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[quote=Anonymous]I have a secret to moderation:  If you are not the kind of person who can do moderation, then stop trying and construct your life so you are all on/off and you will naturally succeed.

I think food is not like, say, clothes shopping or other things.  Food is a very primitive thing, linked to survival and in mammals, females tend to obsess over food like males do over sex.  It has to do with survival of the species.

So, I'm a person who tried food moderation for a long time. What a struggle.  What an obsession to have to count calories or points etc!

Then I found Intermittent Fasting (IF).  OP, if you wean yourself off sugar and grains, and instead eat a high-fat diet consisting of full fat dairy and meat and nuts and veggies, you won't need to keep eating to keep your insulin stable.  Think about non-industrialized cultures...they don't get up and reach for their pancakes...they have nothing until they hunt it down and cook it, or gather it and make it and cook it.  So, one meal a day, in late afternoon, on average.

The added bonus of this is it induces autophagy--in short, your body to spend energy cleaning itself out, rather than on digesting.  This is why people who fast say they can think more clearly.

So after getting rid of grains and added sugars, (say, three weeks after) try not eating from dinner to lunchtime.  Or eat breakfast and lunch but not dinner.  But don't do breakfast and dinner because the idea is to get a long time between meals.

The weight will fall off and you'll glow.  I promise you.  I'm post-menopausal and it totally works. And after you get the hang of it, it's effortless, because, when I'm "off" I'm "off"--no internal willpower struggle. I don't eat until X time.

The way I've made it work (pre-Covid) is that I only eat dinner, however; if I'm going to lunch with someone, I make that lunch my main meal and then skip dinner.  But lots of people do this with two meals, not one.[/quote]

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