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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 5’3” and went from 150 to 110. It took me a good 10 months. I was focused solely on weight loss so I did not increase my exercise- that would have just made me hungry and been self sabotage. I did intermittent fasting, and essentially cut out breakfast. I drank a ton of water and ate at a strict calorie deficit. 1200 calories a day, split into two 600 calorie meals of lunch and dinner. No snacks. Tried to sleep more, going to bed early kept me from snacking.

It definitely sucked and I felt hungry a lot. But I figured that’s the feeling of my body shedding some fat and just powered through. I’ve been maintaining this weight for 3 years now. It was all previously baby weight, which probably helped. My last baby was 9 months when I started, so it’s not like my body had been carrying this weight for a long time and was used to it.

I feel so much better now that I’m back to a reasonable weight. Feel years younger, truly. [/quote]

Are you still hungry all the time?[/quote]

No, I’m not. I still don’t really eat breakfast, but I use sugar and cream in my coffee and eat an earlier lunch. I’ve found maintenance reasonably easy. I just am strict about not snacking after dinner, filling up on water and vegetables, and weighing myself regularly so my weight doesn’t creep up without knowing.

Getting in the mindset of adding good things into my diet - water and vegetables - was such a good shift. I don’t have to axe desserts because I naturally eat a reasonable portion when I’ve just had a filling healthy meal. It sounds so trite, but I think the “French women don’t get fat” book was onto something. Good real food, limited snacking, and you can have some bread and cheese and chocolate, just not too much.

This all assumes you are healthy no hormone problems, etc. of course. [/quote]

It sounds like you are doing all the right things. It's a slow process.[/quote]

It is a slow process. I had bad gestational diabetes with each of my three pregnancies. I’m sure I have insulin resistance now, that was greatly exacerbated by the extra weight I was carrying after kids. Even though I was never technically obese, I was certainly suffering from the fat gain. I had skin tags and facial hair. Losing the weight has reversed all those symptoms.

I really hope I can maintain it, I feel so much better. I know a lot of it was just the postpartum fog (I had three kids in 4.5 years, with a 12 week miscarriage in there too). But I feel years younger now. Being big and slow and sleeping and eating poorly was no way to live. Good luck. [/quote]

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