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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's my pet theory: a person wakes up in the morning with a certain amount of willpower. If you are using your willpower on working/being patient with your kids/doing household chores etc., you don't have any left for diet/exercise. Also, when you are single and dieting, you just keep all the crap out of the house. When you have kids, you are surrounded by normal kid food.[/quote]

Yes, this is one of the premises of Bright Line Eating. It makes a lot of sense. [/quote]

I was just reading about Bright Line Eating, and so much resonates with me. I'm sure the critics will use the "everything in moderation" argument. Are you following the plan?[/quote]

OP here. I did Bright Line Eating for a few months. It's supposed to help with the decision fatigue and make eating more of a rote thing instead of something to always be thinking about. I only lasted a few months because you do have to weigh and measure your portions of the foods you're eating and that gets tough for me to stick with. It adds to the time it takes for me to prep food, and then I start resenting the practice and stop doing it. I lost maybe 2 pounds in over 2 months and it just didn't seem worth it to spend that much time weighing and measuring for that little payoff. The idea of the plan really did resonate with me as well, but I found that I was spending more time thinking about food than how I typically ate and that made it harder for me to push back cravings since I was thinking about food so often, if that makes any sense. I think it's good for anyone who really struggles with eating too many carbs and then craving those carbs. It has a strict policy of no flour and no flour substitutes for that reason, but I don't really have a problem with those foods. [/quote]

I'm the PP above who asked about the plan - thank you. My comment about "everything in moderation" is because I do believe that for some people, eliminating certain foods - sometimes forever - is the way to go. At a glance the food plans don't look particularly low carb and include oatmeal, beans, etc. I can understand how weighing food and never snacking between meals can be hard to adhere to! And it must take up a ton of mental bandwidth, which seems counterproductive.[/quote]

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