concretizes what is happening moment to moment as I breathe out knowing weight is being lost.

Day 2

Lunch: 5 bites of vegan italian sausage

Dinner: 5 bites of spaghetti and not-meatballs

Today has been incredibly easy and I even trained parkour for…[Read more]

169 this morning. Back in the 160s. I checked my weight loss over night to see how much I am breathing out and it looks like I am only losing about half a lb over the course of 8 hours. So that’s 1.5 lbs per day which is 10.5 lbs per week. That’s 42 lbs in 4 weeks. If I am eating 4 oz of food per day that’s 28 oz per week and 112 oz per month…[Read more]

Day 1 (again)

I was at 172 this morning.

I think not eating in the morning helps quite a lot with hunger issues. I did not feel very hungry today at all. Was even considering skipping dinner but thought better of it. I had plain coffee for breakfast and even though I have not been a coffee drinker for most of my life, I am starting to enjoy the…[Read more]

Thank you Gayle! Yes that hit me hard when Laura said she was inspired by reading my journal whilst I was in the midst of being off the diet entirely. I think I am certainly motivated to not let other people down no matter how small the commitment. Anyways I got through last night pretty easily with some miso soup and a diet soda. When I remind…[Read more]

Thanks for the vote of confidence guys. I fell off the rails after 4 days this time.  I gave in to candy at work and I went straight back to some of my recent patterns. I’m trying not to beat myself up. It took a lot just to drag myself back over to the forums here to admit my failures. I was just going to disappear and try something else but…[Read more]

10/24/18

Day 3

Breakfast: toast with almond butter, 5 bites

Lunch: Miso ramen soup 5 bites plus the broth

Lots of temptations at work but no slip ups. I seem to be doing pretty okay energy-wise. Looking forward to my numbers tomorrow. I see myself finally dropping into the mindset where I realize that food is not going to solve any of the…[Read more]

Yes 130 is the goal. Getting into the 140s is one of the major milestones though. I don’t seem to have an issue with carbs or sugar and overeating on those especiallly if I know it’s okay to have them. When I have the mentality that I can never have something, it makes me want it even more. I think in psychology it’s called the “ironic rebound…[Read more]

Thanks Gayle. Yes knowing what to expect helps so much to alleviate the fear around eating this way that I experienced the first time through.

10/23/18

Day 2

I weighed in at 167 this morning. It is going down quick and I already feel so much better than I expected right away. I noticed it most with my ease of movement and my ability to climb up…[Read more]

I experienced terrible digestive issues when I attempted to get back to a “normal” eating pattern too. I actually found that I could eat 150 bites over the course of the day. I was very sick for a little while as my body readjusted. I think the feeling in the body after bingeing is so much worse than anything I have felt on 5 bites. Anyways just…[Read more]

Hey Gayle! hope you’re able to push through that last plateau. I noticed for myself that I started to self sabotage when I was on the threshold of dropping into the 140s. I had never been there and a part of me just didn’t want to know what it was like to be on the other side of that 150 number. I don’t know what that is really but for myself, I…[Read more]

10/22/18 Mon

Day 1

lunch: cornbread and chili 5 bites

dinner: snickers bar

This frame of mind is so comfortably familiar, it’s nice to feel so certain about what I am doing already. No hunger pangs, energy levels good. I am expecting difficulties over the next two days with energy levels as my body switches over but I suspect that my body…[Read more]

Thanks Gayle! Yeah we are so lucky to have a place to get support. Everywhere else I look that is okay with rapid fat loss is in the ED community which is super unfortunate. I don’t want to pathologize the practice of eating less.

It’s funny, once you lose weight with 5 bite, every other approaching seems unnecessary and time consuming.

Yep I am on it! thanks doc 

Day 0

Hi y’all I am back again. I did a pretty terrible job with going it on my own and managed to gain back all the weight I lost.  I went from 150 back up to 170. I have fiddled with various bite schemes for the last month and a half only to fail miserably. My understanding is that it’s quite easy to lose weight and be disciplined about…[Read more]

I am moving on y’all, thanks for all the help. I will be losing my last 10-15 lbs really slowly with bite counting. I am so grateful for the help and support people have offered me. I will hopefully come back to visit once I am on the other side of my journey. Take care

Hi sharonmarie, yeah I eat a bunch of different things but I tend to have issues by the end of the week. Perhaps it is all psychosomatic and I just need to push through. BIA monitor is a bio-impedance analysis device that measures bodyfat %

Days 48-51

I am currently running through a few different ideas. I don’t like the GI issues I get when I…[Read more]

08/30/18

Day 47

Lunch and dinner was all 5 bites of dried figs.

Started getting some of that familiar orthostatic hypotension while i was at work. Also wobbliness when walking started happening. Decided to eat more. I think i want to shift back over to a previous plan of 3 meals of 10 bites just to make it more sustainable for my active work…[Read more]