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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look into intermittent fasting.  It has worked wonders for me.  I've lost the hard-to-lose weight and I really feel fantastic.

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My mother did this for about a year.  Worked wonders for her.  And now she is MUCH more mindful about what she eats.  She's not rail thin, never will be, but did learn she has to keep her calories under control to keep weight from piling on.  The good part about it is that every time she wanted something on a fasting day, she knew she could have it tomorrow.  Usually when tomorrow rolled around, she didn't want it anymore.  That really helped her make the mind-mouth connection of how much we eat when we're bored or just because we feel like it.[/quote]

This was very much my experience as well.  And bonus- it couldn't be cheaper![/quote]

OP. Can you tell me about this?[/quote]

There are different ways to do it.  You can find detailed guidelines online.

I have done it a couple of ways, depending on what my lifestyle is like at the time.  There is every other day fasting, where you eat normally one day, keep your calories around 500 the next, and then normally again the next.  Another method is blocking out a window of time where you don't eat every day.  For me, the best way to do that was to have my normal coffee every morning and then eat nothing until dinner, when I would eat a healthy dinner but not overdo the calories.

A couple of pros to every other day fasting- you don't feel so deprived on fast days when you know you're off the hook the next day, and you can finagle your on/off days so that you have off days when you want them (eating out with family, holidays, etc.)

Doing the time block method on a daily basis is good in that you can have a normal dinner with your family every evening.  For me it means fewer off days, though.[/quote]

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