The documentary-style weight loss method enters its accelerated phase: Listen to your body and achieve transformation.

Step 5: Acceleration Again – Listen to Your Body

In this acceleration phase, the record-keeping weight loss program is finally nearing its final stage. It turns out that sticking to a diet can even change your taste buds!

Being able to gradually discover your body's cravings is already preparing you for the final "on track" stage.

Having successfully lost a lot of weight during the lift-off and ascent phases, you've now reached the cruising phase while maintaining nutritional balance.

The agonizing 75th day has passed peacefully, and with a little more exercise, you easily overcame the plateau.

Gradually, many people have asked, "You've really lost so much weight! How did you do it?" My own experience is that whenever I see food, I reflexively calculate its calories. No matter what food I'm eating, I always feel like I can see the calorie count on the side. I wish I had a magical gadget that could instantly read calorie values.

I rarely eat many of the calorie-free foods I used to buy, such as pepper-flavored or plum-flavored konjac noodles, or low-calorie foods like vermicelli I ate as a late-night snack. Even without relying on these, you can still enjoy each day within a restricted calorie intake.

If you can reach this state, you'll unknowingly enter a re-acceleration phase.

The most obvious sign is a significant change in your preferences.

For example, before I started dieting, I drank three or four bottles of Coke every day. Even during the re-acceleration phase, I still drank two or three bottles of calorie-free Diet Coke a day.

When traveling for business and staying in hotels, I would habitually buy Coke at the convenience store and drink it back in my room. Even when I was consciously trying to lose weight and drinking 2 liters of water a day, I still drank Coke as an extra beverage, which surprised me.

However, one day, I suddenly realized I hadn't drunk any carbonated drinks for several days. It wasn't that I didn't like them anymore, but I realized, "Come to think of it, I haven't had any lately." Once I realized this, I started drinking them again. But each time, I only took a sip or two, satisfied my craving, then put the lid back on and put it in the refrigerator. When I wanted to drink it again, I would take it out of the refrigerator and drink a little more. One bottle lasts me almost a whole day.

Initially, I ate boiled vegetables and seaweed for nutritional balance, but lately I find them quite delicious. Even soy milk and vegetable juice, which I didn't used to like, now taste good.

If I decide I want a McDonald's double cheeseburger, I limit my calorie intake from the morning before eating it. It's tasty, but not as delicious as I imagined; eating a third is enough, and I discard the rest.

When I told my doctor about these changes, he said, "That's wonderful! Even your favorite foods have changed."

Really? It turns out that sticking to a diet can even change your tastes!

These changes aren't just about taste; they're a precursor to something much bigger.

In this accelerated phase, my diet tracking is finally nearing its final stage.