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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Congratulations on the weight loss!!!

Now cut down your fruit consumption and snacking and eat real meals. You are keeping your blood sugar elevated all day long (especially with fruit which is full of fructose). Yes, you will lose weight short term eating fruit but keeping your insulin levels up like that daily is bad for you. Plus, fructose goes straight to the liver and makes you store fat.

Just food for thought (pun intended).[/quote]

[quote]I notice that when mentioning your diet, you mention:

banana + water 
fried egg with salt and pepper 
potentially leftovers but usually celery + hummus 
fruit 
nuts

What about dinner? That does not seem like anywhere near enough calories for a person doing any kind of workout. It definitely would not be enough food for me. Did you forget to mention a meal, or were you legit starving yourself for that whole time? If the latter, are you planning on introducing meals again at some point?[/quote]

I'm highlighting both of these posts because I disagree with one and agree with the other.  Snacking through the day, "keeping insulin up", isn't really an issue if your overall calories are very low.  On a very calorie restricted diets, you don't really have to worry too much about macros at all -- VLC diets solve all those problems.  IME and it seems in Jeff's experience too, the easiest, most straightforward way to lose weight, is to stop eating.  When you reach your goal weight, then you go back to eating the right amount of food -- not too much and not too little.

I lost weight last summer by not eating and have maintained since then by returning to a normal diet, eating the proper amount of food in reasonable, moderate macros.

Great weight loss, Jeff!  [/quote]

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