spiderchlome

Days 13 and 14

13 Lunch was 3 bites of almond bar, 2 bites of almond joy from a friend. Dinner was amazing Indian food. I was served a huuge amount of food, sampled a bite from my friend who I was eating with, and the rest from my own entree, then gave him the rest of it without flinching. Felt really physically exhausted as nighttime rolled…[Read more]

Day 12

Lunch and Dinner the same again!

I went to subway and ordered a “kids meal” which means a veggie sub that is about 4″ and a cookie. 3 bites sub, 2 bites cookie and done. Ate dinner at work and threw the rest away in the garbarge since I knew the sandwich would be gross by tomorrow. Felt good to just be done and throw it away.

I used to…[Read more]

Keep at it, yeah I think the checking every day thing can be a trap if you’re not careful. I know I will need to stop that at some point and focus on other milestones.

More like thought for food!  

Lynda said:

“So my observations of watching people obsess over healthy, highly regimented eating and still getting fat AND not enjoying themselves, my instinct says something is not right.”

I completely agree and it is something I did for a long time. The obsession only made things worse and I’d binge on the foods that I craved because a part of…[Read more]

Nice! It feels so good to drop into the next 10ths. I will be dropping into the 150s tomorrow or the next day for the first time in 2 years and I am so excited.

Nice! It feels so good to drop into the next 10ths. I will be dropping into the 150s tomorrow or the next day for the first time in 2 years and I am so excited.

Day 11

Today has been just like any of the other days after the first 3, slightly uncomfortable, foggy when I stand up too quickly, but otherwise completely managable. I even managed to push through a bunch of manual labor chores without any difficulty at all really. The body just feels different. A little harder to move but it will do so if I…[Read more]

killing it! i’m about to eat dinner now myself. I hope I can do as good as you are when I get to 4 weeks

Brush it off and just keep going, focus on the next 5 bites rather than racking up the mistakes you’ve made in the past. Those will only serve to hold you down and make you think you aren’t capable of moving forward. And you are capable since you have done so well too, get up right back on the horse.

I love the simplicity of that. everyone is telling us to do all of these difficult things to lose weight when really it’s about NOT doing something, not eating.

Right? It’s a lot more fun if I think of it like that and also if I can feel that the next milestone is very attainable.

Day 10

This is my first milestone as I was only able to stick to potatoes for 9 days before I had electrolyte difficulties. Though I feel not 100% and riding up a hill on my bike doesn’t feel so easy, I am still functioning pretty well, able to teach. I walked 3 miles today as well. I suppose I cannot expect to be running completely fine barely…[Read more]

I like that, keeps you focused on what the actual sensations are rather than just reacting to them right away.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Yeah i have just been literally “fed up” and thought it would be easier to simplify by taking out all the variables. But i think 5 bites does the simplicity in a more tactful way since i can do it anywhere.</p>

Yeah that’s exactly right, total freedom. I am so fed up with all the other approaches that i think i am in a place psychologically where i’m just ready to be done with dieting forever and i can really see this being it. It’s amazing to have some real hope this time

Day 9

So far so good.

Lunch

I was gonna have more of my impossible burger but gf wanted chipoltle so we qent and i had 4 bites of a soft taco and one of chips. It was nice to completely change things up on the fly without much consideration. I wasn’t bound to any particular food. That feels amazing to have that much flexibility and makes it so…[Read more]

Wow that’s pretty cool you can do that. I guess it really doesn’t matter if you’re still getting your hunger and cravings satisfied

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I will be there too to cheer you on!</p>