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[quote=Anonymous]I am now 77.  By the time I reached my sixties, my weight topped out at 176, way too much for a 5'4" woman.  So I decided to get it back down to under 140.  And I did, by losing about one pound per month.  I cut back on the size of my portions and gave up sweets almost entirely.  I kept a rough track of my calories, and also weighed myself every three or four days to make sure I was still on the right track.  Gradually, my appetite decreased and I found it easier and easier not to overeat

And guess what happened next?  I figured that if I could get down to 140, why not lose another 20ibs?  So I  did that slowly over the next few years.  I have successfully maintained that weight for the last five or six years.  I'm very happy about the way I look and feel.  And I have more energy than I did 15 years ago.

So I'm a firm believer in slow weight loss.  If you need to lose a significant amount of weight and you do it too quickly, you'll feel you're being deprived of the foods you love, and almost always, your weight will go back up again.  If you have the patience to do it slowly, you will be successful.  It's as simple as that.[/quote]

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