An Eating Style Like No Other When We’re Women Losing After 50

Our cavewoman is a party girl who eats, drinks and spends as if you don’t have a mortgage.

Pearl One

Note:  this very cool eating style is meant to be paired with the eating plan you’re already using and the Royal Eating Plan. Even better, add in book-desserts.

I once knew of a woman who wanted to be thin so badly she fantasized about going to the hospital and being knocked unconscious for six months and fed through an IV drip. Her plan was to wake up thin.

She wasn’t serious of course, but if this fantasy were legal, I think we’d have lines out the door and around the corner with those ready for the Sleep Thin experience. (I’d be at the head of the line.)

From this woman’s IV drip idea came my Drip, Drip, Drip way of eating.

What I’m about to share is a power-tool for those times when you need a little something extra to get you back in the swing of the Smart Eating Lifestyle.

Here’s How I do It

I start in the morning and have what I want to eat for breakfast the only two rules being that one, I must be finished eating by 9:00 a.m. and two, I couldn’t overeat breakfast so that I’m not truly hungry at lunch.

The plan is to eat every hour on the hour throughout your day and evening. So from 10 a.m. , 11 a.m., Noon and so forth all the way to 6 p.m.

Do this often enough and I think you’ll find what I found. Planning to eat every single hour wasn’t really necessary. I came to see that two hours between meals and small meals (snacks) was more than enough.

When I was trying to rein myself in, the Drip, Drip, Drip method had my back times a thousand.

This style of eating doesn’t just get us back on the smart path, it’s also marks the beginning of our first foray into having a conversation with our stomach. It’s an interesting back and forth that can result in your enormous human brain and your stomach getting on the same page. I use this method anytime I think I’ve gone too far afield. ♥

Pearl Two

The cavewoman refers to our survival instinct – some call it the lizard brain – who comes to life when we’re hungry. It’s the part of us who can’t eat one cookie, we need to eat the entire sleeve. Our cavewoman eats out of her grand kid’s trick-or-treat bag. She goes completely nuts when she’s out with the girls having a second strawberry margarita because yum. She drains savings accounts, she “forgets” to gas up the car, and she stays up late into the night reading. Our prefrontal brain watches in dismay as the cavewoman “lives her best life.” Once the cavewoman finally goes to sleep, the prefrontal brain cleans up the cavewoman’s many messes.

• Do you know what triggers your cavewoman and brings her to life? (Give three example or twenty-three examples.)
• How do you keep your cavewoman snoozing happily and not bothering you?
• How do you rebound after your cavewoman goes wild? How do you put her back to sleep.
• It’s the prefrontal part of our brain that deliver the results we most want. If you want to thank someone for your success, thank your enormous prefrontal.
• Can you feel the difference of your cavewoman (lives to eat, spend, and lounge) and your prefrontal (all business, being responsible and keeping order).
• Can you tell when you’re in one mode vs. the other?
• If your prefrontal could talk, what would she tell you?
• What scares your prefrontal
• What does she most want you to know?
• Can you tell when you’re in one mode vs. the other?
• If your prefrontal could talk, what would she tell you?
• What scares your prefrontal What does she most want you to know? ♥

Pearl Three

Sequencing is taken directly from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The purpose of sequences is to help us move from reacting to circumstances to responding. I encourage you to do a sequence a day in your journal. Powerful stuff. Apply to your own life.

Knee-jerk Sequence

• Situation (very concrete): Your grandchild asks you to switch to a new app for family photos and messaging.
• Initial thought: “Oh, Lord. I’m so tired of learning new technology. Plus I much prefer to keep my information private.”
• Feeling: Annoyed at the very thought of learning more tech.
• Action: Tells her family, “I don’t think that would work very well for me. You know I’m a dinosaur, right?”
• Result: She asks her family to communicate in the style they’d all used in the past.

Chosen Sequence

• Situation (very concrete): Your grandchild asks you to switch to a new app for family photos and messaging.
• Chosen Thought:  Learning new tech to keep up with my grand kids is worth the annoyance.
• Feeling: Love for my family.
• Action: Researches the app and how it works, all the while telling herself, take it slow, we’ll figure this out. I don’t have to learn this all at once.
• Result: The whole family is on one app. ♥

Pearl Four

I have a delicious book-dessert for you today! Daughters of Shandong is a gripping historical novel set during the chaos of 1948 China. It follows a mother and three sisters as they navigate war, displacement, and danger, making a harrowing journey from Shandong to Hong Kong and eventually Taiwan. Eve J. Chung’s debut is a powerful story of courage, resilience, and the strength of family bonds. It’s based on her family’s experience. A don’t miss book-dessert. ♥

Pearl Five

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb ♥

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