Tanya

Right, Jennifer!!  You are in the zone!  Now that you are there, and realizing that those first couple of days of resetting your hungerstat are taxing, don’t change a thing!  For the love of yourself, please, please, please don’t change a thing until you cross the finish line.  It’ll be here before you know it!!!

Exactly.  But don’t fantasize about that achievement; make it happen!  AND, getting there is–dare I say it–fun!  After all, it’s just hunger.  You get five tastes of exquisite bites of food if you desire (but for this next week just Snickers only please), twice a day, and the rest of the time you sit back and let the breathing happen, all the…[Read more]

I love that advice, Chapinj!!

Wow!!!  Thanks Jamie (and others?) for the shoutout!!

Love that!!  Keep up the amazing pace!!!

Again, GREAT JOB, Stephanie!!

Great, great, great!!  

It will!!   Keep up the great work!!

Thanks for the reminder!  

Thanks so much, Jamie!!  These are GREAT tips!!

Indeed.  This is why I like weekly weigh-ins.  Some of the variability inherent in those evil scales gets flushed out over a week’s time.

Like I said, Stefanne, I am totally on-board with you, and I CANNOT WAIT to follow your progress.  This week is going to be SO EXCITING!!!

I think that’s good advice!

Brilliant!!!  You are right on track!  I’m so excited for you, Jamie!!

So sorry everyone–I blanked.  We were in the midst of a Memorial day celebration with my family and my sons’ friends, and I just blanked.  But I won’t next Monday!

I love that!  You are overcoming the food demons and getting a taste of brilliant control.  Keep up the great work!!!

Yes!  It’s far from the most important reason to lose weight, but it’s just one more benefit.

I want you to do what works best for you.  I feel that 5 bites 2x a day is better than 10 bites once a day, but do what you think works best for you and your situation.

Yes.  That’s fine.  The 5BD is just a tool.  A tool that guarantees quick weight loss in as comfortable a manner as possible.  If you need to take a break, fine.  But then you’ll have to go through a few days of hunger as you turn your hungerstat back down to 5 on your next leg of the journey.